The Nuclear Regulatory Authority in Slovakia said the expected completion of a third block at the Mochovce nuclear power plant has been delayed by a year to November 2017.
One person has been killed in an explosion at a chemical plant in Germany.
Speculation is mounting that the Government is set to give the go ahead for the first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK for a generation, creating thousands of jobs.
Ministers have been accused of prioritising trade links with China over support for the UK steel industry as Sajid Javid prepares to meet steelworkers in Port Talbot.
One of the reactors at Torness nuclear power station has been shut down due to a problem with a valve.
Construction of a new renewable energy plant has been temporarily suspended, affecting 700 workers. Air Products said it had decided to temporarily halt building a second energy-from-waste plant in Tees Valley. The company said that as with many ground breaking projects, improvements were identified as construction advances.
Three people have died while two others have been seriously injured after an explosion at a natural gas plant in Louisiana. The fatally injured were contractors working at the Williams Partners facility in the town of Gibson which is around 60 miles from New Orleans. The two seriously injured are being treated at nearby hospitals following the explosion.
A power plant operator in southern Japan has restarted a reactor - the first to begin operating under new safety requirements following the Fukushima disaster. Kyushu Electric Power said it had restarted the No 1 reactor at its Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, southern Japan, as planned. The restart marks Japan’s return to nuclear energy four and a half years after the 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in the north east following an earthquake and tsunami. National broadcaster NHK showed plant workers in the control room as they turned the reactor back on. Tomomitsu Sakata, a spokesman for Kyushu Electric Power, said the reactor was put back online as planned without any problems.
Victoria Oil & Gas has purchased the Logbaba gas processing plant from Expro for $2.5million. The company said its wholly owned subsidiary, Gaz Du Cameroun (GDC), has made the payment in full for the purchase of the plant from Expro worldwide. The plant currently processes gas extracted from the GDC wells and produces condensate which is sold to a local refinery, and clean gas which is distributed to customers through the 33km pipeline network in Douala, Cameroon.