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US President Donald Trump (left) welcomes Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House, November 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
July 22, 2026, 12:16 pm
Trump to seek Congress approval for US-Saudi nuclear energy pact without safeguards
Sources say deal to build reactors not conditioned on normalizing ties with Israel, as demanded by Biden administration; agreement said to fall short of blocking paths to weaponization
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) is greeted by Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)
May 20, 2024, 10:18 am
How would a US-Saudi civil nuclear deal work, and what are the challenges?
Conceived as part of wider Mideast deal that includes Israeli-Saudi normalization, nuclear program would be subject to nonproliferation conditions
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, center, leads a meeting in Baghdad on August 30, 2023, in a handout photo shared on the premier's X account. (Iraq Prime Minister's spokesperson)
August 31, 2023, 5:17 pm
Decades after Israel’s Osirak strike, Iraq says it’s seeking civilian nuclear program
Military spokesman confirms high-level meeting on developing peaceful program to diversify energy resources for oil-rich country
By ToI Staff
A view of a spent nuclear fuel storage grounds at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on March 29, 2023. (Photo by Andrey BORODULIN / AFP)
May 7, 2023, 5:53 am
As Russia evacuates civilians near Ukraine nuclear plant, UN watchdog sounds alarm
Situation near Zaporizhzhia atomic plant, Europe’s largest, ‘is becoming increasingly unpredictable and potentially dangerous,’ says IAEA chief, as escalation feared
By AFP
A photo taken on April 14, 2023 shows the nuclear power plant Isar in Essenbach near Landshut, southern Germany. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP)
April 16, 2023, 3:19 am
‘End of an era’: Germany shuts down its last 3 nuclear reactors
Move was long awaited in a country wary of disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima, but environmentalists say Berlin is relying too much on coal, behind schedule on renewable energy
By Sebastien ASH
A illustration of humans working on the moon (screenshot from YouTube NASA video)
December 31, 2022, 8:26 am
Israeli pens plan for belt of solar panels on moon to power oxygen production
With NASA mulling nuclear reactor to generate energy, Ben Gurion University expert says his idea would produce same amount of power with six times less mass
By Sue Surkes
A view of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, in Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region, in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, on May 1, 2022. (AP)
October 10, 2022, 1:59 am
Ukraine nuclear site, Europe’s biggest, reconnected to grid after line was cut
International Atomic Energy Agency describes ‘temporary relief’ over Zaporizhzhia plant but fears of atomic accident remain high
By Agencies
A Russian serviceman guards in an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, on May 1, 2022. (AP Photo, File)
October 8, 2022, 6:22 pm
UN: Ukraine nuclear power plant loses external power link
Site now relying on emergency power; though reactors shut down, they still require electricity for cooling and other safety functions
By AP
Rescuers work at the scene of a building damaged by shelling in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, October 6, 2022. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP )
October 6, 2022, 1:47 pm
1 killed in Russian rocket attack on Ukrainian residential area near nuclear plant
Strikes trap at least 5 in Russian-annexed area; UN watchdog head to visit Kyiv and Moscow after Putin signed decree declaring Russian control over nuclear site
By Adam Schreck
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi speaks to media in Zaporizhzhia on September 1, 2022, as UN inspectors prepare to head to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine (Genya SAVILOV / AFP)
September 1, 2022, 3:32 pm
UN inspectors visit Ukraine nuclear plant as shelling causes reactor shutdown
IAEA says inspectors were delayed on Ukrainian side of frontier but Grossi convinced military authorities to allow team to visit Russia-held plant, where one reactor has been shut
By Derek Gatopoulos
A team of IAEA experts and inspectors leave the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, August 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
August 31, 2022, 7:25 pm
UN inspectors head to Ukraine nuclear plant in bid to prevent catastrophe
IAEA staff aim to protect Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s biggest, as top EU official accuses Russia of ‘gambling with the nuclear security’ by not demilitarizing the area
By Derek Gatopoulos
Workers drain water from a crater created by an explosion that damaged a residential building after a Russian attack in Slovyansk, Ukraine, August 28, 2022. (AP/Leo Correa)
August 28, 2022, 7:20 pm
Both Ukraine, Russia fire rockets near imperiled nuclear plant amid safety fears
Two injured and many left without power by Russian shelling, while Moscow says Ukrainian bombs landed near buildings storing reactor fuel, radioactive waste
By YESICA FISCH
Nuclear power plants are seen in Ulsan, South Korea, Feb. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
August 25, 2022, 3:13 pm
South Korea signs deal with Russia to help build Egypt’s first nuclear power plant
$2.25 billion deal will see the state-run Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power provide components for the plant to be built in Dabaa, northwest of Cairo
By AP
A Russian serviceman guards in an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 1, 2022. (AP Photo, File)
July 16, 2022, 12:49 pm
Ukraine accuses Russia of using nuclear plant as base to shell surrounding areas
Ukrainian nuclear agency says Russian forces also storing ‘missile systems’ at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe
By AFP
Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi talks during an interview with Associated Press in Kyiv, April 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
April 27, 2022, 6:23 pm
IAEA chief raises alarm over nuclear safety at Russian-controlled plant in Ukraine
Rafael Grossi says UN agency also working to clarify Tehran’s response to findings of traces of enriched uranium at three sites across Iran
By david keyton and Cara Anna
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