Nuclear Energy News

IN JANUARY, Vietnam announced its intention to delay the construction of its first nuclear power plant due to safety concerns.

International Nuclear Services, its subsidiary Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited and Sellafield Ltd have successfully completed the largest shipment so far in a decade-long programme to repatriate highly active waste to Japan.

Is it right to send safe and efficient nuclear power plants into early retirement? And what about subjecting homes and businesses to the risk of high electricity prices from over-reliance on a single fuel - in this case natural gas? Ginna, Indian Point, FitzPatrick, and Nine Mile Point - these New York nuclear plants are some of the power ... (more)

He said the move would expand Mulago Nuclear unit and establish three new nuclear units in Mbarara, Gulu and Mbale regional hospitals in order to develop and improve research in nuclear medicine.

Uranium prices have gotten clobbered during the past three years, in the wake of Japan's high-profile nuclear power plant accident and an uneven economic recovery.

Federal inspectors say a now-corrected security lapse could have allowed unauthorized access to a protected area at DTE Energy's Fermi 2 nuclear power plant in southeastern Michigan.

Small underground nuclear power plants may herald the future for an energy industry under intense scrutiny after Japan's Fukushima disaster, but America may not see them for many more years due to uncertainties with funding and regulations.

Belarus has few nuclear power specialists, but the work to be done is no joke. Gosatomnadzor , the main supervisory body that controls the construction and operation of the Astravets NPP, has increased its staff almost twofold, Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belarus writes.

Taiwan's premier has rejected opposition demands to halt construction of a controversial atomic power plant, sparking threats of street protests from anti-nuclear campaigners.

Due to higher earthquake risk in the region, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is requiring three Pennsylvania nuclear reactors to conduct in-depth reassessments of their ability to withstand larger earth tremors.

Following a visit to the mayor of Taipei on Sunday, Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Su Tseng-chang yesterday visited Premier Jiang Yi-huah at the Executive Yuan and discussed controversial the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant issue.

Federal regulators have granted permission to Connecticut's nuclear power plant to use warmer sea water for cooling at one of its two stations in Waterford.

An internal document released by the UK Environment Agency reveals that the Drigg Low-Level Waste Repository on the Cumbrian coast is under threat from rising sea levels.

Taiwan's Premier Jiang Yi-huah on Monday rejected a call from the main opposition party to scrap a nearly completed nuclear power plant, despite planned protests including a hunger strike.

The government of Japan finally came to the conclusion that the same nuclear energy that played a powerful role in modernization , is once more to be part of the energy policy of this nation.

China may sign as early as next year the first of several contracts for eight new nuclear reactors from Westinghouse Electric Co, as the government presses ahead with the world's biggest civilian nuclear power expansion since the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan.

China, the world's biggest investor in renewable energy, reiterated plans to boost construction of solar and wind power plants along with projects to transmit electricity from the clean sources.

The manager of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant admits to embarrassment that repeated efforts have failed to bring under control the problem of radioactive water, eight months after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the world the matter had been resolved.

With the arrival of Good Friday and Easter Sunday, The Vancouver Sun looks at 15 of the top movies ever made about the historical Jesus, about metaphorical Christ figures and about central Christian themes.

Small underground nuclear power plants that could be cheaper to build than their behemoth counterparts may herald the future for an energy industry under intense scrutiny since the Fukushima disaster, the incoming head of the Nuclear Energy Agency told The Associated Press.