Ankara (AFP) Nov 9, 2007 - Overriding stiff objections from environmentalists and opposition parties, the Turkish parliament passed a bill Friday fixing the legal framework for the country's first nuclear power plants.
Kinshasa (AFP) Nov 9, 2007 - Police have arrested seven people, including law enforcement officers, over the pouring of radioactive mineral waste into a river in the southeast DR Congo, Environment Minister Didace Pembe said Friday.
Ljubljana (AFP) Nov 7, 2007 - A Slovenian nuclear plant in the southestern city of Krsko was fully operational again on Wednesday after being shut down for a month for routine maintenance work.
Tehran (AFP) Nov 7, 2007 - Iran has built a landmark 3,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Wednesday, despite international pressure to halt its atomic work.
Kinshasa (AFP) Nov 7, 2007 - Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have opened a probe after nearly 18 tonnes of radioactive minerals from primarily Chinese-owned mines were dumped in a river, officials said Wednesday.
Troy NY (SPX) Nov 05, 2007 - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is leading a $3 million research project that will pair two of the world's most powerful supercomputers to boost the safety and reliability of next-generation nuclear power reactors. The three-year project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, will call upon a diverse team of researchers and institutions to create highly detailed computer models of a new proposed type of nuclear reactor.
Manila (AFP) Nov 5, 2007 - A South Korean company has opened exploratory talks with the Philippine government on the possibility of reactivating the country's mothballed Bataan nuclear power plant, a company official said.
Cairo (AFP) Nov 3, 2007 - Egypt has emerged at the forefront of a new push by Arab nations to build nuclear power plants in the volatile Middle East even as the West is locked in a standoff with Iran over its atomic drive.
Tallinn (AFP) Nov 2, 2007 - EU members should use nuclear power as a tool to reduce reliance on outside energy suppliers, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said Friday, amid concern over Russia's political use of its market clout.
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 31, 2007 - TEPCO, the world's biggest private electricity supplier, said Wednesday it expected to go into the red this year for the first time in nearly three decades after an earthquake shut down a nuclear plant.
Sanaa (AFP) Oct 30, 2007 - The Yemeni government announced on Tuesday that it was scrapping a contract with the US firm Powered Corp to build five nuclear reactors at an estimated cost of 15 billion dollars.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 30, 2007 - The research and development component of the U.S. Department of Energy's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), a program that aims to reprocess spent nuclear fuel which could then be shared with partner countries, should not go forward at its current pace, says a new report from the National Research Council. DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy, of which GNEP is a part, should instead assign the highest priority to facilitating the startup of new commercial nuclear power plants, a program that is currently falling behind schedule due to funding gaps.
Rheinsberg, Germany (AFP) Oct 30, 2007 - The core of a nuclear reactor from the former East Germany on Tuesday began a 300-kilometre (190-mile) train journey to a storage site amid protests by environmentalists.
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 30, 2007 - Japan and resource-rich South Africa agreed Tuesday to cooperate in the production of rare metals such as platinum and cobalt, officials said.
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 30, 2007 - India's prime minister said Tuesday he was still trying to push forward a nuclear energy deal with the United States that has been blocked by his sceptical coalition partners.
Manipal, India (UPI) Oct 29, 2007 - The failure by the Indian government to win parliamentary approval for its nuclear agreement with the Bush administration is being widely explained in the United States as an essentially political problem caused by the left and the Communist party, on whose vote the government of Manmohan Singh depends. This explanation is flawed.
