Nuclear Energy News

Nuclear power will always provide at least half of France's electricity, the country's industry minister was reported as saying in China on Sunday, defying calls by the green arm of the government to exit nuclear altogether.

It undertakes the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity to residential, commercial, industrial and wholesale customers in the states of Illinois and Missouri.

Authorities arrested six people on suspicion of involvement in this week's theft of a truck carrying nuclear material, a source in the Mexican Attorney General's Office told Efe Friday.

A powerful committee of MPs will investigate whether they were given misleading evidence by the boss of Sellafield nuclear facility during a probe into the A 70bn-plus cost of cleaning up the hazardous site.

The Carolinas' $20 billion a year nuclear industry can grow even larger through developing the region's supply chain, according to a recent economic impact study for the Carolinas' Nuclear Cluster .

Radioactive water contaminated by Japan's ravaged Fukushima nuclear plant will soon reach the west coast of the United States, according to Chairwoman of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Allison Macfarlane, Bloomberg reports .

AN "administrative error" which meant an anti-nuclear group was not invited to a consultation on radioactive waste has been described as "unacceptable" by the Welsh Government.

China and France on Friday vowed to expand their three decades of nuclear energy cooperation to target markets in other countries.

Russia's state nuclear energy monopoly Rosatom will open a nuclear power media complex in Turkey in 2014, a spokesman for the company said on Friday, ITAR-TASS reported.

In this photo released Nov. 27, 2013, by International Atomic Energy Agency, a team of IAEA experts check out water storage tanks at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan.

The latest federal inspector assigned by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to keep a watchful eye on operations at the problem-plagued Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station is a former longtime employee of Entergy, the owner-operator of the plant.

Russian nuclear power plants may be built in the UK very soon. This is a real prospect following the signing of a memorandum of understanding in the nuclear sphere between Rosatom and the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.

The company submitted an operating license application in September 2008 to build what would have been Nine Mile 3. But just over a year later UniStar submitted a letter requesting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to temporarily suspend the application review, including any supporting reviews by external agencies, until further notice.

The United States' top nuclear regulator said Friday that atomic energy users, including Japan, must figure out how to ultimately store radioactive waste.

Officials were engaged Thursday in the delicate task of recovering a stolen shipment of highly radioactive cobalt-60 abandoned in a rural field in central Mexico state.

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A district court judge last week upheld a state official's decision that gives the developer of a proposed nuclear power plant the water needed to operate a twin reactor facility in Emery County.

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'We need abundant affordable clean energy to help lift out of poverty the remaining part of humanity that is still living in poverty.

Reactor Number One at Taipower's Third Nuclear Power Plant at Kenting shut down suddenly at 1:01PM Thursday afternoon during a routine maintenance procedure on the system's steam generator.