Nuclear Energy News

A desalination plant to be built along Agua Hedionda Lagoon near the Encina Power Station in Carlsbad is expected to start producing in 2016.

Virtually no one in the Japanese public supports nuclear energy production anymore, thanks to what many now agree was the worst nuclear disaster ever to occur in recorded history.

The Susquehanna Valley's nuclear plants are having to make adjustments to store nuclear waste that was not originally supposed to remain on location so long.

Monkeys near the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant have lower blood cell counts than cousins living further away, possibly because of radiation exposure, a study said Thursday.

A U.S. science advisory report says Japan's Fukushima nuclear accident offers a key lesson to the nation's nuclear industry: Focus more on the highly unlikely but worst case scenarios.

WHILE his friends have spent the past few years partying and running up debt at university, 22-year-old Dominic Callaghan has been carving out a career in engineering.

Southern Co, one of the biggest U.S. power companies, said it hopes to announce plans by the end of the year to build more nuclear reactors, a spokesman said late Wednesday.

Communities could be paid millions of pounds just to consider having a facility to bury nuclear waste in their area, the Government has said.

I have a solution for the illegal immigrants in Texas. Load them up and place them on the White House lawn.

LETTER: Renewable energy will exhaust economy Fossil fuels still the answer, not renewables pushed by Dems trying to limit opportunity Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: http://mycj.co/1rCCybE Wind-powered turbines spin at the Atlantic County Utilities Authority headquarters in Atlantic City.

To reach one of the world's most secretive nuclear-fusion companies, visitors must wind their way through a suburban office park at the foot of the Santa Ana Mountains, just east of Irvine, California, until they pull up outside the large but unmarked headquarters of Tri Alpha Energy.

A lone nuclear power plant, Columbia Generating Station , near Richland, Wash., generated a record 9.7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity for the fiscal year that ended June 30. The reactor has been operating since 1984 and has produced well over 200 billion kWhrs of electricity averaging between 4 and 5 per kWhr.

U.S. nuclear regulators may need to shuffle staff as fewer nuclear plants are built and financial pressures prompt utilities to shutter existing plants, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Allison Macfarlane said Monday.

The offtake component of the agreement allows CNNC to purchase its pro-rata share of product from Langer Heinrich at the prevailing market spot price.

Kenneth Miller is taking over the job at the Southern Nuclear Operating plant near Columbia.

ABC 666's Genevieve Jacobs will talk with three of the nation's most compelling experts on an issue we cannot continue to ignore.

A November 15, 2007 Heritage backgrounder " Competitive Nuclear Energy Investment: Avoiding Past Policy Mistakes " provides a brief history of anti-nuclear activists and regulatory turbulence, counseling that, this time around, we must act to avoid those enormous costs.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership has multinational companies and transnational law firms on both sides of the Atlantic foaming at their mouths.

HESCO's deployable barrier system is pictured protecting the inner harbor naval canal in New Orleans during Hurricane Gustav.

The Environmental Protection Agency is considering a review of its 1977 rule that limits the amount of whole-body radiation that any member of the public can be exposed to as a result of the uranium fuel cycle.