Nuclear Energy News

Courtesy of the artist "Guerillas in the Midst," a digital painting by Wilke, hangs among the artist's work in a show at The Tin Man Brewing Company.

Poor management, an eroding safety culture, ineffective maintenance and a lack of proper oversight are being blamed for a radiation release that contaminated 21 workers and shuttered the federal government's nuclear waste dump two months ago in southeastern New Mexico.

Decades ago, hundreds - perhaps thousands - of barrels of nuclear waste were buried on a 44-acre site in Parks Township, Armstrong County.

Considering the record number of criminal cases against him, SP Udayakumar, the Aam Aadmi Party candidate from the iconic Kanyakumari seat - the country's ocean-hugging southernmost tip - could be a notorious criminal.

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IN JANUARY, Vietnam announced its intention to delay the construction of its first nuclear power plant due to safety concerns.

International Nuclear Services, its subsidiary Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited and Sellafield Ltd have successfully completed the largest shipment so far in a decade-long programme to repatriate highly active waste to Japan.

Is it right to send safe and efficient nuclear power plants into early retirement? And what about subjecting homes and businesses to the risk of high electricity prices from over-reliance on a single fuel - in this case natural gas? Ginna, Indian Point, FitzPatrick, and Nine Mile Point - these New York nuclear plants are some of the power ... (more)

He said the move would expand Mulago Nuclear unit and establish three new nuclear units in Mbarara, Gulu and Mbale regional hospitals in order to develop and improve research in nuclear medicine.

Uranium prices have gotten clobbered during the past three years, in the wake of Japan's high-profile nuclear power plant accident and an uneven economic recovery.

Federal inspectors say a now-corrected security lapse could have allowed unauthorized access to a protected area at DTE Energy's Fermi 2 nuclear power plant in southeastern Michigan.

Small underground nuclear power plants may herald the future for an energy industry under intense scrutiny after Japan's Fukushima disaster, but America may not see them for many more years due to uncertainties with funding and regulations.

Belarus has few nuclear power specialists, but the work to be done is no joke. Gosatomnadzor , the main supervisory body that controls the construction and operation of the Astravets NPP, has increased its staff almost twofold, Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belarus writes.

Taiwan's premier has rejected opposition demands to halt construction of a controversial atomic power plant, sparking threats of street protests from anti-nuclear campaigners.

Due to higher earthquake risk in the region, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is requiring three Pennsylvania nuclear reactors to conduct in-depth reassessments of their ability to withstand larger earth tremors.

Following a visit to the mayor of Taipei on Sunday, Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Su Tseng-chang yesterday visited Premier Jiang Yi-huah at the Executive Yuan and discussed controversial the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant issue.

Federal regulators have granted permission to Connecticut's nuclear power plant to use warmer sea water for cooling at one of its two stations in Waterford.

An internal document released by the UK Environment Agency reveals that the Drigg Low-Level Waste Repository on the Cumbrian coast is under threat from rising sea levels.

Taiwan's Premier Jiang Yi-huah on Monday rejected a call from the main opposition party to scrap a nearly completed nuclear power plant, despite planned protests including a hunger strike.

The government of Japan finally came to the conclusion that the same nuclear energy that played a powerful role in modernization , is once more to be part of the energy policy of this nation.