Russian President Dmitry Medvedev goes to Germany to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel with a stronger hand than ever to win a long-held aim: closer access to consumers in the biggest market for Russian gas.

The host nation is Russia's third-largest trading partner and the biggest buyer of Russian gas, but the relationship has intensified since Germany announced the phaseout of nuclear power by 202

Japan's centre-left Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Wednesday the country must gradually reduce its reliance on atomic power with the eventual goal of becoming nuclear-free. Four months after the March 11 quake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima nuclear accident, the world's worst since Chernobyl 25 years ago, Mr.

Facing immense political pressure over continuing civil nuclear crisis, the Naoto Kan government on Wednesday ordered a new form of

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New Delhi A day after outgoing US ambassador Timothy J Roemer stressed that Washington was firmly committed to the Nuclear Suppliers Group

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman Srikumar Banerjee said here on Friday that nuclear power production was safe, given the stringent regulatory mechanism put in place.

He was speaking at the 52nd convocation of Sri Venkateswara University after receiving an honorary degree.

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The utility at the heart of Japan's atomic crisis, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), won institutional shareholder backing on Tuesday to keep its reactors in the face of anger from rank-and-file stockholders seeking an end to nuclear energy.

A motion filed at the utility's annual general meeting would have forced managers to scrap all nuclear reactors and stop building new ones, reflecting a wid

The Central government has finally given the go-ahead to the proposed 10,000 MW nuclear power plant in Kovvada in Srikakulam after a review of the safety aspects following the tsunami-linked nuclear disaster in Japan.

As officials in Japan agonise over what constitutes a safe radiation dose for people who live near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, the state of the science has been a daunting problem.