Sofia (AFP) Dec 13, 2007 - Bulgaria will be forced to import electricity soon as it is experiencing energy shortages after partially closing its only nuclear power plant at Kozloduy last year, the daily Trud reported Thursday.
Paris (AFP) Dec 10, 2007 - France signed an agreement Monday to supply one or more nuclear reactors to Libya at a ceremony hosted by President Nicolas Sarkozy for visiting Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, the French presidency said.
Sofia (AFP) Dec 7, 2007 - The Bulgarian government welcomed Friday a decision by the European Commission to give the go-ahead to plans to build a new nuclear plant at Belene on the Danube.
Brasilia (AFP) Dec 4, 2007 - The head of the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA Mohamed ElBaradei will arrive in Brazil Wednesday for a visit to an uranium enrichment plant due to start selling fuel in 2010.
Montreal (AFP) Dec 3, 2007 - The Canadian province of Ontario is preparing to invest tens of billions of dollars in the modernization of its nuclear industry, a project that promises a windfall for international industry leaders.
Seoul (AFP) Dec 2, 2007 - South Korea is proposing to use North Korean nuclear fuel rods, to be removed from a reactor under a six-nation disarmament deal, for South Korean power plants, a news report said Sunday.
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 1, 2007 - The world's largest nuclear plant in central Japan, which was shut in July after a major earthquake, will not be able to resume operation for at least two years, a top government expert said Saturday.
Moscow (AFP) Nov 30, 2007 - UN nuclear officials on Friday completed five days of inspections of the first consignment of Russian fuel for Iran's nuclear power plant at Bushehr, a statement from the fuel factory said.
Nice, France (AFP) Nov 30, 2007 - French energy group EDF and Italian counterpart Enel said Friday they had reached agreement to enable Enel to take part in the development of a third generation nuclear reactor in France.
Hanford WA (SPX) Nov 28, 2007 - Millions of gallons of hazardous waste resulting from the nation¿s nuclear weapons program lie in a remote location in southeastern Washington state called Hanford. Beneath this desert landscape about two million curies of radioactivity and hundreds of thousands of tons of chemicals are captured within the stratified vadose zone below which gives rise to complex subsurface flow paths.
Ankara (AFP) Nov 28, 2007 - Turkish authorities are expected to invite bids for the construction of the country's first nuclear power plant in February, Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said Wednesday.
Cadarache, France (AFP) Nov 28, 2007 - The head of a project aimed to test whether nuclear fusion, the massive energy source that drives the sun, can be a viable power source on earth signed an 80-million-dollar supply contract with a Japanese firm Wednesday.
Argonne IL (SPX) Nov 27, 2007 - The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is taking its nuclear energy research into new territory - virtual territory that is. With the recent arrival of the new IBM Blue Gene/P and the lab's development of advanced computer models, Argonne has a critical role in making it possible to burn repeatedly nuclear fuel that now sits as waste, thus closing the nuclear fuel cycle and reducing the risk of nuclear proliferation.
London (AFP) Nov 26, 2007 - British Prime Minster Gordon Brown revealed Monday that a decision on the construction of new power stations would be announced at the start of next year.
Beijing (AFP) Nov 26, 2007 - France's Areva announced here Monday it had agreed to deliver two third-generation nuclear reactors to energy-hungry China as part of a package of deals worth eight billion euros (11.9 billion dollars).
Bratislava (AFP) Nov 26, 2007 - Around 100 politicians, industrialists, producers and experts met in Bratislava Monday for the first European Energy Forum dedicated to reviving nuclear power as an alternative energy source.
