Nuclear Energy News

The International Atomic Energy Agency says a Japanese diplomat and a South African official are in the running to become the U.N. nuclear watchdog's next chief executive.

Some utilities are allowing customers to request that a percentage of their power comes from nuclear energy.

The NCKU Professor Ker-Chung Shaing of Institute of Plasma and Space Science Center and Department of Physics was presented with the 2008 Outstanding Scholar Award by the Foundation for the Advancement of ...

We’ll soon see how much Missourians want a new nuclear power plant.A Missouri utility wants to build a second nuclear plant in Callaway County — if ratepayers will pony up before the plant opens.But ...

There were growing fears in Israel last night that Hamas missiles could threaten its top-secret nuclear facility at Dimona.

T HE Rudd Government's white paper on the final design of its emissions trading scheme has triggered a vigorous debate that will certainly continue into the new year.

MANILA: The Philippine government has officially restarted its nuclear energy development program after it entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Korean government for a feasibility study on the ...

Allowing landfill operators to essentially abide by an honor system on prohibiting low-level radioactive waste still has environmental activists against the dumping program on edge.

A report by the UK's independent Committee on Climate Change concludes that the economic case for new nuclear power deployment is strong and if the pace of renewable wind power should fail to meet targets the ...

Nuclear power is back… well, it never really left. Today, 104 commercial power plants harness nuclear fission to generate 20 percent of the electricity used in the U.S. However, not since the late 1970's ...

Areva Inc., a French-owned nuclear services company, has applied to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build a $2 billion uranium enrichment plant near Idaho Falls.

The watchword for the recent election was "change." We have listed a few suggestions for agencies the new administration and Congress should target for reform and increased accountability.

15 The Tories fire Linda Keen, president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, after a shortage of medical isotopes caused by the shutdown of the Chalk River nuclear reactor.

Nuclear power could make a comeback beyond Earth if NASA goes forward with a proposed a fission reactor in its future moon base.

China is expected to start work on four nuclear power stations in 2009, according to a senior government official.

U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday signed a nuclear inspection agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency, which will boost international monitoring of nuclear activities, a White House ...

Chubu Electric Power Co. has decided to retire two old nuclear reactors and build a new state-of-the-art reactor at the same nuclear power plant.

Npower has also been given the option to buy farmland close to the island's Wylfa nuclear power plant, which is set to stop generating electricity in 2010.

BRAIDWOOD, Ill. - Exelon Nuclear says Unit Number Two at its Braidwood Generating Station is back in service.

Gov. Jim Gibbons has appointed a former Sparks mayor to replace a state agency head who resigned who resigned after disclosures that he raised his own pay and that of his staff without authorization.