The Japanese government has ordered the operator of the nuclear plant damaged by last month's quake and tsunami to pay compensation to affected families.

• April 15, 2011

An Iranian lawmaker said Wednesday Iran's Majlis (Parliament) will set up a committee to investigate the delay in the launch of the country's first nuclear power plant, Mehr news agency reported.

• April 7, 2011

Bulgaria and Russia have signed a memorandum to stop construction of the Belene nuclear power plant for three months, Bulgaria's National Electric Company (NEK) said

• April 6, 2011

President Dalia Grybauskaitė had a meeting with Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Discussion in the meeting focused on Lithuanian-Norwegian bilateral relations, cooperation in the field of foreign policy and security as well as economy and energy, and elimination of Baltic energy isolation.

• April 6, 2011

A Chinese firm is looking at investing in Pakistan's hydel power projects that would add nearly 9,000 MW of electricity to the national grid, a media report said Wednesday.

• April 6, 2011

Japan has asked nuclear superpower Russia to send a special radiation treatment ship used to decommission nuclear submarines to help in its fight to contain the world’s worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl, Japanese media said

• April 6, 2011

A new poll shows nearly half of Lithuania's population have turned against nuclear energy following the catastrophe at a Japanese reactor

• April 5, 2011

A reassuring word about the dangers posed to the U.S. and Europe by radiation from Japan came from an unlikely source Sunday _ the president of a Baltic Sea nation who, as a young Red Army medic, witnessed firsthand the horrors of the world's worst nuclear accident.

• April 4, 2011