Nuclear Energy News

If you close down the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, as Times columnist Brent Harold and many others have argued in these pages, do you replace it with a coal- or oil-burning plant? Do you fix a problem that will probably never occur with one that you know will actually kill people? The ongoing contamination from electricity-generating, ... (more)

A new pressure cell makes it possible to simulate chemical reactions deep in the Earth's crust.

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A strong earthquake hit Japan's northern coast near the nuclear power plant crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Westinghouse Electric Co. announced Friday it has successfully installed technology at a U.S. nuclear power plant that addresses safety concerns following the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

The study says the increase could earn Quebec about $12 billion over 20 years, while Ontario would save the same amount of cash over the same period by cutting down on its nuclear-energy production.

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Gary DeLeon with the Energy Department says if the material is processed, an easier way is needed to handle it.

An official says a Czech nuclear power plant has shut down one of its two reactors due to a fault on a cooling water pump.

Dave Huizenga, the top official for the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management, is returning to his former job, but will continue his role in Hanford negotiations.

East Lothian Greens are raising questions about plans by the operators of Torness at Dunbar to change the way radioactive waste is handled.

Tax credits valued at $260 million over 10 years were approved by New Jersey state officials that will bring power plant supplier Holtec International and 395 jobs to Camden.

Iraq has notified the United Nations that Sunni militants seized nuclear material from a university in the northern city of Mosul last month as they advanced toward Baghdad, the nuclear regulatory body of the United Nations said on Thursday.

Whether or not you follow the energy markets, it's very likely you've heard the phrase "U.S. energy independence" at one time or another in recent years.

The Monroe News reports the leak and spill happened around midday Tuesday at the DTE Energy Co.

The market may be about to ripen for small, modular nuclear reactors, like those on Navy submarines.

On 16th July 1945, 69 years ago, the United States Army set off the Trinity detonation in New Mexico, the beginning of the infamous Manhattan Project.

The Iron Dome intercepted one rocket before it could land while the other two landed in open areas.

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