Fukushima, Japan News

When I first moved to southeast Vermont, I knew the about the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, just 15.6 miles from us by road - and less as the crow flies.

It's been an intense couple of weeks for nuclear power in Southern California , what with both reactors offline at San Onofre .

Concern is growing that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan is no longer stable, after temperature readings suggested one of its damaged reactors was reheating.

Holding "No Nukes" signs, people march demanding Japan abandon atomic power in Tokyo, Saturday, Feb.

As air pollution crept back up to hazardous levels in the Chinese capital, smog was probably the most talked about environmental story of the year.

Koyu Abe gives instructions to volunteers during a radiation cleansing event hosted by himself at an elementary school in Fukushima, Japan on Feb.

Steam rises from the cooling towers of nuclear reactors at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle, in Waynesboro, Ga.

Via @designboom , a multi-level house in Fukushima, Japan with "horizontally-running strips of transparency [that] dynamically break up the monotonous surface while also offering fleeting views of the courtyard within." "To maintain natural lighting for the interior, three voids of different heights were inserted into the layout of the house... The ... (more)

The Swedish state-owned energy group said its net profits fell 21 percent in 2011 as a result of a "tough year" for energy production and the forced shutdown of its German nuclear reactors.

As the tents were coming down at McPherson Square , the dead rats and mice being retrieved, the urine and feces and filthy bedding disposed of by D.C. employees dressed in hazardous-materials suits like their contemporaries at Fukushima, Japan , I thought of the left-wing press.

's proposed 2,234-megawatts Vogtle nuclear plant. But anti-nuclear activists are asking the commission to delay the vote as they prepare to file a federal suit next week against the proposed licensing.

Letters, of no more than 250 words, must bear the writer's full name, address with a zip code, daytime phone number and email address.

Emails posted on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission website after the Fukushima disaster last March have revealed the agency was kept in the dark about the scale of the crisis.

When I first moved to southeast Vermont, I knew the about the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, just 15.6 miles from us by road - and less as the crow flies.

The government plans to make the nation's 12 nuclear plant operators start paying 150 billion a year to the state-backed facility set up to help Tokyo Electric Power Co.

When I first moved to southeast Vermont, I knew the about the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, just 15.6 miles from us by road - and less as the crow flies.

Concern: Radioactive water was found to be leaking in the Fukushima power plan as workers worked on stabilising the plant Yet now it has emerged that radioactive water is continuing to leak at the stricken site.

It appears the nuclear industry has a failure to communicate. Thursday night, the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering gave a three-hour presentation to the Nuclear Energy Advisory Council about the future of nuclear power in Connecticut.

If a catastrophic earthquake disabled a nuclear power reactor like the one at Peach Bottom in York County, computer models suggest the plant could explode and release radioactive materials into the environment more quickly than occurred last year in Fukushima, Japan.

The number of people moving out of the three prefectures hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami exceeded the number of those moving in by 41,226 in 2011, according to a survey by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry.