Nuclear Energy News

Italy's parliament yesterday approved a bill allowing a return to nuclear energy, more than two decades after voters shut the country's reactors.

The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board has knocked down one of the last hurdles to final federal approval for another 20 years of operation of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

Leaders of the G8 have agreed goals for global greenhouse gas emission reductions and have witnessed the essential role to be played by nuclear energy.

In 1955, the tiny town of Arco, Idaho, became the first community in the 'free world' to be powered by nuclear-based electricity.

Progress Energy's plans for its new Levy County nuclear plant hit another potential roadblock Wednesday when an arm of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled that the Green Party of Florida and two other groups can challenge the plant's federal permit.

Increasing the maximum power generation level which a commercial nuclear power plant can produce is called a power uprate.

" The provincial government and the University of Saskatchewan have struck a partnership on a plan to bring to Saskatoon a nuclear reactor that will produce medical isotopes, Premier Brad Wall said Wednesday.

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. is in the news today -- confirming that the National Research Universal reactor will be out of action at least until late 2009.

MOSCOW, Russia , July 7, 2009 - The Russian-American summit in Moscow concluded today on a note of goodwill and appreciation of the oppportunity for both countries to move beyond what President Barack Obama called "a sense of drift" that has characterized U.S.-Russian relations during the eight years of the Bush administration.

Sweden's nuclear watchdog said Wednesday it was considering putting one of the country's three nuclear power plants under special supervision after what it described as two "extremely serious" incidents.

Increasingly unpopular Spanish Prime Minister JosA© Luis RodrA guez Zapatero sought a Solomonic solution last week when he ordered the shutdown of the country's oldest nuclear power plant for 2013, but few are pleased.

JENKINSVILLE, S.C. South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. is testing the 106 sirens located within 10 miles of its nuclear power plant near Columbia.

Berlin - Germany's environment minister Sunday announced a check of electrical systems at nuclear power plants after an incident forced one of them to be taken off the electricity grid on Saturday.

President Obama reminded us earlier this year that the nation needs a transition to renewable energy in the short term.

Aktivisten der Umweltschutzorganisation "Greenpeace" demonstrieren am Montag, 6. Juli 2009, vor dem Tor des Kernkraftwerks Kruemmel in Geesthacht, Schlewsig-Holstein. Insgesamt zehn Aktivisten blockieren die Toreinfahrt.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-left rivals made it clear Monday they will make nuclear power a major issue in the September national election, following a weekend shutdown at a troubled German nuclear plant.

Seattle? Nuclear energy? We think of Seattle - and Washington state -as hydro, wind, perhaps coffee - but not really nuclear.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., provider of about 40 percent of South Koreaa s electricity, plans to increase capital expenditure by 42 percent this year to fund the construction of eight nuclear power plants.

Sweden, a member of the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, is offering New Delhi its niche expertise in nuclear waste management and security as it eyes India's $40 billion civilian nuclear energy market.

A new global effort that aims to make renewable energy more accessible to every country in the world will launch on July 1st.

Governments are lining up to join the first agency that will advise them on how to make a renewable energy transition. The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has attracted 108 countries, including the United States and China, which are both expected to announce their membership this week, in a move that experts say could boost the agency's credibility, since both countries are leaders in renewable energy.