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Thousands of people took to the streets of a city in eastern China to protest against a possible Sino-French nuclear project.

Ukraine said Thursday it had reached an agreement with the US-based electric giant Westinghouse to build a nuclear fuel production unit.

China has banned exports to North Korea of a range of technologies that could be used to build weapons.

Belgium is to provide iodine pills to its entire population to protect it against radioactivity in case of a nuclear accident.

Japan will return a huge cache of plutonium -- enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs -- to the United States.

Iran fired two more long-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday as it continued military tests in defiance of US sanctions and fresh warnings from Washington.

French President Francois Hollande acknowledged that three decades of nuclear tests in French Polynesia had had "an impact" on health.

China is planning to build a floating nuclear power station as it seeks to double its atomic capacity by 2020.

Iran announced a major boost in oil production on Monday after the lifting of sanctions under its nuclear deal.

Kazakhstan denounced North Korea’s test of hydrogen bomb and violation of UN Security Council’s nonproliferation resolutions.

North Korea said it had successfully tested a miniature hydrogen bomb. If confirmed, this would place it among a small group of countries with such dangerous weapons.

Iran sent a major shipment of low-enriched uranium materials to Russia to implement nuclear accord with world powers.

According to Senior Research Fellow at the Kazakhstani Institute of Strategic Studies Dauren Aben, Kazakhstan needs to increase security at its nuclear facilities to safeguard them from the ISIS.

Turkey insists it is not dependent on Russia to build its first nuclear power plant amid uncertainty over the $20 billion project.

The Kremlin admitted that Russian television had accidentally shown secret plans detailing a nuclear torpedo system in development.

January 23,2015 Tengrinews.kz reported that Kazakhstan had started talks with Toshiba, owner of Westinghouse, to construct its first nuclear power plant.

The actual need for a nuclear power plant will be felt around 2025 given the current power generation and consumption figures: Vice Minister of Energy Bakhytzhan Dzhaksaliyev.

President Barack Obama ordered the US government to take steps towards lifting sanctions on Iran, in accordance with the historic nuclear deal struck between six world powers and Tehran.

Iran's nuclear accord with world powers won final approval in the Islamic republic with a top panel of jurists and cleric giving the green light.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Russia that Ankara has alternatives to Moscow for building its first nuclear power plant and importing gas, as tensions rise over the Russian bombing campaign in Syria.
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