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Unit 3 of the Genkai nuclear power plant was scheduled to be restarted today having been partly loaded with mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies. The move marks the first ever use of the fuel in Japan.

Areva has delivered two steam generators for unit 1 of Exelon's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Philadelphia. It took eight weeks to transport the components from the manufacturing site in France.

Jordan and Canada signed a cooperation agreement on 17 February covering the peaceful use of nuclear energy, the Jordan's Petra news agency reported. The agreement was signed in Amman by Khalid Touqan, president of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) and Canada's ambassador to Jordan Margaret...

A joint venture company has been established by Luminant and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to support the construction of the latter's advanced pressurized water reactor at Comanche Peak in Texas.

Energy leaders at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, have debated whether low oil prices could slow investment in new fossil fuel supplies, as well as in alternative energy supplies. The head of EdF suggested now is the time to invest in nuclear energy...

France will start work on a second new reactor in 2012 at Penly. The new nuclear unit will be partly owned by oil and gas giant GdF-Suez. Enel and Total also look like likely investors.

Kazakhstan - the world's third biggest major uranium supplier, after Canada and Australia - reported a 28.5% increase in uranium production during 2008. The increase is in line with Kazakhstan's plan to become the world's leading uranium supplier.

Slovakia is preparing the Bohunice V1 unit 2 reactor for recommissioning less than two weeks after it was closed. The plant could be restarted within days unless gas flows from Russia resume, Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico has said.

The continuing squeeze on gas supplies in Europe has led a utility president to declare "The only long run solution for Italy is nuclear energy." A minister said that the "shortsightedness of the past" has put Italy at risk.

[Reuters, 28 November] Nuclear power will play a key role in helping the European Union (EU) cut its dependence on fossil fuels and secure future energy supplies, the EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn told a conference in Finland. He said, "Nuclear energy will have a prominent role in leading...

The European Commission has published its second Strategic Energy Review, proposing a wide-ranging energy package that gives a new boost to energy security in Europe, supporting the '20-20-20' climate change proposals.

[BBC Monitoring, 10 November] According to a report on Croatia's HRT1 TV, the country will soon make a decision on whether to construct a nuclear power plant. Just three weeks ago, the prime minister, Ivo Sanader, said that the government had examined several energy options and preferred those not...

The UK public is increasingly concerned about energy supplies and support for nuclear energy is growing as a means of both meeting future demand and reducing emissions, according to a poll commissioned by EDF Energy.

An expert panel is to advise the government of Saskatchewan on developing its nuclear industry. The Canadian province is already a leading exporter of uranium.

Ed Miliband, the new energy and climate change minister, has said there must be investment in nuclear power if the UK is to meet its new 80% greenhouse gas emissions reduction target by 2050.

A new report details the levels of US taxpayer support given to various energy forms since 1950. Fossil fuels have received far more than nuclear power, which was the only source to actually pay back to government.

Australia's Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union thinks residents of Queensland would rather work in a coal mine than a nuclear power plant. The union's mining division has begun an advertising campaign featuring glum-looking miners and the slogan, "Nuclear power will kill the coal...

Support for the construction of more nuclear power plants in the US state of California has grown over the past two decades, with half of Californians now in favour, according to a recent poll.

Al Gore has called on the American people to switch to 100% low-carbon electricity within ten years. The plan relies on nuclear energy, but Gore chooses to give the headlines to renewables.

At a summit 'for the Mediterranean' hosted in the French capital, the leaders from 27 nations around the sea and from the European Union convened. Energy strategy was a key topic.

G8 leaders are seeking a global target of a 50% cut of carbon emissions by 2050, but have stopped short of an outright endorsement of nuclear energy as a means of tackling climate change.

The House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus has passed the second reading of a bill on nuclear power. The bill covers "fundamental principles" for the introduction of nuclear power and declares that benefits to citizens and society must outweigh any negative impacts of...

Recommendations on a post-2012 framework for global climate policy, backed by international business leaders, have been submitted by the World Economic Forum to the G8 leaders. The businessmen see advanced nuclear power as part of the solution.

Figures from the IAEA show that nuclear power generation worldwide was 50 TWh lower in 2007 than in 2006, at 2608 TWh, mainly due to outages in three countries.