First Solar Inc said on Tuesday it plans to build the world's largest solar plant in China in the first major foray by a U.S. company into the Asian nation's fast growing alternative energy sector.

Energy-starved India, armed with permission to buy atomic fuel from around the world after the end of a three-decade ban, is courting new partners alongside old friends in its global hunt for uranium.

Former president A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday said, there would be a 250 MW nuclear power station on one of the islands exclusively for the Andamans. He was at the national seminar on security and development of the islands under the Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC).

Sri Lanka government yesterday said that India is likely to share its nuclear technology with Sri Lanka for power generation using thorium as the main source of energy.

India and Namibia signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the field of Geology and Mineral Resources and an agreement on cooperation in peaceful uses of nuclear energy, as Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday.

Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Wednesday called for a foolproof regulatory mechanism for the nuclear power sector, pointing out that private utility providers will be running such plants in the "not so distant future".

Spokesman to the President Farhatullah Babar on Tuesday said that Chinese Foreign Minister has advocated Pakistan's right to nuclear energy to overcome its power shortage and utilise it for peaceful purposes. In an interview with APP, he said during President Asif Ali Zardari's meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi last night.

The loading of fuel for the first unit of the 2,000-MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu will be the main agenda at the joint coordination committee meeting of the Nuclear Power Corp of India (NPCIL) and Russian agency AtomStroy Export, beginning on Tuesday.