Nuclear Energy News

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday that continued operation of the two reactors at the South Texas nuclear power plant in Texas for an additional 20 years would not adversely affect the environment.

Japanese labor regulators have sanctioned a construction firm involved in the decommissioning of the Fukushima nuclear power plant for improperly employing workers to repair another nuclear plant, also damaged by the 2011 earthquake.

CARLSBAD >> Imagine a world where facilities roughly the size of Walmart lay on the edge of city limits in each major town, generating enough electricity to power local shops and homes with minimal adverse effects.

The world will require all forms of energy over the next quarter century to meet a greater than one-third increase in demand that will be driven by population growth, improved living standards and expanded urbanization, according to ExxonMobil 's Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 , which was released today.

Casseiopeia A, is thought to have exploded about 300 years ago, as shown in this artist's depiction.

The department said the matching grant awarded to NuScale Power LLC of Portland is part of President Barack Obama's plan to develop power sources that do not contribute to global warming.

On March 11, 2011, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami near the island of Honshu, Japan caused a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The European Commission will open an investigation next week into planned British support for a new nuclear power plant, three people familiar with the matter said, in a precedent-setting case for future nuclear funding in Europe.

The agreement signed by both parties Thursday could be worth several billion dollars if it leads to a final, binding contract sometime next year.

December 11, 2013 Ratepayers could save at least $1.7 billion over the next 17 years if the Columbia Generating Station nuclear power plant on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is closed according to a new report by McCullough Research of Portland, Oregon.

As Vermonters ponder the shutdown of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, try this on for size: Owners of the Crystal River Unit 3 nuclear power plant in Florida announced this month that they'll shut that facility down by 2074.

March 11 2011 was a tragic day for Japan and the world. The earthquake in Tohoku, Japan caused a tsunami, and the resulting tsunami-induced inundation has placed Japan into crisis.

Xcel Energy will start increasing the power output at Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant within a month.

Nuclear waste could one day be disposed of by injecting it into fracking boreholes in the Earth, at least if one scientist's idea takes hold.

It is a tax and if Entergy doesn't like it, it needs to pursue a challenge in state courts, not the federal courts.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has assigned a new resident inspector to Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station.

A shipment of highly radioactive cobalt-60 is still sitting in the cornfield where it was found a week ago after being abandoned by thieves in central Mexico, the country's nuclear safety director said Tuesday.

The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has backtracked on concerns it raised about a safety drill earlier this year meant to simulate a terrorist attack against a western Pennsylvania nuclear power plant.

Notification Date: 12/09/2013 Notification Time: 09:20 [ET] Event Date: 12/09/2013 Event Time: 08:00 [CST] "At approximately 0748 [CST] on 12/9/2013, an electrical fault occurred resulting in a fire and explosion on the ANO [Arkansas Nuclear One] Unit 2 Unit Auxiliary Transformer.

Nuclear reactor Unit 2 remains offline Tuesday after a fire broke out at the Nuclear One facility Monday morning.