Nuclear Energy News

December 11, 2013 Ratepayers could save at least $1.7 billion over the next 17 years if the Columbia Generating Station nuclear power plant on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is closed according to a new report by McCullough Research of Portland, Oregon.

As Vermonters ponder the shutdown of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, try this on for size: Owners of the Crystal River Unit 3 nuclear power plant in Florida announced this month that they'll shut that facility down by 2074.

March 11 2011 was a tragic day for Japan and the world. The earthquake in Tohoku, Japan caused a tsunami, and the resulting tsunami-induced inundation has placed Japan into crisis.

Xcel Energy will start increasing the power output at Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant within a month.

Nuclear waste could one day be disposed of by injecting it into fracking boreholes in the Earth, at least if one scientist's idea takes hold.

It is a tax and if Entergy doesn't like it, it needs to pursue a challenge in state courts, not the federal courts.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has assigned a new resident inspector to Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station.

A shipment of highly radioactive cobalt-60 is still sitting in the cornfield where it was found a week ago after being abandoned by thieves in central Mexico, the country's nuclear safety director said Tuesday.

The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has backtracked on concerns it raised about a safety drill earlier this year meant to simulate a terrorist attack against a western Pennsylvania nuclear power plant.

Notification Date: 12/09/2013 Notification Time: 09:20 [ET] Event Date: 12/09/2013 Event Time: 08:00 [CST] "At approximately 0748 [CST] on 12/9/2013, an electrical fault occurred resulting in a fire and explosion on the ANO [Arkansas Nuclear One] Unit 2 Unit Auxiliary Transformer.

Nuclear reactor Unit 2 remains offline Tuesday after a fire broke out at the Nuclear One facility Monday morning.

Duke Energy has filed with federal regulators a nearly $1.2 billion plan to decommission its shuttered Crystal River nuclear plant.

As the kids write letters to jolly ol' St. Nick at the North Pole, there are a few letters we adults should be writing to the big gift-bearers here in North America.

About 400,000 megawatts of our generating capacity today is coal and nuclear. They supply about 60 percent of our electricity and provide the greatest price stability.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye speaks during a Cabinet Council meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013.

Emergency measures conducted to handle crises in nuclear power plants do not require the abandonment or destruction of the power plants, the Atomic Energy Council said yesterday.

AMES, Iowa - A team led by an Iowa State University nuclear physicist has won a grant of 204 million hours on two of the country's fastest supercomputers to study the structure and reactions of rare and exotic nuclei.

An inspection team from the U.N.'s nuclear agency will visit Libya to assess the thousands of barrels of yellowcake uranium that reportedly are being stored in a former military facility amid a "precarious" security situation in the country.

Operators are trained on how to load a canister in the above-ground NUHOMSA horizontal nuclear fuel storage system at an AREVA TN facility in South Carolina.

A transformer caught fire at a nuclear power plant in Arkansas on Monday, forcing utility officials to take one of two units at the facility offline.