Nuclear Energy News

The nuclear industry remains remarkably optimistic about its future, wrties Paul Brown - despite evidence that it is a shrinking source of power as renewables, in particular solar and wind power, compete with increasing success to fill the energy gap.

Westinghouse Electric Co. took another step toward a deal to build an AP1000 nuclear plant in Bulgaria for the expansion of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant.

Texas A&M University's nuclear engineering program has two nuclear reactors. See the other U.S. locations which house nuclear reactors and learn more about their programs ... Which is scarier - the fact that a nuclear reactor sits less than 100 miles from downtown Houston or that someone at Texas A&M University left it inadequately monitored for a ... (more)

It feels like we are back in Old Salem chasing witches. This fear of nuclear power goes beyond reason and borders on mass hysteria, superstition and primeval terror.

Central Maine Power Co. said power bills for residential and small business customers are set to go up an average of $2.07 per month, starting Sept.

Shares of French nuclear group Areva fell as much as 23 percent as it posted a first-half loss, exited the solar business and cut sales targets in a struggling nuclear industry.

Bulgaria, one of five EU states that depend totally on Russia for nuclear fuel, and Westinghouse Electric Company signed a shareholder agreement on Friday paving the way for construction of a new nuclear reactor estimated to cost $5 billion.

Queensland could be dotted with hidden deposits of low level radioactive waste if uranium was once again mined in the state, environmentalists have warned.

The Oconee Nuclear Station’s top leadership claimed responsibility Thursday for safety violations that allowed a crack in its oldest reactor to go undetected for years, but they stopped short of agreeing with nuclear regulators on the severity of the lapse in oversight.

The figures on crimes and crimes against women are bad enough in Mumbai and in Maharashtra, but with this latest incident we have reached a new low: A 26-year-old model lodged a complaint against Deputy Inspector General of Police Sunil Paraskar accusing him of rape and misconduct.

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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