German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, is visiting Tehran to try and convince his Iranian counterpart and career diplomat Javad Zarif to stay in 2015 nuclear deal after discoveries of increasing tensions within the country by the UN atomic watchdog.
Germany would lend its weight to a diplomatic push to end North Korean nuclear weapons and missile development along the lines of a past deal with Iran, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday.
Power companies in Germany stand to gain billions in refunds from the government after the country's top court declared Wednesday that a nuclear fuel tax was illegal.
The French government on Sunday published a decree for closing the country's oldest nuclear plant, fulfilling a campaign-trail pledge made by President Francois Hollande, who is now in the final weeks of office.
The German environment minister has demanded answers from the Swiss authorities after the Leibstadt nuclear reactor in the canton of Aargau near the German border was switched off on Friday night, just seven hours after being restarted following a six months shutdown.
Germany's Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled that energy companies have a right to compensation after the government ordered the shutdown of all the country's nuclear power plants in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
Germany on Wednesday paved the way for nuclear power plant operators to pay €23.5 billion towards managing atomic waste, in a deal critics say lets firms get off too lightly.
A hoped-for export bonanza has failed to materialize a year after a deal to lift international sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, a German industry association told AFP Monday.
Germany may not have a final storage facility for its nuclear waste up and running until the next century, an expert report released on Tuesday suggested.
A former engineer at one of Germany’s nuclear reactors has made an astonishing claim: that the plant intentionally pumped radioactive waste into the atmosphere in 1986.
A computer virus has been found in a nuclear power plant in Bavaria, but the power plant insists it does not pose a risk to the public or workers at the plant.
Belgium on Wednesday rejected a request by Germany to shutter two ageing nuclear plants near their shared border, arguing the facilities met with the strictest safety standards.
Three energy giants Tuesday went to Germany's top court to challenge the decision by Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to phase out nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster five years ago.
German power giant E.ON on Wednesday said it booked a €7.0 billion ($7.7-billion) net loss in 2015 and warned that "the course ahead will be tougher and longer than anticipated".
France is to close down its oldest nuclear power plant, at the centre of a row with neighbouring Germany and Switzerland, by the end of this year, a green minister said Sunday.
The July 2015 agreement officially entered into force after key United Nations confirmation that Tehran has shrunk its atomic programme, triggering the lifting of painful international sanctions on the Islamic republic.
The US Air Force planned to drop 91 atomic bombs in and around East Berlin in the event of the Cold War turning hot, documents released on Wednesday showed.
Scientists in Germany said Thursday they had reached a milestone in a quest to derive energy from nuclear fusion, billed as a potentially limitless, safe and cheap source.
RWE, Germany's second-biggest power supplier, hit by sinking profits as the country ramps up renewable energy use, approved plans on Monday for a corporate overhaul.
After a security incident, the Emsland nuclear power plant has been taken offline, the Lower Saxony Environment Ministry reported on Friday. No radioactivity has escaped, the ministry said.
Renewable energy provider Greenpeace Energy plans to sue the European Commission over its decision last year to allow the UK to build a new nuclear reactor.
The country is due to shut down its nuclear power plants by 2022 in favour of fossil fuels and renewable energy, but customers are flocking to a new provider's offer of "100 percent nuclear power".
