On March 26, the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 1 reactor would have celebrated its 40th birthday, making it a senior citizen, where once, utilities estimated reactors' life spans to be 30 to 40 years.

• July 6, 2011

Fresh doubts have emerged over the delivery of Britain's nuclear ambitions, after EDF said it would issue an "adjusted timetable" for construction and RWE admitted it was still deciding "how to move on with the project".

• July 6, 2011

Senator Javaid Ashraf Qazi, the member Standing Committee of Senate for Textile Industry, said Iran and Turkmenistan gas supply projects would help overcome gas crisis.

• July 6, 2011

Nowhere has this policy been more evident than in the Caspian basin and the energy riches of the new post-Soviet states of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

• July 5, 2011

Russia stepped up its efforts to negotiate a resolution to the war in Libya, with officials here receiving the president of South Africa, who has offered his services as a mediator, and the secretary general of NATO.

• July 5, 2011

Estonian and Russian experts met in Tallinn to discuss the financial, economic, environmental and nuclear safety issues concerning the planned nuclear power plant in Kaliningrad

• July 5, 2011

South Africa's Energy Minister Dipuo Peters hinted to possible delays to the country's proposed deployment of 9 600 MW of new nuclear energy capacity, saying that government’s decision on the matter would be guided by current investigations arising from the recent Fukushima Daiichi disaster, in Japan.

• July 4, 2011

India has suggested that countries refusing to match nuclear reactor sales with technology transfers could be frozen out of one of the world’s largest reactor markets.

• July 4, 2011