Nuclear Energy News

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.

A South Korean nuclear reactor has restarted after a month-long closure due to a control rod problem, a spokesman at state-run atomic operator Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co Ltd said on Thursday.

A vent-tube extension that raises the level of a tube that vents chemical vapors from an underground tank containing nuclear waste is shown at upper left, braced by a metal frame and cables at the "C" tank farm at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Wednesday, July 9, 2014 near Richland, Wash.

Insurgents in Iraq have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country's north, Iraq told the United Nations in a letter appealing for help to "stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad."

Insurgents in Iraq have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country's north, Iraq told the United Nations in a letter appealing for help to "stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad."

In this June 30, 2014 photo, Ken Buesseler, senior scientist of marine chemistry and geochemistry works in his office at his Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research facility in Woods Hole, Mass.

Islamist militants in the Gaza Strip launched three rockets towards the southern Israeli town of Dimona and its nuclear reactor on Wednesday, causing no injury or damage, the Israeli military said.

The Star Tribune reports that experts hired by Minnesota utility regulators found Xcel managers didn't fully plan for the job and didn't have adequate oversight.

The Star Tribune reports that experts hired by Minnesota utility regulators found Xcel managers didn't fully plan for the job and didn't have adequate oversight.