Vincent de Rivaz , the head of EDF Energy, has rejected predictions that France’s new president could force it to ditch its big investment in new nuclear reactors in the UK.

A Japanese town’s local assembly has voted in favour of enabling a nuclear power plant to re-open.

Brazil has announced that no new nuclear power plants are to be built in the country for at least the next ten years.

Beleaguered Tokyo Electric Power Co, owner of the Fukushima power plant, will be taken over by the Japanese government after a $12.5bn bailout was approved today.

The election of François Hollande as president of France has led to uncertainty about the future of the nuclear power sector in the country.

JAEC (Jordan Atomic Energy Commission) has completed its evaluation and made a decision on which company will build the first nuclear reactor in Jordan.

Scotland would refuse to pay for all the decommissioning costs of nuclear power plants on its soil if it were to win independence from the rest of the UK.

Pakistan plans to construct four new nuclear power reactors over the course of the next five years.

Approximately $79bn is set to be invested by utilities and investors to build and modernize power plants in Germany as the country closes its nuclear reactors over the coming decade.

AREVA has announced the arrival in China, at the beginning of April, of the first two steam generators and the pressurizer for Unit 1 on the site of the Taishan EPR power plant.

Speculation continues to mount that Russian state owned nuclear operator Rosatom is reported to be interested in a bid to build a new reactor as part of the Horizon nuclear power project at Anglesey, UK.

Just two months after the closure of Oldbury2, the UK has announced plans to shutdown the Wylfa 2 magnox reactor on 30 April.

Japan’s Electric Power Development Co has decided to delay the construction of its Ohma nuclear power plant indefinitely.

A University of Vermont researcher has published a report that says the cost of the safety measures needed for nuclear energy will eventually make the power source economically unviable.

Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) has selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to participate in the bidding process to build the utility’s proposed fourth nuclear reactor unit at the Olkiluoto nuclear power station (OL4) on Finland’s west coast.

Areva’s CEO said he expects a recovery soon in global interest in nuclear projects, adding it will bid this year with EDF for Poland's first nuclear project.

A former chief scientist says that the UK should plan and build more nuclear power plants if it is to cut emissions and secure energy supplies in the coming decades.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) is in discussions with Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (Adwea) for the purchase of baseload power capacity from its nuclear power project once it enters operation.

A year on from Fukushima, a draft report from the UN puts the spotlight on the danger of an ageing global nuclear fleet, with 80 per cent of nuclear plants over 20 years old.