Japan will fast-track the restart of some nuclear reactors, the regulator said on Wednesday, potentially breaking a logjam that has kept the country without nuclear power in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster. ...

The Energy Department is poised to approve $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees for the first nuclear power plants built from scratch in this country in more than three decades. ...

GOLDMAN Sachs and Deutsche Bank are quietly trying to get out of a business few people know they are even in: trading supplies of raw uranium known as yellowcake. ...

Describing a strong earthquake that hit northern Taiwan on Wednesday as a warning, environmental groups yesterday urged the government not to consider extending the retirement schedule of the nation’s operational nuclear power plants. ...

South Korea's nuclear safety commission on Friday reported a set of measures to enhance the safety of the country's reactors that will include heavier fines for safety-related crimes. ...

South Africa’s government will push ahead with plans to develop new nuclear power plants as it seeks to reduce its reliance on coal, President Jacob Zuma said. ...

Paraguay has instructed its ambassador in Buenos Aires to collect information on Argentina's plans to set up a uranium processing plant in the northern province of Formosa neighbouring with the land-locked country. ...

Researchers at a laboratory in California say they've had a breakthrough in producing fusion power with a giant laser. The success comes after years of struggling to get the laser to work, and is another step in the decades-long quest for fusion energy. ...

The Fukushima disaster has left nuclear power with a serious PR problem. But as Terry Krieg argues, nuclear is efficient, clean and much safer than people think. He explains why Australia needs to keep the nuclear ace up its sleeve. ...

Turkey’s first nuclear power plant has hit further delays that will push back the start of production by almost a year after Turkish authorities requested resubmission of an environmental report, industry sources and experts said. ...