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Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc. is a US based power company. The company is a subsidiary of Progress Energy, Inc. Progress Energy Carolinas is also known as Carolina Power & Light Company.

The newly-constructed interim storage facility in Berkeley is the largest of its kind in the UK, with a footprint the size of a football pitch and can hold around 850 packages of nuclear waste.

THERE are many things people do not want to be built in their backyard, and nuclear power stations are high on the list.

On Thursday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding an open house at Rock Hill City Hall on its evaluation of the Catawba Nuclear Station in York County.

Lin began his hunger strike on Tuesday, calling on the government to scrap the building of the fourth nuclear plant, now nearing completion in Gongliao, New Taipei City.

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.