New York Times: Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover LISBON — Five years ago, the leaders of this sun-scorched, wind-swept nation made a bet: To reduce Portugal’s dependence on imported fossil fuels, they embarked on an...

Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Spiegel Online: A Quarter Century after Chernobyl, Radioactive Boar on the Rise in Germany ‘As Germany's wild boar population has skyrocketed in recent years, so too has the number...

Rethinking security in the new nuclear age ‘VHeadline.com oil industry commentarist Andrew McKillop writes: The most basic read out from what the nuclear industrial lobby calls The Nuclear Renaissance is that national security --...

Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Press TV: Bushehr nuclear plant ready by Sept.? ‘Iran's first nuclear power plant in Bushehr will come on stream in the southern city of Bushehr by September generating 1,000...

South Africa 's 'dirty bomb' mystery ‘If dirty bombs are such an overblown threat, and radioactive material so easily available, why are people still trying to steal it? South African police are investigating what the five mokes...

KPMG says nuclear power 'won't happen' ‘Britain's new generation of nuclear power stations will not be built if the Government refuses them any more support, a KPMG report will say this week. The study, commissioned by RWE npower,...

Arab Nations Advance Quest For Atomic Power ‘A number of Arab governments have taken steps in recent months to set up and advance civilian nuclear power programs in their countries amid a backdrop of growing regional concerns over...

India 's growing appetite for uranium ‘India is keen to shore up its uranium stockpile. Even as several state-owned firms identify mineral assets and are in the midst of floating separate ventures in foreign countries to buy out...

A Watchdog’s Warning on Nuclear Waste ‘When President Obama said he wanted to discontinue work to develop a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, one of the entities that filed suit to protect the project was...