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The United States' top nuclear regulator said Friday that atomic energy users, including Japan, must figure out how to ultimately store radioactive waste.

Officials were engaged Thursday in the delicate task of recovering a stolen shipment of highly radioactive cobalt-60 abandoned in a rural field in central Mexico state.

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A district court judge last week upheld a state official's decision that gives the developer of a proposed nuclear power plant the water needed to operate a twin reactor facility in Emery County.

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'We need abundant affordable clean energy to help lift out of poverty the remaining part of humanity that is still living in poverty.

Reactor Number One at Taipower's Third Nuclear Power Plant at Kenting shut down suddenly at 1:01PM Thursday afternoon during a routine maintenance procedure on the system's steam generator.

It was 11 March 2011, and I remember standing in the newsroom that Friday afternoon glued to the television watching the horrific images coming out of Japan.

This March 26, 2013 file photo shows the idled Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Blair, Neb.

UPDATE at 5:54 p.m.: Mexico's nuclear safety director says that missing radioactive cobalt-60 has been found near where the stolen truck transporting the material was abandoned in central Mexico state.

Omaha Public Power District Officials say the Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant, that has been idle since April 2011, says the troubled plant is now ready to restart, but federal regulators will make the final decision.

Here's the terrifying punchline about that truck in Mexico hauling "extremely dangerous" radioactive waste that was stolen: It's far from the first time, or the last.

A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency has praised Japan for making progress in stabilising the Fukushima nuclear plant.

The Carolinas' $20 billion a year nuclear industry can grow even larger through developing the region's supply chain, according to a recent economic impact study for the Carolinas' Nuclear Cluster .

The United Nations nuclear watchdog says a truckload of "extremely dangerous" radioactive material has been stolen in Mexico.

Britain has agreed to provide a loan guarantee to Japan's Hitachi to help it finance a new multi-billion pound nuclear plant in Wales.

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A SOUTH Lakeland action group has travelled to Whitehall to continue its fight against using Cumbria as a 'nuclear dump'.

The battle between the Municipality of Kincardine town council and proponents of a proposed deep geologic repository for the storage of low level radioactive waste within 100 kilometres of the shores of Lake Huron and opponents of the plan entered the local consultive stage this past October, with literally hundreds of groups and individuals lining ... (more)

A nuclear reactor at South Korea's Hanbit Nuclear Power Plant was temporarily shut down Wednesday due to what appears to be a problem with its generation turbine that pose no danger of radiation leak, plant operators said.