Nuclear Energy News

Thousands of campaigners rallied against nuclear power in Tokyo, as the government and utilities move toward resumption of reactors in southern Japan.

Officials in one West Texas county want to store used nuclear fuel from the state's four reactors - and possibly from other states - in a business venture they believe could bring jobs and billions of dollars to the region.

A fire which sparked the evacuation of a major underground US nuclear waste plant last month was preventable, according to a report highlighting safety lapses at the site.

The crowd of around 50 protesters gathered at Hyde Park Corner before marching past the Japanese Embassy and one of the buildings housing the Tokyo Electric Company and ending near the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.

Fukushima nuclear workers and their supporters shouts slogans as they raise their fists in front of the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Company , operator of the tsunami-battered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, during a rally in Tokyo on March 14, 2014.

Klee Benally , DinA© activist. He is the former lead singer of the punk band Blackfire; founder of Outta Your Backpack Media collective, which teaches filmmaking to indigenous youth; and a volunteer with Clean Up the Mines!, a nationwide effort to clean up abandoned uranium mines.

Ontario Power Generation has grossly underestimated the radioactivity levels of nuclear waste to be buried at its Bruce site, a retired OPG chemist and research scientist says.

Maintenance and safety lapses were at the root of a lorry fire that shut down the only US underground nuclear waste repository, a report has found.

A federal court has ordered the Energy Department to pay Energy Northwest $19 million for its continued costs from the failure to open a national repository for spent fuel from its nuclear power plant at Richland.

A nuclear dump in western Pennsylvania could contain far more waste than originally thought, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's inspector general said in a new report.

That follows a ruling in 2011 that awarded Energy Northwest $48.7 million in damages for the construction and licensing of a used fuel storage area at Columbia Generating Station.

A five-year-old girl undergoes a thyroid examination at a clinic in Nihonmatsu, west of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Good question - what do you think? I thought it was probably the strong anti-nuclear lobby feeding a media who know that fear makes for high ratings.

The president of southeastern New Mexico's troubled nuclear waste dump has been ousted as investigations into a truck fire and radiation release near completion.

California regulators Thursday approved a plan for two utilities to develop replacement power to help fill the void left by the closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant, but environmentalists warned it could open the way for more dirty energy.

Japan 's nuclear regulator will expedite safety checks on two reactors in the country's southwest in a major step toward restoring nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster three years ago.

Preston MP Mark Hendrick hosted a discussion in the House of Commons over the future of nuclear energy in the UK.

In this March 11, 2014 photo, Gregory Jaczko, a lecturer at Princeton University, speaks during an interview in Tokyo, Japan.

A U.S. Senate hearing regarding the firing of two "whistleblowers" at the under construction Hanford Waste Treatment Plant raised serious issues concerning employer retaliation who warned of hydrogen explosions and uncontrolled reactions.

New Bern aldermen hired a consultant Tuesday night to pursue the city's options in a possible buy-out deal with Duke Energy.