Nuclear Energy News

In this June 19, 2014 photo, Sean Travers, Japan president of EarthStream, poses for photos at his office in Tokyo.

A South Korean nuclear reactor has restarted after a month-long closure due to a control rod problem, a spokesman at state-run atomic operator Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co Ltd said on Thursday.

A vent-tube extension that raises the level of a tube that vents chemical vapors from an underground tank containing nuclear waste is shown at upper left, braced by a metal frame and cables at the "C" tank farm at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Wednesday, July 9, 2014 near Richland, Wash.

Insurgents in Iraq have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country's north, Iraq told the United Nations in a letter appealing for help to "stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad."

Insurgents in Iraq have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country's north, Iraq told the United Nations in a letter appealing for help to "stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad."

In this June 30, 2014 photo, Ken Buesseler, senior scientist of marine chemistry and geochemistry works in his office at his Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research facility in Woods Hole, Mass.

Islamist militants in the Gaza Strip launched three rockets towards the southern Israeli town of Dimona and its nuclear reactor on Wednesday, causing no injury or damage, the Israeli military said.

The Star Tribune reports that experts hired by Minnesota utility regulators found Xcel managers didn't fully plan for the job and didn't have adequate oversight.

The Star Tribune reports that experts hired by Minnesota utility regulators found Xcel managers didn't fully plan for the job and didn't have adequate oversight.

Nuclear waste storage casks at the Kewaunee nuclear power plant on the Lake Michigan shoreline serve as a potent reminder of a national failure: the inability to come up with a coherent strategy with sufficient funding on what to do about nuclear waste.

As the nation exits the July 4 holiday weekend, 99 of the 100 commercial nuclear power units in the United States are currently producing power, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's daily reactor status report on July 7. PPL returned Unit 2 of the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania to service on July 5 after shutting the ... (more)

Torness nuclear power station operator EDF Energy is seeking permission to store radioactive waste on the site from other power stations.

Thousands of American manufacturing jobs hang in the balance when U.S. companies - large and small - seek to do business internationally against competitors who are subsidized by their governments.

The best jobs and the biggest employer are disappearing from the town of Carlton, Wisconsin , leaving behind a site that should be ready for a new employer to move in, perhaps a half-century from now.

Germany authorities are contemplating the return of nuclear fuel kept in 152 containers to the United States.

Democratic candidate for governor Vincent Sheheen continued to speak out against the possibility of German nuclear waste coming to the Savannah River Site, saying the state should stand up to the federal government.

Power at the expense of safety? The Modi government may seek to dilute the liability laws that would indict nuclear energy suppliers in the event ofan accident The responses to India's ratification of the IAEA's Additional Protocol have been rather curious.

Evidence continues to emerge that fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster led to an increase in birth defects and infant deaths along the west coast of the United States.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison M. Macfarlane on behalf of the Commission, the selection of William Dean as director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation .

Exelon Corp's 614-megawatt Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey commenced a plant shutdown on Monday night for maintenance of safety equipment that operates valves located inside the drywell, the company said in a statement.