Voters in a South Korean city have rejected plans to build a nuclear power plant in a referendum the government says has no legal effect.

With both the INLD and the HJC promising to abandon or shift the controversial Gorakhpur nuclear plant if voted to power, detractors of the project are now looking for a commitment on the issue.

Sweden’s Green Party has joined the government for the first time in its 33-year history and now wants to use that power to shutter the country’s aging nuclear reactors in the face of opposition fr

LONDON – Three years after Japan closed all of its nuclear plants in the wake of the Fukushima meltdown and Germany decided to shut its industry, developing countries are leading the biggest constr

Some 16,000 people rallied Tuesday in Tokyo against the government’s plan to restart nuclear reactors, more than three years after the Fukushima disaster, Jiji Press said.

Japan is facing the toughest test yet in its effort to restore nuclear energy more than three years after the Fukushima disaster: scrutiny from a skeptical population.

Two Belgian nuclear reactors owned by GDF-Suez unit Electrabel may remain offline until spring and may need to be halted permanently, Belgian state broadcaster VRT reported on Tuesday.

Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars.

The long-awaited restart of Japan’s nuclear power plants is facing yet another setback and may be delayed until 2015, Japanese media said on Wednesday, piling pressure on struggling utilities to pu

Atomic power’s share of the global electricity supply is at the lowest level since the 1980s following the shutdown of Japan’s reactors after the Fukushima disaster, and may fall further without ma