Nuclear Energy News

AT THE start of this year Germany officially entered the Dark Ages again - at least according to its state weather service.

Tense engineers have their eyes peeled on complex colour-coded diagrams on a wall-sized screen that makes their control room look like the inside of a spaceship.

State regulators and the Office of Consumer Counsel recently issued a "good news" press release.

The Messenger, Georgia May 17 2013 Azerbaijan against Armenian nuclear power station By Messenger Staff Friday, May 17 During a meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency representatives Azeri President Ilham Alyev stated that nuclear safety and security are very important for the world as well as for Azerbaijan.

When organizers put on their annual Cool Desert Nights car show and parade in Richland, Washington they need a permit.

WAM Abu Dhabi, 18th May 2013 - The Western Region Development Council , the central coordinating body leading development and promoting opportunity in Al Gharbia, the Western Region of Abu Dhabi, has defined a number of key non-oil sectors to drive economic growth and development in the region.

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.