Nuclear Energy News

About 42% of Sweden's electricity comes from ten nuclear power plants. That is zero-carbon, safe, clean, reliable base load electricity.

Make no bones about it : "Let there be no doubt. Let there be no mistake. Let there be no mischaracterization: I'm a strong advocate for the development of more nuclear energy in Arizona," [Gov. Jan] Brewer told the conference of elected officials and business leaders at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa.

Even though less than a quarter of scheduled repairs to the Chalk River nuclear reactor have been completed, Canada's nuclear agency has begun ordering new supplies of highly enriched uranium to produce medical isotopes.

CHENNAI: The Koodankulam nuclear power project is likely to go on stream by the middle of the year, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Srikumar Banerjee said on Monday.

Two Louisiana power utilities owned by Entergy Corp. are short $235.5 million for the projected costs of eventually closing two nuclear generating plants -- and the power provider wants slight increases in customer rates to close the gap.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer plans to spend $10 million of federal stimulus money on job training to lure renewable energy businesses to Arizona.

South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. is testing the 106 sirens located within 10 miles of its nuclear power plant near the state capital.

India is planning a major expansion of its nuclear-power capacity. The country is planning to increase nuclear power generation to 60 gigawatts by about 2035,

Due to delays in the construction of the Ignalina II nuclear power station, an investment that was due to completed by 2020, the Polish Energy Group might pull out of its participation in the project.

PGE leveled the cooling tower at its controversial Trojan Nuclear Plant near Rainier in 2006 with a spectacular implosion.

When Coleen Ware walked into Turkey Point, she was shocked to see that the indicators showing control rod positions looked like something out of an early '70s sci-fi movie.

One New Jersey nuclear power plant has been shut down and another put on reduced power because of ice in the Delaware River.

Following Alberta Minister of Energy Mel Knight's announcement on Dec. 14 that the province would not stand in the way of the construction of nuclear power plants, reports have been equating the decision with a 'green light' for nuclear power companies, but Energy Alberta spokesperson Jerry Bellikka says not so fast.

To the European Union, Lithuania's Soviet-built nuclear power plant is a gigantic safety hazard that needs to finally shut down this New Year's Eve.

The mayor of a mudslide-devastated city urged a precautionary shutdown of Brazil's only nuclear power plants on Sunday due to blocked highways while the discovery of more bodies raised the region's storm-caused death toll to 73.

A sign on a railroad overpass expresses someone's opinion about the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Berlin, Vt., Tuesday, Nov.

The Abu Dhabi Government turned heads across the world yesterday with the announcement that it would award its nuclear energy contract to a group of South Korean firms.

Although the project will be challenging, Prof Pham Duy Hien explains how nuclear power will help supply efficient energy to the country and improve Viet Nama s international standing.

Vermont Yankee future still undecided The future of the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor was still undecided at the end of 2009, thanks to the global economic crisis, the Vermont Legislature and the cost of power.

The 1980s was the ice age for the nuclear power industry. This was due to the aftermath of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, which exposed about 1 million residents within a five-mile radius of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania, the United States, to radiation.