Nuclear Energy News

Two 107 tonne rotors, destined for the Point Lepreau nuclear power station in Canada, have fallen off the barge carrying them.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published the latest update to its policy statement on advanced nuclear power plant designs.

In the midst of renewed global interest in nuclear energy, a long-overlooked nuclear fuel, thorium, is being re-examined as a potential solution to some of the industry's most daunting problems, including disposal of waste.

ANKARA: A nuclear science conference brought together delegates from Turkish speaking countries in Turkey for civilian purposes on Tuesday.

CH2M Hill will act as a managing agent for the United Arab Emirates' nuclear power program, which is expected to include orders for several gigawatts of new nuclear capacity in coming years.

Progress Energy won a rate increase Tuesday morning to pay for its $17-billion nuclear project. Customers will be charged $11.42 for 1,000 kilowatt hours starting in January to pay for the Levy County nuclear project, which won't start producing power until 2016.

Pakistan's ambassador to China Masood Khan has said that a civil nuclear pact is expected between China and Pakistan during President Zardari's maiden visit to China.

A plan by Vermont Yankee nuclear plant's owner to spin off five nuclear reactors under a new company could be in jeopardy because of Wall Street's financial crisis.

Suddenly, the longtime absence of any new nuclear power plants in the U.S. appears to be over, as more than a dozen companies have responded to the idea — publicized in the presidential campaign – that nuclear power is a way for the U.S. to become energy independent. The U.S. Department of Energy has received 19 preliminary “Part I” applications from 17 electric power companies for federal loan guarantees to support the construction of 14 nuclear power plants in response to a June solicitation.

Ukraine's energy ministry has approved a Russian company's winning bid to construct a nuclear power plant , Ukraine's UNIAN news agency reported on Monday.

A referendum to postpone the closure of Lithuania's only nuclear power plant until 2012 has failed to reach the required turnout of 50%, the country's Central Election Commission said.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said Monday that Western states have no choice but to win Iranians' trust on the country's nuclear issue, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Technicians work at a nuclear reactor. Key nuclear international institutions signed a deal to step up their collaboration, marking a step forward in the development of a multibillion dollar experimental ...

Following are the twists and turns in the journey of the India-US civilian nuclear deal in the last three-and-a-half years.

Jackie Young was always good at math and science, but when she started college she never figured she'd end up pursuing a career in nuclear energy.

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.