Nuclear Energy News

Specially trained workers are finalizing plans to enter the nation's only underground nuclear waste dump after two separate incidents forced its closure weeks ago, including a leak that exposed more than a dozen workers to low levels of radiation.

As remuneration in the British Columbia public sector skyrockets, we bring you our annual database of who is making what in B.C.'s public service.

The control room for the crippled No 1 and No 2 reactors is coated in pink plastic sheeting.

A handheld radiation camera developed by University of Michigan engineering researchers that offers nuclear plant operators a faster way to find potentially dangerous hot spots and leaky fuel rods is now on the market.

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Jordan wants to establish a nuclear reactor to cut down its dependency of foreign energy imports that currently account for 96 percent of the country's energy stock The Jordan Atomic Energy Commission has completed eight rounds of talks with Russia's Rosatom to sign two agreements that will pave the way for the establishment of the country's first ... (more)

"The Fukushima nuclear power plant catastrophe in Japan continues. As it enters its fourth year, there are new revelations about higher radiation releases and additional leaks.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The U.S. Department of Energy and the operators of the nation's only underground nuclear waste dump said Monday they are making plans to allow specially trained workers to enter the site for the first time in weeks after more than a dozen employees were exposed to low levels of radiation during a mysterious leak.

Constellation Energy says its Nine Mile Point 2 nuclear power plant on Lake Ontario in central New York is back in service after being shut down last week by a problem with a power supply.

More than 60 people held a vigil at Heysham Nuclear Power station on Saturday, to mark the third anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Fukishima.

The radioactive water that has accumulated at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant remains the biggest problem hampering the cleanup process three years after the disaster.

A teen scientist from Penwortham, England, has become the youngest person in the world to build a functioning nuclear fusion reactor.

Residents from every town on Cape Cod will gather in a protest Monday at the State House over the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth.

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.