Nuclear Energy News

Seismologists said Wednesday that a nuclear reactor in Tsuruga, in western Japan, stands above an active seismic fault, a finding that could lead to the first permanent shutdown of a reactor since the Fukushima crisis two years ago.

Federal regulators have ruled in favor of an engineer fired for reporting unsafe conditions created by a contractor at a nuclear power plant in eastern Kansas, his attorneys said Friday.

The utility that owns the troubled Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant says it hopes to have the plant ready to operate by the end of June.

With its massive money and clout, Southern California Edison was ready to ram through a license exception for a reactor whose botched $770 million steam generator fix had kept it shut for a year.

The six-cubic-metre bin was found outside the Sarie Scrap Metals Company on Field Road off Main Reef Road in Witfield, Boksburg, on Thursday morning, but emergency services and nuclear technicians later declared the scene safe, and no injuries were sustained.

Cost overruns on the construction of two nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle won't end up making a significant impact on customers' monthly electricity bills, the chief executive officer of Southern Company said Thursday.

Investigators have discovered a half-inch long crack around a nozzle on one of the tanks of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant, and have attributed the crack to the water leakage that spilled radioactive water into Lake Michigan on May 5. The plant, which is located on the shore of the great lake and operated by Entergy, was shut down after the ... (more)

EDF does not expect to take a final investment decision on a new reactor at Hinkley Point in Somerset until September at the earliest, says report.

With nearly two dozen regulators examining equipment and processes at the troubled Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant this week and next, TVA said Thursday it has made "continuous, sustainable improvements" to remove Browns Ferry from the worst performance rating of any U.S. nuclear plant by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission .

Several people took aim at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last night specifically regarding recommendations from senior management who recommended that the Mark I and Mark II containment systems within Oyster Creek be equipped with a severe accident capable vent and a high capacity radiation filter.

While the permanent site for a national nuclear waste storage facility is mired in the courts, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation [ANSTO] is required to store processed waste materials at the Lucas Heights facility in Sydney.

A nuclear plant near North Carolina's capital city was shut down after operators reviewing ultrasonic tests from last year found the results showed tiny marks of corrosion and cracking that need repair, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.

Officials are working to fix a pump at the Catawba Nuclear Station that has leaked more than 100 gallons of water with traces of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, according to federal regulators.

Japan has hemmed and hawed about closing its nuclear reactors after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Operators on Thursday shut down a North Carolina nuclear plant after finding cracking that needs repair, but regulators said the health and safety of employees or the public have not been affected.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is ending its increased oversight of Energy Northwest's nuclear power plant near Richland, it said in a letter released Wednesday.

Experts have judged that a reactor on Japan's west coast is located on ground at high risk of an earthquake, setting in motion a process that will likely lead to the first permanent shutdown of a nuclear plant since the 2011 Fukushima crisis.

A portable gauge containing dangerous radioactive material fell off the back of a truck in West Virginia, and officials are offering a reward for the missing device The truck was transporting the device for the Pennsylvania firm Valley Quarries Inc.

Do nuclear power plants need a redesign? Critics of nuclear energy seem to think so, and so does nuclear energy advocate, Taylor Wilson.

Federal regulators say more than 100 gallons of water, with traces of a radioactive hydrogen isotope, have leaked at the Catawba Nuclear Station.