MUMBAI: India’s nuclear power reactors, which were running at only 40 per cent of their capacity, have now improved their generation with
increased availability of uranium in the country.
The 12 reactors of Nuclear Power Corporation were now operating at 70 per cent of their capacity with improved production of uranium from Jaduguda and Turamdih mills [...]

TERENGGANU: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) targets to commission the first nuclear power plant in Malaysia by 2025 if the government decides to include nuclear as an acceptable energy option.
Head of nuclear energy unit TNB, Dr Mohd Zamzam Jaafar said TNB cannot ignore nuclear energy amid the uncertain future supply and volatile fossil fuel prices as [...]

WASHINGTON — The discovery of water flowing across the floor of a building at the Indian Point 2 nuclear plant in Buchanan, N.Y., traced to a leak in a buried pipe, is stirring concern about the plant’s underground pipes and those of other aging reactors across the country.
A one-and-a-half-inch hole caused by corrosion allowed about [...]

SOFIA, April 29 (Reuters) - Funding for Bulgaria’s planned nuclear power plant at Belene must be secured soon, or the multi-billion euro project will be delayed, a consultant to the scheme said on Wednesday.
The Socialist-led government and German utility RWE (RWEG.DE) have signed a deal to build Bulgaria’s second nuclear power plant by 2014-2015 [...]

Progress Energy has chosen Durham-based Carolina Solar Energy LLC to build a solar power plant on four acres in the Person County Business and Industrial Center near Roxboro.
Carolina Solar Energy will design, construct and operate the 500-kilowat photovoltaic plant. Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Raleigh-based Progress Energy (NYSE: PGN), will buy the electricity produced [...]

By Rachel Kelly, Channel NewsAsia
SINGAPORE : Incoming US president Barack Obama could give the renewable energy sector the push it needs to move forward.
He has already announced plans for a US$150 billion boost over the next 10 years. And this is expected to have spillover benefits for the sector in Asia.
President-elect Obama is calling for [...]

BRUSSELS: Starved of gas following Russia’s dispute with Ukraine, Slovakia has announced plans to restart a Soviet-era nuclear reactor in defiance of the European Union, to the fury of one of its neighbors.
The decision, made late Saturday, is expected to provoke sharp criticism at a meeting of European energy ministers in Brussels on Monday, and [...]

MANILA, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) — Renewable energy sources will account for 67 percent of the electricity produced in the developing Asia by 2050, according to a report released on Friday.
Renewable energy will supplant the need for nuclear energy and reducing requirements for fossil fuel-fired power plants, said the report jointly released [...]

Alfian, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Following the issue of a government regulation mandating the use of biofuel in all sectors, state power company PT PLN has started to operate a power plant fired by crude palm oil (CPO) which it claims to be the first of its kind in the Asia Pacific region.
PLN’s director Murtaqi Syamsuddin [...]

LOS ANGELES, Oct 10 (Reuters) - PPL Corp (PPL.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) has filed with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build a new nuclear power reactor at the site of an existing power station in Pennsylvania, the company said on Friday.
PPL has also filed for for federal loan guarantees allowed in [...]