Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said India is committed to atomic power after his communist allies threatened to withdraw support to the ruling coalition because of a nuclear accord with the U.S., Bloomberg reported.

Israel is considering plans to build a nuclear power station in its southern Negev desert, Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer said. Israel Army Radio quoted Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Elizer as saying he has the support of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and that the plan would be considered in coming months.

Indian officials are expressing deep satisfaction with a peacetime nuclear deal with the United States that took two years to finalize. The agreement permits the U.S., for the first time in three decades, to provide assistance and fuel for energy-deficient India's civilian nuclear power program. VOA's Steve Herman reports from New Delhi that Indian government officials are optimistic the deal will also find favor with a skeptical U.S. Congress.

A trio of security vulnerabilities surrounding the use of nuclear power are highlighted in research papers online with Inderscience Publishers.

The Indian government has approved a deal on technical details of a widely-publicized civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States, the foreign minister said Wednesday.

Iran will resume talks on its controversial nuclear program with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the Austrian capital Vienna Tuesday, an Iranian envoy to the IAEA said.

India and the United States said they had made significant progress on a major agreement in the sphere of civilian nuclear cooperation after four days of intensive negotiations that ended Friday in Washington.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the world's largest nuclear plant on Monday, July 16, causing a transformer fire. Since then, revelations have been coming out about spills and leaks at the plant.

Russia's upper house of parliament ratified Friday an agreement regulating the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project (ITER), being built in France with Russia's participation, aimed at eventually generating power by nuclear fusion.

On July 2nd IBM announced that it is establishing a Global Center of Excellence for Nuclear Power in La Gaude, France, to support safe, reliable and efficient electricity generation by energy companies worldwide.

North Korea Foreign Ministry said that their country is ready to quickly shut down its nuclear reactor after receiving funds that had been frozen in a banking dispute.

Uranium has been a hot topic of late, but one environmental engineer believes nuclear energy does not have a justifiable place in Australia's future. Australia's Prime Minister John Howard believes nuclear power is part of the solution to Australia's future energy needs.