The two European nations are set to strike a deal that will pave the way for new nuclear power plants in the U.K. But why now?

The first new reactors since Three Mile Island is nearing approval just as natural gas is rising as an energy alternative that is safer and cleaner.

After the disaster in Fukushima, nuclear energy is less popular than it once was. Now, the nuclear company Areva will take drastic cost-cutting measures.

Here are some of today's top headlines from the Marketplace Morning Report and around the web. The economy, in the last quarter of 2010, grew …

Here are today's headlines from The Marketplace Morning Report and around the web. …

Here are the latest headlines from the Marketplace Morning Report and around the web. …

Here are today's headlines from Marketplace Morning Report and around the web….

Here are today's headlines from Marketplace Morning Report and around the web. …

On today's show, Marketplace continued to follow the effects of Friday's earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The Japanese government is monitoring the…

Tokyo's Nikkei was down 6 percent. The biggest drop since the financial crisis. Toyota says its plants will be shut down this week. Sony and Nissan…