India cannot afford to lag behind developed nations in nuclear energy, the country's prime minister said Friday as he battled opposition from communist allies to an atomic deal with the US.
India's foreign minister said Thursday that the Congress party-led government would set up a committee to review objections by communist allies to a controversial nuclear deal with the United States.
A senior Russian nuclear official said Tuesday that a deal is likely to be signed with the United States this fall on the civilian use of nuclear power.
King Abdullah II called Sunday for Jordan's drive to set up a civilian nuclear programme to be accelerated in order to wean the desert country off oil and gas imports.
An earthquake last month that forced the closure of the world's largest nuclear plant in Japan was about 2.7 times stronger than the maximum considered in the plant's design guidelines, a report said Sunday.
India's Prakash Karat, the Communist Party leader who wants to halt an Indo-US nuclear deal, is an old school Marxist but his methods have so far proven highly effective, plunging the government into crisis.
Nuclear safety issues are expected to feature prominently in talks among Southeast Asian ministers here Thursday as more countries look to nuclear as an alternative energy amid soaring oil prices, diplomatic sources said.
Japan's largest power company said Tuesday it is preparing to take emergency measures to address an imminent power shortage due to the suspension of a giant nuclear plant following an earthquake.
A nuclear cooperation accord between India and the United States was billed as historic for bringing New Delhi into the nuclear fold and delivering energy security, but it may now threaten the Indian government.
The Indian government indicated it would push ahead with a controversial Indo-US nuclear deal despite strong objections from its communist allies, the Press Trust of India reported on Tuesday.
Russia will supply up to 1,000 megawatts of electricity to Lithuania while the Ignalina nuclear power plant is being repaired, electricity monopoly Unified Energy System (UES) said Friday.
Yemen's energy minister said on Sunday that international companies would build a nuclear reactor in the impoverished Arabian peninsula state, the official Saba news agency reported.
A top US official has said a controversial nuclear pact with New Delhi cannot be renegotiated amid demands from Indian critics for a radical reworking of the deal.
Prime Minister John Howard on Friday defended Australia's landmark deal to sell uranium to nuclear power India, saying its safeguards were as strong as the international anti-proliferation treaty.
Australia is close to signing a deal to supply uranium to Russia for civilian purposes which could be completed next month, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Friday.
Far from the everyday world occupied by such common elements such as gold and lead lies a little-understood realm inhabited by radioactive, or unstable, elements.
