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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering escalated action against Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station after observing a security violation during an inspection the NRC conducted in May. NRC official correspondence to Exelon Nuclear, the company that owns the Peach Bottom plant in southeastern York County, stated that the violation concerns ... (more)

The S.C. Court of Appeals is ordering Chem-Nuclear to better protect the groundwater from contamination at theBarnwell's low-level radioactive waste disposal site.

The following is a guest post by Glenn McCullough, Jr. He served as Mayor of Tupelo, Mississippi and was Chairman of TVA from 2001 - 2005.

In 1982, a number of towns in Eastern North Carolina bought ownership shares in power, eventually owning substantial percentages of the Brunswick nuclear power plant, the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in Wake County and a couple of coal-burning plants.

Taiwan's government said Thursday it would seal off a nuclear power plant due to open next year but repeatedly attacked as unsafe by the public, pending a referendum on its future.

Lithuania does not confirm the remark by the Belarusian foreign minister, who said Vilnius had finally approved the construction of the nuclear power station in Astravets.

The globe's nuclear power industry is aging, plagued with high costs and construction delays, and generally on the decline.

New Delhi, July 30: US secretary of state John Kerry landed here today for what New Delhi and Washington call a strategic dialogue, but economic niggles over subjects ranging from nuclear energy to chicken legs threaten to trip efforts to rekindle a relationship many argue is stagnating.

CARLSBAD >> The Mine Safety and Health Administration issued 52 citations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant this year according to documents released by the Department of Energy this week.

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A federal regulatory agency says it won't revoke Texas A&M's license to operate a nuclear reactor that was left understaffed.

The proposal for a housing a development on a site off Roes Lane, Crich, was put forward by Gladman Developments in May this year.

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.