Nuclear Energy News

For years, Japan has struggled to find a site to safely store highly radioactive waste from nuclear power plants for as long as 100,000 years.

Authorities say an odor that prompted a voluntary evacuation of about 100 homes in suburban Philadelphia is due to an organic compound coming from the sump pumps in the basements.

Reindeer farms and grazing Holstein cows dot a vast stretch of rolling green pasture here on Japan's northern tip.

An elderly woman walks at a temporary housing complex where evacuees from the Kawamata area are living in Kawamata town, Fukushima prefecture June 23, 2014.

Explanation: NGC 2818 is a beautiful planetary nebula, the gaseous shroud of a dying sun-like star.

Now is the time for Utah to recognize the environmental benefits of using advanced coal-burning technologies and nuclear power to generate electricity.

Five cooperation agreements signed yesterday between the Russian Federation and Argentina.

Ami Bera, the lone Indian-American member of US House of Representatives, has called for an open dialogue with India on issues like liability concerns to open Indian energy market to US companies.

Yesterday there were two earthquakes measuring M6.5 and M4.6 off the coast of Japan sending a meter high tsunami towards the coastline.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a nuclear energy cooperation deal with Argentina on Saturday on the second stop of a tour to bolster trade ties and strengthen Russia's influence in Latin America.

Decades-old nuclear waste is being moved from the world's largest open air nuclear storage pond at Sellafield and "repackaged".

If you close down the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, as Times columnist Brent Harold and many others have argued in these pages, do you replace it with a coal- or oil-burning plant? Do you fix a problem that will probably never occur with one that you know will actually kill people? The ongoing contamination from electricity-generating, ... (more)

A new pressure cell makes it possible to simulate chemical reactions deep in the Earth's crust.

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A strong earthquake hit Japan's northern coast near the nuclear power plant crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Westinghouse Electric Co. announced Friday it has successfully installed technology at a U.S. nuclear power plant that addresses safety concerns following the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

The study says the increase could earn Quebec about $12 billion over 20 years, while Ontario would save the same amount of cash over the same period by cutting down on its nuclear-energy production.

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Gary DeLeon with the Energy Department says if the material is processed, an easier way is needed to handle it.

An official says a Czech nuclear power plant has shut down one of its two reactors due to a fault on a cooling water pump.