Flamanville, France (AFP) Oct 14, 2007 - On a strip of France's Channel coast, cranes, trucks and cement silos are hard at work preparing the world's most powerful nuclear reactor and showcase of French atomic savoir-faire.
Tallinn (AFP) Oct 11, 2007 - Estonian authorities said Thursday they had finished rebuilding a secure facility meant to prevent potential leaks from two mothballed nuclear reactors and radioactive waste left by the Soviet navy.
Vilnius (AFP) Oct 10, 2007 - The leaders of Poland and Lithuania Wednesday dismissed suggestions that a dispute over sharing output from a new nuclear power plant was hampering a related accord on linking their power grids.
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 9, 2007 - Tensions in India over a civil nuclear pact with Washington that threaten the survival of the country's ruling coalition worsened on Monday ahead of a visit by the UN's atomic energy chief.
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 9, 2007 - A crisis in India's coalition appeared to ease Tuesday after politicians agreed to more talks on a nuclear energy pact with the United States that has threatened to tear the government apart.
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 9, 2007 - India, Brazil and South Africa will hold a summit next week in Johannesburg to bolster ties among the three emerging powerhouses and review deadlocked global trade talks, an official said Tuesday.
Bucharest (AFP) Oct 5, 2007 - Romania wants to build a second nuclear power station after the Cernavoda plant in the southeast of the country, to ensure its future independence in energy supply, Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu said on Friday.
Vilnius (AFP) Oct 5, 2007 - Poland said Friday that it wants the lion's share of the output of a new nuclear power plant that it plans to build in a joint project with the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 5, 2007 - India's ruling Congress party made little progress in fresh talks Friday with its communist allies with whom it is locked in a bitter row over a nuclear deal with the United States, its leaders said.
Bucharest (AFP) Oct 2, 2007 - Around 30 groups are interested in taking part in a project to build the third and fourth reactors of the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in south-east Romania, Nuclearelectrica said Tuesday, three weeks ahead of a bid deadline.
Vilnius (AFP) Oct 2, 2007 - The Baltic states and Poland are next week likely to ink a deal to build a new nuclear power plant to replace Lithuania's ageing Ignalina facility, Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas said Tuesday.
London (AFP) Oct 1, 2007 - Police arrested more than 170 anti-nuclear protestors Monday as they gathered for the culmination of a year-long campaign at a nuclear submarine base on the west coast of Scotland.
Madrid (AFP) Oct 1, 2007 - Electricite de France, Europe's biggest power generator, hopes to build its first nuclear plant in the United States in 2015, the chief executive of the French state-owned company said Monday.
Madrid (AFP) Oct 1, 2007 - Leaders of the European Union and the bloc's major energy firms urged member states on Monday to consider making greater use of nuclear power at a conference held in Spain.
Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2007 - Deals to build nuclear power plants in Yemen and Jordan have come sooner than many expected, but a lack of funding and internal violence could derail those plans before they ever get off the ground.
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.
