The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima power plant on Monday began removing atomic fuel from inside a building housing one of the reactors that melted down in 2011.

Spain's main electricity providers have reached an agreement to renew the life of the country's oldest nuclear plant until its planned closure, the company that operates the site said on Friday.

The figure holds a helmet in one hand, showing the air is safe to breathe, and a symbol of the sun in the other, representing hope and new energy.

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom) won approval from Turkey's energy watchdog on Thursday to go ahead with building its $20 billion Akkuyu nuclear power plant in southern Turkey.

Radiation levels inside a stricken reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have hit a record high capable of shutting down robots, in the latest challenge to efforts aimed at dismantling the disaster-hit facility.

Turkey has discussed with Russia bringing the first phase of the Akkuyu nuclear plant online before 2023, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday.