Turkey has not confirmed reports that it plans to build a nuclear power plant in Igneada on the border with Bulgaria right on the Black Sea coast, according to EU Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger.

• June 4, 2011

Tanks for storing radioactive water are on their way to the crippled nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan where reactor cores melted after the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

• June 4, 2011

Belarusian environmental campaigners and political activists held a meeting at Lithuania’s Seimas (parliament) in Vilnius on Wednesday to discuss the Belarusian authorities’ plans to build a nuclear power plant in the vicinity of the Baltic state's border.

• June 3, 2011

At the end of June, Kyrgyz Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev will travel to Tashkent to discuss border demarcation with his Uzbek counterpart, Kyrgyz government spokeswoman Roza Daudova said.

• June 2, 2011

The U.N. nuclear agency urged Iran on Thursday to join a 72-nation atomic safety convention, as the earthquake-prone Middle East country prepares to bring its first nuclear power station into service.

• June 2, 2011

A day after Germany announced it will phase out all its 17 nuclear plants by 2022, German Chancellor Angela Merkel Tuesday agreed to help India in areas related to nuclear safety and pledged support for the development of renewable energy.

• May 31, 2011

He said he was quite happy with the discussion of the issue at the G-8 Deauville summit and recalled the proposal he made in April. “I have once again spelled out our proposals concerning an improvement of the rapid notification system, higher responsibility of countries operating nuclear power plants and more serious requirements to countries considering the atomic energy prospect,” he said.

• May 28, 2011

Georgia's ambassador to the EU has said the European Commission made misleading statements about street clashes in Tbilisi that left almost 40 people in hospital and two dead.

• May 27, 2011