Nuclear Energy News

Eyes fixed on a screen, joystick in hand, the operator of a remote-controlled saw painstakingly dismantles metal rods at one of Germany's mothballed nuclear reactors.

Both Opaskwayak Cree Nation, which is near The Pas, and Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, near Creighton, have passed bans on nuclear waste from Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick passing through their traditional territory and being stored there.

Russia and the world's top energy user China may jointly develop six floating nuclear power plants , Russia's nuclear export body said on Tuesday, a further joint energy project since the signing of a $400 billion gas supply deal.

RWL Water was hired to supply sixteen skid mounted mobile water treatment systems for Pooled Equipment Inventory Company , a company dedicated to resolving common equipment and inventory-related problems in the nuclear electric utility industry.

A Thumb-area Republican lawmaker wants you to join the fight to stop a Canadian proposal to bury radioactive nuclear waste from 18 Canadian nuclear power reactors, underground, less than a mile from Lake Huron.

Atomic power's share of global electricity supply is at the lowest level since the 1980s following the shutdown of Japan's reactors after the Fukushima disaster, and may fall further without major new plant construction.

Atomic power's share of global electricity supply is at the lowest level since the 1980s following the shutdown of Japan's reactors after the Fukushima disaster, and may fall further without major new plant construction.

The Government set out its new process to search for a site for a geological disposal facility last week to dispose of the country's highly radioactive waste of which 70 per cent is currently stored in west Cumbria at Sellafield.

Steve Fullhart anchors First News at Four and News 3 at Five weekdays, and serves as KBTX's executive producer.

Japan better get used to generating all of its electricity from fossil fuel, and to having a permanent trade deficit, now that the country's new nuclear regulatory agency is throwing its weight around to impress the public with a tough-on-nuclear stance.

The contentious public debate around whether to use nuclear power in Japan, in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster , took another major turn on Monday when it was revealed that a former power company official made secret payments to Japanese prime ministers for nearly two decades.

An employee looks at the moisture separator reheater in the turbine building during a media tour at the yet-to-be-completed Taipower Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao, New Taipei City, May 14, 2013.

Mexico's ruling class is deeply complicit in the current border crisis-as is our own.

Given the recent Feynman explosion , some people may be casting about looking for an alternative source of colorful-character anecdotes in physics.

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Japanese scientists have managed to achieve an electrical current of 100,000 amperes - by far the highest to be generated in the world - with cutting edge technology of stacking special tapes.

While nuclear design rules have focused on withstanding more predictable problems, it's the highly unusual but extreme events that have caused the worst accidents in recent decades, such as Chernobyl in 1986, Three Mile Island in 1979 and Fukushima three years ago.

I have the privilege of speaking about NEI's alignment activities on social media at the 2014 U.S. Women in Nuclear Conference this Tuesday.

Canadian group Candu Energy has signed last week in Vancouver a binding and exclusive cooperation agreement with China Nuclear Power Engineering Company for the construction of CANDU Units 3 and 4 at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant in Romania, according to newswire.ca.

The headline figures for 2014 from the nuclear industry describe a worldwide boom in progress, with 73 reactors presently being built and another 481 new ones either planned or approved.