Nuclear fusion suffers from an image of being too good to be true. But researchers here say they are already doing nuclear fusion on a small scale and it's just a matter of time -decades, realistically- before it becomes practical.

While the U.S. debates the future of nuclear power, Mother Nature keeps sending gentle reminders last week of the risks.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have to amend her plans to transform the energy mix driving Europe’s largest economy because of opposition in both houses of parliament as the July 8 deadline to pass the laws approaches.

While Merkel has broad backing for her decision to close Germany’s 17 nuclear reactors by 2022 in a parliamentary vote in Berlin today, lawmakers are resisting allied plans to load subsidies in favor of offshore wind parks and allow the federal government to push through an expansion of the power grid.

The Fukushima Daiichi disaster has reinvigorated nuclear energy debate in India. With four nuclear reactors currently under construction and the world’s largest nuclear power project about to commence in Jaitapur in the state of Maharashtra, around two hundred and fifty miles south of the financial capital Mumbai, environmentalists and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) alike have raised their concerns on India’s nuclear trajectory since 2008, when the Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal came to fruition accompanied by a waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). Slowly and steadily the issue has escaped the bounds of these organisations and been hijacked by local parties like the Shiva Sena and Nationalist Congress Party.1 This article addresses these issues plus ensuing debates and aims to underscore the importance of nuclear energy in India’s energy mix.

PARIS (AFP) – France will invest one billion euros ($1.4 billion) in future nuclear power development while boosting research into security, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday.

"We are going to devote a billion euros to the nuclear programme of the future, particularly fourth-generation technology," Sarkozy told a news conference, reviewing the government's "big loan" stimulus lending programme.

"We are also going to release substantial resources from the big loan to strengthen research in the sphere of nuclear safety," he added.

FESSENHEIM, France (Reuters) – Thousands of demonstrators formed a human chain outside France's oldest nuclear power plant on Sunday to demand the site be closed a

The TerraPower "wave reactor" concept is backed by Microsoft's Bill Gates, is endorsed by Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman Jr. and has gotten a receptive ear from President Obama's Energy Department.

But it's headed overseas for its next crucial step, if ongoing negotiations with a foreign sponsor are successfully completed, says Roger Reynolds, TerraPower's technical adviser.

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WASHINGTON — India's commerce minister has called for more cooperation with the United States on nuclear energy and brushed aside talk of scrapping ambi

MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia's nuclear power plants are dangerously under-prepared for earthquakes and other disasters, said a state review conducted after J