ENERGY AGENCY REJECTS TRUMP PLAN TO PROP UP COAL AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

The industry has been besieged by multiple bankruptcies and a steady loss of market share as natural gas and renewable energy have flourished... READ MORE›

HINKLEY POINT: THE DREADFUL DEAL BEHIND THE WORLDS MOST EXPENSIVE POWER PLANT

When it is finally completed, Hinkley Point C will be the most expensive power station in the world... READ MORE›

PLANS FOR MAJOR NUCLEAR POWER STATION IN WALES WIN GREEN LIGHT

Office for Nuclear Regulation approves design for new reactor at Horizon Nuclear Power's plant at Wylfa, Anglesey... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN COMMISSION TO BEGIN PROBE INTO REPORTED RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION

A Russian scientific commission will investigate reports of radioactive pollution almost 1,000 times above normal levels in the southern Urals, state nucle... READ MORE›

RUSSIA OPENS COMMISSION INTO 'NUCLEAR INCIDENT' REPORT

Nuclear scientists have created a commission to discover the origin of ruthenium-106, Rosatom said in a statement, also released by the country's Nuclear Safety Institute... READ MORE›

A RADIATION CLOUD AND A MYSTERY FROM RUSSIA

A Radiation Cloud, and a Mystery, From Russia... READ MORE›

RUSSIA DENIES NUCLEAR ACCIDENT AFTER RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION

But a representative of Rosatom nuclear corporation told AFP there have been no incidents at nuclear infrastructure facilities in Russia... READ MORE›

A RADIOACTIVE CLOUD WAFTS OVER EUROPE WITH RUSSIA AS CHIEF SUSPECT

German and French nuclear security agencies concluded that the pollution had not threatened the health of Europeans or the environment in which they live... READ MORE›

MYSTERIOUS RADIOACTIVE CLOUD HOVERING OVER EUROPE TRACED BACK TO RUSSIA

The radioactivity was discovered after monitors in Italy picked up on the ruthenium-106 isotope in the air... READ MORE›

RADIOACTIVE CLOUD THAT COVERED EUROPE MIGHT BE FROM RUSSIA. DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT THOUGH.

A city near the Ural Mountains in Russia, where the French believe a cloud of radioactive particles was released in September... READ MORE›

NUCLEAR ACCIDENT SENDS 'HARMLESS' RADIOACTIVE CLOUD OVER EUROPE

There has been no impact on human health or the environment in Europe, it said... READ MORE›

SOUTH KOREA WILL RESUME NUCLEAR REACTOR WORK

South Korea Will Resume Reactor Work, Defying Nuclear Opponents... READ MORE›

FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR REACTOR RADIATION AT HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 2011 MELTDOWN

The one-metre-wide hole was probably created by nuclear fuel that melted and then penetrated the vessel after the tsunami knocked out Fukushima Daiichi's back-up cooling system... READ MORE›

JAPANESE NUCLEAR PLANT JUST RECORDED AN ASTRONOMICAL RADIATION LEVEL. SHOULD WE BE WORRIED?

A worker takes notes in front of storage tanks for radioactive water at Tokyo Electric Power Co's TEPCO tsunami-crippled FukushimaDaiichi nuclear power plant in Japan... READ MORE›

DYING ROBOTS AND FAILING HOPE: FUKUSHIMA CLEAN-UP FALTERS SIX YEARS AFTER TSUNAMI

Naohiro Masuda, the president of Fukushima Daiichi's decommissioning arm, says he wants another probe sent in before deciding on how to remove the melted fuel... READ MORE›

EXPLOSION AT EDF'S FLAMANVILLE NUCLEAR PLANT IN NORTHERN FRANCE

Nuclear power provides four-fifths of France's electricity generation, but much of the country's ageing nuclear fleet is expected to close in the 2030s... READ MORE›

ROBOT FINDS POSSIBLE MELTED NUCLEAR FUEL

An underwater robot spotted the lava-like rocks inside a reactor of Japan's destroyed nuclear plant... READ MORE›

JAPAN, INDIA SIGN AGREEMENT ON CIVIL NUCLEAR POWER

Energy-hungry India wants to increase nuclear power generation to support its strong economic growth... READ MORE›

FLORIDA NUCLEAR PLANTS TO SHUT AHEAD OF HURRICANE IRMA

Electricity generator Florida Power Light said on Thursday it will shut its two nuclear power plants before Irma comes ashore as a very powerful hurricane... READ MORE›

FUKUSHIMA DISASTER EVACUEES TOLD TO RETURN TO ABANDONED HOMES

People who fled after March 2011 nuclear meltdown face losing housing subsidies if they do not go back, despite radiation fears... READ MORE›

