Up to half the European Union's Ecu145bn a year electricity supply market could be open to competition by the turn of the century - well above the minimum requirements of EU legislation - according

South Korean and U.S. officials remained apart on the issue of how to finance the light-water reactor project in North Korea during their talks yesterday. Seoul officials have been embarrassed by

China has started work on four large nuclear power stations, which are expected to increase the proportion of power coming from nuclear power and to reduce

The new leader of the nuclear ministry in Russia has proposed building a research reactor in Iran in addition to the atomic energy plant under construction there has drawn protests from Israel and

The explosion at a Ukrainian coal mine which killed 63 people at the weekend was a sad reminder of the decrepit state of the country's energy sector. The day before the blast, the European Bank for

The power sector in Jammu and Kashmir is set for privatisation with the state government having signed four memoranda of understanding with foreign companies to set up power projects in the

Russia's acting nuclear energy minister has asked the U.S. government to return to the original bilateral deal under which Russia sold uranium from dismantled nuclear warheads to the U.S. In 1993,

A three-day International Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition is being organised at Delhi from Tuesday to highlight issues relating to the upstream petroleum

Technicians at the world's largest nuclear plant shut down a reactor after a pump controlling power generation stopped working. There was no danger of a radiation leak from the trouble, a spokeman

Despite the continuing controversy over Enron's participation the promoters of the 513-MW Kannur power project in Kerala are confident of getting the final go-ahead shortly and taking up