Nuclear Energy News

An atomic safety board has agreed to conduct a hearing in Boston after a request by opponents of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth.

On high-level nuclear waste, the world's governments are registering low levels of activity.

Nathan Myhrvold, founder and CEO of Intellectual Ventures, took the arrows of a hostile audience over his business of buying and licensing patents.

Worries over radiation are so rampant in Japan after last year's nuclear meltdowns that the world's first cell phones with built-in radiation monitors are going on sale.

South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has stressed the need for replacing coal with other energy sources, particularly nuclear energy.

As temperatures rise, the heat is on to re-open San Onofre nuclear plant, following a radiation leak at the Southern California plant this winter.

Southern California Edison told U.S. nuclear regulators that its workers identified a potential problem that would have incorrectly shut emergency diesel generators at the San Onofre nuclear station in California at the worst possible time -- when the plant lost off-site power during an earthquake, the company said on Tuesday.

The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant in California operated for decades with equipment that might have temporarily severed the plant's emergency power supply in the event of an earthquake, government filings revealed Tuesday.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission should consider requiring nuclear power plants to analyze their vulnerability to natural hazards like earthquakes by using the same advanced tools that the industry uses to understand the risks from mechanical accidents, a new report from the Government Accountability Office argues.

The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant in California operated for decades with equipment that might have temporarily severed the plant's emergency power supply in the event of an earthquake, government filings revealed Tuesday.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold its annual meeting on the D.C. Cook Nuclear Power Station in Southwest Michigan this week.

Johannesburg - No charges have been laid against private security guards who allegedly "roughed up" protesters and threw leaves at a cameraman during a nuclear power protest in Sandton on Tuesday, Gauteng police said.

In The Chernobyl Diaries , viewers are forced to answer the proverbial question, "Would you rather die from a pack of angry wild dogs, from injuries sustained while running through a nuclear reactor that suffered a horrific meltdown, or from the psychotic, nuke-addled residents that live near that reactor?" Back in the go-go mid-'90s, a coworker ... (more)

Nuclear Power Corporation's Koovandkulam Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant is seen in the background from a beach in Idindakarai, Tamil Nadu in this Oct.

The University of Tennessee is receiving more than $1.7 million for nuclear industry training and research.

In charge of safeguarding those dollars is the state Public Service Commission. And in 2009, and every year since, it has had a chance to pull Progress away from the gambling table.

The outgoing head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had no major issues last week as he toured a nuclear reactor under construction in South Carolina, one of the first new reactors in the country being built in a generation.

In March of 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit Japanese coastal areas leading to the death of over 15,000 people.

Japan's leader felt fearful and helpless during last year's nuclear disaster and lacked experts capable of giving him guidance, he testified Monday in his first response to a public investigative inquiry on the crisis.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he was overwhelmed and afraid during last year's nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, acknowledging that little has been done since then to ensure that another nuclear disaster will not occur.