Nuclear Energy News

Sunday, November 08, 2009 ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission of Pakistan will support the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission to enhance its indigenous technical facilities for manufacturing and installation of nuclear power plants.

The company will begin operation from 16 November working from new headquarters near Gloucester.

November 05, 2009 5:54 pm ET - 1 Comments During a report about President Obama's decision to stop funding a nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain, Fox News' William La Jeunesse referred to Obama's decision as "$13 billion of your money down the drain" and said that the facility is, "from an engineering standpoint," "complete" but "just ...

Now in its third year, NUCLEAR POWER International 2009 provides the nuclear power industry with the perfect venue to gather and exchange information about nuclear power's role in today's changing world.

The argument that nuclear power can contribute to reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions that cause global climate change is flawed for three main reasons.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the operating license for two nuclear reactors in western Pennsylvania by 20 years each.

India and the 27-nation European Union Friday signed a pact on an ambitious nuclear energy project and decided to conclude their long-delayed free trade treaty by next year.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Swedish counterpart Fredrik Reinfeldt held wide-ranging talks here Thursday to give a fresh impetus to their ties in the fields of trade, energy and environment.

Germany's nuclear power policy of keeping old reactors open longer to bridge the gap to greener energy may also leave the door open to eventually break a major electoral taboo -- new atomic power plants.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk met French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a diplomatic visit to Paris on Thursday.

A Japanese nuclear power plant yesterday started using recycled mixed-oxide, or MOX, fuel from a controversial shipment from France that arrived in the country amid protests in May.

Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioner Peter Bradford is in Wisconsin on Thursday and Friday to talk about the costs of nuclear power.

The European Commission on Wednesday approved plans by Czech power group CEZ Bohunice and the Slovakian energy company JAVYS to build and operate a nuclear power plant in Slovakia.. After a thorough analysis of the threat on the market a joint venture could pose, the Commission concluded that the transaction would not significantly impede effective ...

Siew said many countries have listed low-cost nuclear energy as an important option to lower greenhouse emissions.

Offshore oil drilling, wind and nuclear power and global warming brought together five Democrat and five Republican candidates for governor in an unusual bipartisan debate Tuesday.

At last week's debate on nuclear energy, over 500 residents heard Drs. Helen Caldicott and Duane Bratt discuss their respective opinions on nuclear energy.

Michigan's new energy law allows utilities to raise rates on customers without prior approval from Lansing, but if the increase is later deemed too much, state regulators can order customers be refunded the overage plus interest.

Federal regulators say a nuclear power reactor at Indian Point has been shut down due to an electrical fault.

When he returned from trips in Europe and Asia, Prime Minister Raila Odinga came with renewed enthusiasm that the country is ready to join the nuclear energy production league.

Experiments designed to test these predictions have successfully demonstrated the interaction of these conditions.