Nuclear Energy News

Japan better get used to generating all of its electricity from fossil fuel, and to having a permanent trade deficit, now that the country's new nuclear regulatory agency is throwing its weight around to impress the public with a tough-on-nuclear stance.

The contentious public debate around whether to use nuclear power in Japan, in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster , took another major turn on Monday when it was revealed that a former power company official made secret payments to Japanese prime ministers for nearly two decades.

An employee looks at the moisture separator reheater in the turbine building during a media tour at the yet-to-be-completed Taipower Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao, New Taipei City, May 14, 2013.

Mexico's ruling class is deeply complicit in the current border crisis-as is our own.

Given the recent Feynman explosion , some people may be casting about looking for an alternative source of colorful-character anecdotes in physics.

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Japanese scientists have managed to achieve an electrical current of 100,000 amperes - by far the highest to be generated in the world - with cutting edge technology of stacking special tapes.

While nuclear design rules have focused on withstanding more predictable problems, it's the highly unusual but extreme events that have caused the worst accidents in recent decades, such as Chernobyl in 1986, Three Mile Island in 1979 and Fukushima three years ago.

I have the privilege of speaking about NEI's alignment activities on social media at the 2014 U.S. Women in Nuclear Conference this Tuesday.

Canadian group Candu Energy has signed last week in Vancouver a binding and exclusive cooperation agreement with China Nuclear Power Engineering Company for the construction of CANDU Units 3 and 4 at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant in Romania, according to newswire.ca.

The headline figures for 2014 from the nuclear industry describe a worldwide boom in progress, with 73 reactors presently being built and another 481 new ones either planned or approved.

Efforts to remove radioactive waste from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan have merely displaced it to nearby fields growing rice, according to disturbing new reports.

Reactors 1 and 2 at the Sendai nuclear power station in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, lie idle July 8. The two units are likely to be the first in the nation to be reactivated under new safety regulations introduced since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

The Arakawa River originates near, and flows through, Fukushima city, which is located about 70 kilometres from the devastated Daiichi nuclear power plant.

It is in the nature of scientists to argue over the evidence for or against any important breakthrough.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week released a study on the environmental impacts of storing spent nuclear fuel.

The U.S. nuclear industry has started building its first new plants in decades using prefabricated Lego-like blocks meant to save time and money and revive the once promising energy source.

In this Friday, June 13, 2014 photo, Buzz Miller, executive vice president of nuclear development at Southern Co., stands in front of the high-pressure vessel that will be used in a new nuclear reactor at Plant Vogtle power plant in Waynesboro, Ga.

In this Friday, June 13, 2014 photo, Buzz Miller, executive vice president of nuclear development at Southern Co., stands in front of the high-pressure vessel that will be used in a new nuclear reactor at Plant Vogtle power plant in Waynesboro, Ga.

Steam rises from the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant in Middletown, Pa. Industry executives are calling on Congress to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, which they say supports thousands of domestic manufacturing jobs for parts shipped to nuclear plants overseas.