A nuclear power plant in Sweden has been put out of action following an incident involving a vaccum cleaner inside one of the plant's containment units.

A report in the country's English-language jou

The head of the company operating Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is stepping down and is taking responsibility for the handling of Japan's nuclear crisis, media reports said on Friday.

BUSHEHR, Iran, Aug. 21: A defiant Iran on Saturday began loading fuel into its Russian-built first nuclear power plant in the face of stiff opposition from world powers to its controversial atomic pro