Nuclear Energy News

Rebar and concrete walls are installed last fall at the top of the High-Level Waste Facility at the Hanford vitrification plant.

One of the reasons behind the uncertainty, as the company noted, was the situation in Japan where after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, all nuclear reactors were shut.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will meet in Richland, Wash., April 29 with representatives of Energy Northwest to discuss the agency's 2013 assessment of safety performance for the Columbia Generating Station.

Recently, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson took a stand against the Department of Energy's "wait and see" approach toward the cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency the greatest danger to nuclear security comes from terrorists acquiring sufficient quantities of plutonium or highly enriched uranium to construct a crude nuclear explosive device.

The Louisa County plant's two nuclear reactors are among 47 in the central and eastern U.S. that require additional studies to determine whether their designs protect them from earthquake hazards.

Everything will be done to make Belene Nuclear Power Plant reality, Bulgarian ruling party's lawmaker Yavor Kuyumdzhiev said on Tuesday.

A resident, whose home was damaged by a major fire, sits in Memory Square in the centre of the fire zone in Valparaiso, April 13, 2014.

The Babcock & Wilcox Company is announcing plans to restructure its mPower Small Modular Reactor program to focus on technology development.

Nuclear energy technology firm Westinghouse says it has reached a deal with Ukraine to deliver fuel for its reactors through 2020, a move that helps the country reduce its reliance on Russia for energy supplies as it squabbles with Moscow over unpaid natural gas bills.

A special inspection of the Global Nuclear Fuel facility in Wilmington is underway to review the circumstance surrounding the recent discovery that some safety equipment was unavailable or unreliable.

Bucking the challenge at up to 20g's, the nuclear components from U.S. utilities strive to survive the gyrations of AREVA's 7-ton seismic shake table.

Construction workers surround the passive containment cooling water storage tank of nuclear Unit 1 in Sanmen -- one of over two dozen new reactors being built in China today.

Japan isn't giving up on nuclear yet, and its Cabinet's recent approval of a new energy plan could be the first step toward a uranium market turnaround.

Federal regulators are holding a private meeting with officials from DTE Energy today to discuss a security issue at the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant in southeast Michigan.

'Clean' power plants and nuclear stations need to triple their energy output to avoid a global warming doomsday.

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Eskom will cut back plans to repair plants during the South African winter to ensure the country has enough electricity as the colder months approach, Energy Minister Ben Martins said.

Miho Watanabe rejoices with fellow manager Junko Kotani at the opening of their grocery store in Tamura, Fukushima prefecture - the first shop to open since the nuclear disaster in 2011 forced the village to evacuate.

More than 30 people in Curry County, Ore. say a helicopter dripping pesticides over their rural homes sickened them and their animals last October.