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French nuclear services giant Areva SA no longer projects a date for building an Idaho uranium enrichment plant, aiming to avoid dashing expectations while its hunt for financing drags on.

There's no telling what some senior executives will do to support the corporate culture - but a recently surfaced three-year-old video from a nuclear power plant shows executives going where perhaps no executives have gone before.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has signed on to a petition urging the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to take a closer look at the way nuclear waste is stored at places like the Indian Point plant.

Vermont and other states are pressing the federal government to do something about radioactive waste being stored at nuclear plants like Vermont Yankee.

A Japanese camera crew was at Sunnybrook Ballroom in Sanatoga on Thursday afternoon to film proceedings of the latest phase of hearings on re-licensing both nuclear power plants at Exelon Corp.'s Limerick Generating Station , according to reporter Evan Brandt of The Mercury newspaper, who took the photo at right and distributed it via Twitter.

Managers at the San Onofre nuclear generating plant made a "Star Trek"-themed safety video two years before the plant was shut down because of damaged water pipes.

Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in southern Maryland restarted one of its two reactors Thursday after fixing the mechanical problem that caused its shutdown two days earlier, a Constellation spokesman said.

Vermont, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut are petitioning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a more thorough review of issues connected with storage of highly radioactive nuclear waste at plant sites.

The Fukushima incident has contributed to the lay belief that nuclear energy is a risk not worth taking.

Chancellor Angela Merkel appointed him for his charm and political skill as marshal of her vision of a 'green revolution' in Europe's biggest power market.

12, 2011 file photo, workers in protective suits and masks wait to enter the emergency operation center at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Okuma, Japan.

Michigan senators approved a resolution Wednesday calling on Ontario power officials to answer questions before proceeding with a controversial nuclear waste storage project.

It was one year ago that fire broke out aboard the USS Miami, a nuclear powered submarine docked at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

A major upgrade is happening at Energy Northwest's Columbia Generating Station. All is quiet on Washington's nuclear front.

Plant personnel are investigating the cause of a fire that broke out Monday morning during start-up at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station , causing the plant to go offline again.

Experts from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency are heading to Japan to launch an emergency preparedness and response centre in Fukushima, the coastal city devastated two years ago when a massive earthquake and tsunami set off meltdowns at a nuclear power plant.

Management of depleted uranium at Pohakuloa Training Area and other Army installations will be discussed at a meeting before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission next week.

Duke Energy Progress expects the Shearon Harris plant to remain shut down for several weeks while contractors repair a crack in an instrumentation nozzle in the reactor vessel head.

Khalifa University's Gulf Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Institute hosted a graduation ceremony for its 20 fellows during a two-day symposium on nuclear safety, security and safeguards at Khalifa University's Abu Dhabi campus.