Nuclear Energy News

By Carolyn Y. Johnson / The Boston Globe Staff / May 20, 2013 Layoffs predicted; federal funds cut A long-running Massachusetts Institute of Technology research experiment that explores nuclear fusion as a possible energy source will shut down within a year, as its already diminished federal funding has been cut.

Japan Atomic Power Co.'s group operating profit plunged 89.5% on the year to 900 million yen in the year ended this past March, according to its earnings report released Friday.

"A rendering of a smaller nuclear reactor being developed by Babcock & Wilcox for the Tennessee Valley Authority." Source of caption and photo: online version of the NYT article quoted and cited below.

Any national grid should have enough redundancy built in to enable rerouting of supplies in the event of a maintenance shutdown, a lightning strike, or both.

India and Japan have a chance to learn from history, very recent history , and abandon plans for further nuclear development under the India-Japan Nuclear Agreement India has experienced a tremendous backlash from its use of nuclear power plants that are frequently the subject of intense political activism.

South Texas Project increased its nuclear energy output to full capacity from 70 percent after being offline a week for maintenance.

Physicist Ernest Moniz was sworn in this week as U.S. Energy Secretary, and wasted little time laying out his priorities.

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THE BUSINESS and Energy Minister has hailed plans to build a multi-billion pound nuclear power station near Oldbury after it was announced the plant would create A 6,000 jobs during construction.

Regardless of the wisdom contained in the Supreme Court judgment, we need to go beyond it, commission the plant after making sure, through an international inspection, that it is safe, create a fool-proof disaster management system and make a pledge that India will progressively move towards elimination of nuclear power within a time frame, says T ... (more)

PanARMENIAN.Net - As part of a U.S. sponsored workshop on nuclear energy , Ambassador John Heffern witnessed the first ever remote connection to a nuclear reactor in the United States on May 23.

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French nuclear services giant Areva SA no longer projects a date for building an Idaho uranium enrichment plant, aiming to avoid dashing expectations while its hunt for financing drags on.

There's no telling what some senior executives will do to support the corporate culture - but a recently surfaced three-year-old video from a nuclear power plant shows executives going where perhaps no executives have gone before.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has signed on to a petition urging the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to take a closer look at the way nuclear waste is stored at places like the Indian Point plant.

Vermont and other states are pressing the federal government to do something about radioactive waste being stored at nuclear plants like Vermont Yankee.

A Japanese camera crew was at Sunnybrook Ballroom in Sanatoga on Thursday afternoon to film proceedings of the latest phase of hearings on re-licensing both nuclear power plants at Exelon Corp.'s Limerick Generating Station , according to reporter Evan Brandt of The Mercury newspaper, who took the photo at right and distributed it via Twitter.

Managers at the San Onofre nuclear generating plant made a "Star Trek"-themed safety video two years before the plant was shut down because of damaged water pipes.

Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in southern Maryland restarted one of its two reactors Thursday after fixing the mechanical problem that caused its shutdown two days earlier, a Constellation spokesman said.

Vermont, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut are petitioning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a more thorough review of issues connected with storage of highly radioactive nuclear waste at plant sites.