Nuclear Energy News

A PPL subsidiary has applied for a license to build a nuclear power plant in northeastern Pennsylvania that would power more than a million homes, the company announced Friday.

A U.S. official has told The Associated Press that North Korea has agreed to all U.S. nuclear inspection demands. The development allows the Bush administration to remove the communist country from a U.S. terrorism blacklist.

On October 9 Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler predicted that the evaluation of the winning bid in Turkey’s first nuclear power plant tender at Akkuyu on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast would be completed by the end of October. He added that the government was currently working on the details of the contract to build a second nuclear power plant near the Black Sea port of Sinop, which he expected to be put out to tender by the end of the year.

China's Huaneng Group has launched a demonstration of its nuclear power project, at a plant in Shandong Province. Parties involved in the project signed agreements in Beijing on Tuesday. The HTR-PM project, which stands for ""High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Pebble-bed Module"" is the most advanced nuclear reactor at the moment. It was entirely developed by Tsinghua University and is the first such plant with an installed capacity of 200 thousand kilowatts.

A contract to complete detailed design engineering for an Areva EPR has been awarded by Unistar Nuclear Energy to a consortium comprising Areva and Bechtel Power.

The Wall Street meltdown is making it tougher to build new nuclear power plants, but it’s doing more than that. It could also make it tougher to tear down the existing ones.

Contrary to what Democrats may think, there is more to John McCain’s energy program than “drill, baby, drill.” And contrary to what Mr. McCain has been saying on the campaign trail, where he proposes the construction of 45 nuclear plants by 2030, Barack Obama does not “oppose the use of nuclear power.”

The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission is scolding the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant for an inadequate fix after the partial collapse of one of its cooling towers.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee signed the U.S.-India Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy here Friday.

The federal Energy Department is formalizing its intent to ship nuclear waste along a railroad line it proposes to build across Nevada to Yucca Mountain.

The United States is close to removing North Korea from its terrorism blacklist in the hope of saving a crumbling nuclear disarmament deal, according to reports from several countries.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is investigating a recent increase in foreign control of Constellation Energy, owner of Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, to determine if it impacts the plant's operating license, according to a letter from the head of the Office on Nuclear Reactor Regulation dated Oct. 3.

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-- A PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) subsidiary has filed an application with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to build and operate a new nuclear plant under consideration near Berwick, Pa.

Former New Jersey governor and federal environmental chief Christine Todd Whitman says nuclear power won't solve the nation's coming energy crisis, but it will have a key role in keeping industry powered and homes cooled in the coming years.

The state is keeping the Vermont Yankee Oversight Panel from doing its job, said Arnie Gundersen, one of five members of the panel.

German utility EnBW has received state approval for the deconstruction of its phased-out nuclear power plant Obrigheim, the company said Friday in a statement.

LAHORE: Pakistan has decided to install 10 more nuclear power plants in various parts of the country with the help of China and with an estimated cost of Rs. 150 billion, primarily to generate 8,800 MW of nuclear energy in next 20 years.

Kenya must undertake a comprehensive assessment of her long-terma energy needs and exploit local resources before contemplating the construction of a nuclear plant, a nuclear expert has said.

Lithuania warned Thursday it could reject EU caps on carbon dioxide emissions if the bloc fails to let it delay the closure of a Soviet-era nuclear plant that provides the bulk of its power.

Areva has announced two new agreements with China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company .