Nuclear Energy News

Japan has racked up a record current account deficit in January, and is lowering its economic growth estimate for the October-December quarter.

New air testing in the nation's only underground nuclear repository showed no detectable radioactive contamination from a leak last month, the U.S. Department of Energy said Sunday.

The U.S. Department of Energy says new air testing in the nation's only underground nuclear repository shows no detectable radioactive contamination from a leak last month.

Very low levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster likely will reach ocean waters along the U.S. West Coast next month, scientists are reporting.

Just before the Fukushima disaster hit three years ago, nuclear energy had been standing tall.

Anti-nuclear protesters hold banners saying "No Nukes" before they march in Tokyo March 9, 2014.

Seen here looking dapper as hell, 13-year old Jamie Edwards poses in front of his nuclear fusion set-up that was successfully able to collide two hydrogen atoms into a helium atom without leveling the school.

More than 700 people have responded in a UK-wide government consultation over choosing a site for an underground repository for nuclear waste.

In this June 14, 2013 photo, remote-controlled and unmanned heavy equipments work on the No.

At least 100,000 people from eight cities and counties took to the streets to demand that the government stop using nuclear power immediately, environmental protection organizations announced yesterday.

Residents from across Cape Cod are planning to converge on the Statehouse to call on Gov. Deval Patrick to help shut down the Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth.

Tens of thousands marched in Taiwan Saturday to call for an end to nuclear energy on the island, ahead of the third anniversary of the Fukushima atomic disaster in Japan, organisers said.

The U.S. Department of Energy has given the state of Washington a plan for emptying a leaking nuclear waste storage tank at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has found a "chilled work environment" in the security department at Palisades Nuclear Plant , according to the report of an inspection completed on Feb. 26. The NRC said its inspectors found that members of the security department believed they could not raise safety issues without facing retaliation and said they ... (more)

Nuclear regulators have been interviewing certain Palisades employees as part of ongoing oversight to see if safety culture has improved at the nuclear plant near South Haven.

France expressed optimism on Friday over its ties with China in nuclear energy and aerospace in a sign of possible business deals when China's Xi Jinping makes his first trip as president to Europe in late March.

Federal regulators say Dominion Virginia Power's two nuclear power plants operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety in 2013.

Periodic reports of highly-contaminated water leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan continue to feed anti-nuclear campaigners.

New research has provided a comprehensive overview of new small-scale nuclear reactors, which could be suitable candidates to cope with the world's ever growing demand for energy.

Residents and local officials voiced frustration Thursday with the amount of information being released by the U.S. Department of Energy about a radiation leak last month at the nation's only underground nuclear waste dump.