Nuclear Energy News

AMES, Iowa - A team led by an Iowa State University nuclear physicist has won a grant of 204 million hours on two of the country's fastest supercomputers to study the structure and reactions of rare and exotic nuclei.

An inspection team from the U.N.'s nuclear agency will visit Libya to assess the thousands of barrels of yellowcake uranium that reportedly are being stored in a former military facility amid a "precarious" security situation in the country.

Operators are trained on how to load a canister in the above-ground NUHOMSA horizontal nuclear fuel storage system at an AREVA TN facility in South Carolina.

A transformer caught fire at a nuclear power plant in Arkansas on Monday, forcing utility officials to take one of two units at the facility offline.

The Sun is mostly a big ball of hydrogen, a million miles in diameter, held together by gravity.

The day after Nelson Mandela died, a star in the Centaurus constellation flared up and could be the brightest nova recorded so far this millennium.

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Workers check a transport container and a crane in preparation for the removal of spent nuclear fuel from the spent fuel pool inside the No.4 reactor building at the Tokyo Electric Power Corp's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Fukushima Outdoor radiation levels have reached their highest at Japan's Fukushima nuclear ... (more)

Nuclear power will always provide at least half of France's electricity, the country's industry minister was reported as saying in China on Sunday, defying calls by the green arm of the government to exit nuclear altogether.

It undertakes the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity to residential, commercial, industrial and wholesale customers in the states of Illinois and Missouri.

Authorities arrested six people on suspicion of involvement in this week's theft of a truck carrying nuclear material, a source in the Mexican Attorney General's Office told Efe Friday.

A powerful committee of MPs will investigate whether they were given misleading evidence by the boss of Sellafield nuclear facility during a probe into the A 70bn-plus cost of cleaning up the hazardous site.

The Carolinas' $20 billion a year nuclear industry can grow even larger through developing the region's supply chain, according to a recent economic impact study for the Carolinas' Nuclear Cluster .

Radioactive water contaminated by Japan's ravaged Fukushima nuclear plant will soon reach the west coast of the United States, according to Chairwoman of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Allison Macfarlane, Bloomberg reports .

AN "administrative error" which meant an anti-nuclear group was not invited to a consultation on radioactive waste has been described as "unacceptable" by the Welsh Government.

China and France on Friday vowed to expand their three decades of nuclear energy cooperation to target markets in other countries.

Russia's state nuclear energy monopoly Rosatom will open a nuclear power media complex in Turkey in 2014, a spokesman for the company said on Friday, ITAR-TASS reported.

In this photo released Nov. 27, 2013, by International Atomic Energy Agency, a team of IAEA experts check out water storage tanks at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan.

The latest federal inspector assigned by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to keep a watchful eye on operations at the problem-plagued Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station is a former longtime employee of Entergy, the owner-operator of the plant.