New Delhi (AFP) Sept 19, 2007 - India's ruling Congress party held a new round of tense talks Wednesday with its communist allies, who are trying to block a nuclear energy deal with the United States, its leaders said.
Bangui (AFP) Sept 19, 2007 - The Central African Republic criticized Wednesday French nuclear group Areva's purchase of a uranium mining operation in the country's east.
Vienna (AFP) Sept 18, 2007 - South Africa is holding off on joining a US-led initiative to spread atomic power because it does not want to give up its right to enrich uranium, a senior South African official said Tuesday.
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 18, 2007 - Communist allies of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh issued a fresh warning Tuesday against implementing a controversial civilian nuclear deal with the United States.
Paris (AFP) Sept 18, 2007 - The head of French nuclear company Areva plans to pay a working visit to China soon as the company awaits confirmation of two contracts for third-generation EPRs (European Pressurised water Reactors), Areva said on Tuesday.
Hanoi (AFP) Sept 17, 2007 - Vietnam has sent a shipment of highly enriched uranium used at its Soviet-built Dalat research reactor to Russia as part of a fuel conversion plan agreed with the United States, an official said Monday.
Kiev (AFP) Sept 17, 2007 - French consortium Novarka signed a contract Monday with Ukraine to shut away the radioactive heart of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster with a multi-million-euro protective cover designed to last a hundred years.
Vienna (AFP) Sept 16, 2007 - Eleven countries joined Sunday a US-led initiative to spread atomic power but not technology which can be used to make nuclear weapons.
Tehran (AFP) Sept 16, 2007 - Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said talks with Russia over the much delayed completion of Iran's first nuclear power station are making progress, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.
Washington (UPI) Sep 14, 2007 - The idea of using nuclear-powered desalination plants is becoming popular in the Middle East and North Africa, where tension over water rights has gone on for millennia, but it is controversial, and without significant foreign assistance it may turn out to be a mirage.
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 13, 2007 - Thailand's energy minister on Thursday urged the nation's next government to press ahead with a proposed six-billion-dollar nuclear power project to safeguard the national energy supply.
Vienna (AFP) Sept 12, 2007 - The UN nuclear watchdog was reviewing Wednesday new measures for inspections in Iran, with Western nations warning that Tehran must still halt activities that could be used to make atom bombs.
Washington (AFP) Sept 12, 2007 - North Korea has given full access to experts from the United States, Russia and China on a rare visit to the reclusive nation to examine ways to disable its nuclear weapons program, the State Department said Wednesday.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 12, 2007 - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Russia's nuclear chief, Sergei Kiriyenko, held talks in Moscow on Wednesday as the Islamic republic tried to salvage the stalled construction of its first atomic power station.
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 11, 2007 - India's parliament adjourned early Monday following the stalling of proceedings by opposition MPs protesting a controversial nuclear deal with the United States, an official said.
Vienna (AFP) Sept 11, 2007 - UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei walked out on an afternoon session Tuesday of his IAEA to protest an EU speech which did not fully support his deal for new inspections in Iran, diplomats told AFP.
