Washington, May 23 (ANI): Tehran has reportedly upgraded its nuclear program by adding advanced uranium enrichment facilities and building a plutonium-producing reactor according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Melbourne, Apr 21 (ANI): The Australian government will be testing their own response to a terrorist attack on the nation's nuclear reactor following the arrest of a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Tokyo, Apr 20 (ANI): China's nuclear engagement with Pakistan potentially remains the most destabilizing factor in the global management of nuclear weapons technology, a report has said.

London, Apr. 3 (ANI): The United States has described the prospect of North Korea restarting a mothballed atomic reactor as "extremely alarming".

Washington, Apr. 2 (ANI): North Korea has announced plans to restart a reactor at its main nuclear complex that it had agreed to shut down more than five years ago, escalating already heightened tensions with the US and South Korea.

Durban (South Africa), Mar. 27 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Russian President Vladimir Putin have met on the sidelines of the Fifth BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit here, and have discussed a wide range of issues related to bilateral strategic ties.

Islamabad, Mar 23 (ANI): The formal agreement signed by the Chinese and Pakistani government to construct a third nuclear reactor in Punjab province will violate Beijing's promises under an international anti-nuclear weapons accord, a report has said.

London, Mar. 20 (ANI): Power has been restored to all fuel pond cooling systems at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, operator Tepco has said.

London, Feb 27 (ANI): Satellite images have revealed that Iran is developing a second way to a nuclear weapons capability by operating a plant that could produce plutonium.

New Delhi, Jan 15 (ANI): Asserting that nuclear energy will remain an essential and increasingly important element of our energy mix, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said India will reach a new milestone soon, as the first nuclear reactor with Russian collaboration at Kudankulam starts operating and with the second reactor to follow later in the current year.

Seoul, Jan. 2 (Xinhua-ANI): South Korea has given the go-ahead to restart a nuclear reactor previously shut down for safety reasons, the country's nuclear watchdog said Wednesday.

Tokyo, Dec. 23 (ANI): Japan's incoming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has repeated that he will consider revoking the ban on construction of new nuclear reactors after assuming duties this week.

Kyodo, Nov. 7 (ANI): More errors have been found in the earlier announced projections by Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), over the spread of radiation from reactors in the event of a severe accident.

Washington, Oct. 17 (ANI): A report by China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has revealed the country's fears over the running of a fleet of nuclear reactors, including potential complications from the sheer variety of reactors in operation.

New Delhi, Sep 28 (ANI): Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan on Friday said the Kudankulam nuclear plant is absolutely safe.

Kudankulam (Tamil Nadu), Sept 13 (ANI): On a day the contentious Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant will start loading uranium fuel in one of the two reactors, activists and villagers protesting against it might step in the sea off Idianthakarai coast to step up their agitation.

Tokyo, Sept 1 (ANI): The Japanese government has unveiled its new strategy to boost power generation capacity that seeks to eliminate all nuclear power plants by 2030.

Tokyo, Aug. 29 (ANI): Japan's Government has said that most Japanese favour a nuclear-free society and want to do away with all reactors.

New Delhi, Aug 23 (ANI): Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office V. Narayanasamy on Thursday informed that India can develop world's cheapest nuclear reactors with an amount of US $ 1700 per unit for a 700 MW reactor when compared to an average US $ 2,500 and US $ 3,000 in the world.

Washington, August 22 (ANI): A new material developed by researchers could make fuelling nuclear reactors with uranium harvested from the ocean more feasible.

Tokyo, Aug. 16 (ANI): Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) was ordered by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) in March 2011 to delay announcing that the pressure level in one of the Fukushima No. 1 plant's broken reactors was spiking to critical levels, teleconference footage released by the utility has revealed.

Seoul, Aug. 6 (Xinhua-ANI): South Korea has resumed operation of the country's longest-running nuclear reactor, Gori-1, the government said Monday, amid fears of summer power shortage in the country.

Tokyo, Aug 2 (ANI): Residents of Japan's Fukushima Prefecture have called on the government to end its dependence on nuclear energy by 2030.

Tokyo, July 29 (Xinhua-ANI): Protesters took to the streets again in central Tokyo on Sunday to oppose the recent resumption of two reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in western Japan after all of the nation's reactors were closed following the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

Tokyo, July 19 (ANI): Japan's Kansai Electric Power Co. has reactivated the reactor 4 at the Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, making it the second reactor to be restarted since the Fukushima nuclear crisis of March 2011.