Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Thursday defended his government's decision to lift a ban on uranium sales to India, likening it to plans to sell the nuclear fuel to China.
The United States will scrap a landmark deal to export civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India if New Delhi conducts an atomic weapons test, the State Department said Tuesday.
While Western attention focuses on the rising oil and natural gas potential of Caspian states, rising energy player Kazakhstan has another energy asset up its sleeve: uranium.
US President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday discussed the controversial US-India civilian nuclear energy agreement, the White House said.
Damage at the world's largest nuclear plant in Japan, which was hit by a powerful earthquake last month, appears less than expected, the UN nuclear watchdog said Tuesday.
A veteran congressman on Monday branded a landmark US civilian nuclear deal with India as a "capitulation" to New Delhi and demanded details on Indian ties with Iran.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday defended a controversial civilian nuclear accord with the United States, saying it would not affect the nation's military programme or any plans to test atomic weapons.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy denied on Monday France planned to sell a latest generation nuclear reactor to Libya.
Japan's Toshiba Corp. said Monday that it has agreed to sell 10 percent of US nuclear power plant maker Westinghouse Electric to Kazakhstan's state-run energy company Kazatomprom for 540 million dollars.
India's prime minister has dared the government's communist allies to withdraw their support if they are unhappy with the landmark Indo-US nuclear technology deal, a report said Saturday.
Russia's nuclear equipment export monopoly Atomstroyexport confirmed Tuesday it will commission the second unit of China's Tianwan nuclear power plant in September.
Construction of Finland's new nuclear reactor, the world's first third-generation plant, is now more than 18 months behind schedule owing to fresh building problems, Finnish energy company TVO said on Friday.
UN inspectors said Friday that the world's largest nuclear plant in Japan will be closed for months, weeks after being hit by an earthquake.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will grant Ukraine 330 million euros (about $460 mln) to secure the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to prevent radioactive leaks, the emergencies ministry said.
A Japanese nuclear plant was hit Thursday by the latest in a series of suspicious small-scale fires, the operator said, amid rising public concern about the country's nuclear industry.
Staring at the few carefree teenagers frolicking about in the water, beach worker Hitoshi Arakawa was full of resentment over a leak at a nearby nuclear plant.
