Nuclear Energy News

When is South Africa's nuclear programme going to get out of the starting blocks? Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson had a lot to say in her budget vote speech yesterday, but the presentation lacked specifics and time frames.

We all need to march to our state capitols on one day and say, 'Enough soldiers dying for people who hate us.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is an experimental fusion reactor being constructed at Cadarache in the south of France.

Following the loss of the Malaysian airliner last week, European leaders are once again wrestling with the question of how to respond to Russia over its role in the Ukraine crisis.

Macfarlane said NRC officials are in the early stages of researching how to reposition its roughly 3,800-member workforce as the industry's outlook changes.

New York state environmental regulators are proposing shutting the giant Indian Point nuclear power plant to protect fish in the Hudson River during summer months, when demand for electricity for air-conditioning is greatest.

Engineers at Fukushima nuclear power plant have been trying to create a A 185m ice wall to isolate contaminated water from mixing with groundwater.

According to an official press release, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked the atomic energy establishment to present the human face of India's capabilities in nuclear science to the world and extolled its success achieved despite years of international technology denial.

The DA on Monday warned again on the cost of government's proposed nuclear build programme and the deep hole it could dig for the South African economy.

Bosses at the Caithness plant, which is currently being decommissioned , insist a successful trial could give them two potential routes for transporting the material for reprocessing at Sellafield in Cumbria - with contentious shipments already being made by rail.

Ghana will build its first 1,000 megawatts nuclear power plant at an estimated cost of $2.5 billion in ten years to offset its energy shortfall if the Nuclear Regulatory Power Bill that is being considered by Parliament becomes law.

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Marty McClendon, William "Greybeard" McPherson and Douglas Milholland, who are running for the 6th Congressional District seat now held by Derek Kilmer, laid out those concerns at a candidate forum last week.

The contractor that operates the federal government's underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico received a $1.9 million bonus just five days after an underground truck fire closed the facility.

Abe vs. Ex PMs on Japanese nuclear power plant . JULY 21, 2014 05:09. . While Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shows strong will to restart nuclear power plants, the four former Prime Ministers join forces together to oppose Abe's pro-nuclear stance.

The President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner used her Twitter account to comment on last week's heavy agenda with the visit of Russia's and China's presidents and the BRICS-UNASUR summit in Brazil.

The tide is turning. Energy use is entering a time of fundamental change and great hope.

Contamination of the soil can be shown by measuring Bq/kg. Within the 23 districts of Metropolitan Tokyo, contamination in the east part is 1000-4000 Bq/kg and the west part is 300-1000 Bq/kg.

EPA officials say they have no such intention, but they are willing to reconsider the method they use to limit public exposure - and the public's level of risk.

April 25, 2014 - GE's Measurement and Control announced today the completion of a NEI 08-09 compliant cyber security lab at its Control Solutions headquarters Longmont, CO.