JAPANESE ANTI-NUCLEAR CANDIDATE WINS ELECTION AT SITE OF WORLD'S BIGGEST ATOMIC POWER STATION

The election became a litmus test for nuclear safety and put Abe's energy policy and Tepco's handling of Fukushima back under the spotlight... READ MORE›

HALF OF AMERICA'S NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS SEEN AS MONEY LOSERS

Nuclear power plants are getting paid 20 to 30 a megawatt-hour for their electricity, Nicholas Steckler, an analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said in a report Wednesday... READ MORE›

SCRAPPING HINKLEY FOR RENEWABLE ALTERNATIVES WILL SAVE 'TENS OF BILLIONS'

A final investment decision by EDF on the nuclear power plant's expansion is expected in May... READ MORE›

FAILING NUCLEAR POWER IS GOOD FOR COAL, BAD FOR EARTH

This third option calls for a quadrupling of 2015 U.S. nuclear power production... READ MORE›

JAPAN PICTURES LIKELY SHOW MELTED FUKUSHIMA FUEL FOR FIRST TIME

3 reactor pressure vessel at Fukushima, which is likely to contain melted fuel, according to Takahiro Kimoto, an official at the company... READ MORE›

CAMERAS REVEAL THE SECRET LIVES OF CHERNOBYL'S WILDLIFE

Commenting on the herds of Przewalski's horses, Dr Wood observed They seem to have adapted quite well to life within the zone... READ MORE›

NEW BLOW FOR HINKLEY POINT CONTRACTOR EDF AFTER FRENCH SAFETY CHECKS

Safety issues force many reactors offline with warnings of power cuts across France, higher energy prices and a rise in emissions... READ MORE›

FUKUSHIMA KEEPS FIGHTING RADIOACTIVE TIDE 5 YEARS AFTER DISASTER

Mr. Ikeda's last job at Fukushima involved the destruction of used protective coveralls... READ MORE›

ROGUE SUN COULD WIPE OUT LIFE ON EARTH

Still, falling water levels in the storage pool caused anxiety that the fuel rods within could be exposed to the atmosphere... READ MORE›

JAPAN CAPTURES MORE PHOTOGRAPHS OF LIKELY MELTED FUKUSHIMA FUEL

3 reactor containment vessel at Fukushima, which is likely to contain melted fuel, according to Takahiro Kimoto, an official at the company... READ MORE›

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WORKERS TO JOIN STRIKE

Workers at French nuclear power stations are due to join a strike over labour reforms that has already paralysed oil refineries and triggered fuel shortages... READ MORE›

HOW TO CLEAN UP HUNDREDS OF TONS OF MELTED NUCLEAR FUEL

More than six years after three nuclear reactors melted down in Japan, the country is homing in on the lost fuel inside one of them... READ MORE›

SOUTH KOREA SURVEY BACKS RESTARTING CONSTRUCTION OF TWO NUCLEAR REACTORS

The suspension was one of President Moon Jae-in's key campaign pledges to allay public worry over nuclear power... READ MORE›

THREE MILE ISLAND TO CLOSE 40 YEARS AFTER NUCLEAR ACCIDENT

In 1994 a protester drove through the gates of Three Mile Island, causing the company to spend more than 1m ?777,000 on security upgrades... READ MORE›

INSPECTORS FIND SAFETY IRREGULARITIES AT CREUSOT NUCLEAR FORGE IN FRANCE

Evidence of doctored paperwork found at Areva-owned forge, which has made parts for Hinkley Point... READ MORE›

CHINAS NUCLEAR VISION COLLIDES WITH VILLAGERS FEARS

By 2030, officials want nuclear power to generate up to 10 percent of China's electricity... READ MORE›

JAPAN RESTARTS FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR SINCE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER

Sendai nuclear plant in southern Japan is first to begin operation since 2011 Fukushima meltdowns, despite anti-nuclear protests... READ MORE›

TIME LAPSE COLOSSAL CHERNOBYL SHELTER SLIDES INTO PLACE

"Radioactive dust inside the structure is being blown out through the cracks," Sergiy Paskevych of Ukraine's Institute of Nuclear Power Plant Safety Problems told AFP... READ MORE›

FUKUSHIMA EVACUEE TO TELL UN THAT JAPAN VIOLATED HUMAN RIGHTS

Mitsuko Sonoda will say evacuees face financial hardship and are being forced to return to homes they believe are unsafe... READ MORE›

Still, falling water levels in the storage pool caused anxiety that the fuel rods within could be exposed to the atmosphere... READ MORE›

JAPAN PAYS WORKER WHO GOT CANCER AFTER FUKUSHIMA

The ministry said the worker was exposed to 15.7 millisieverts of radiation during his 14 months at Fukushima Daiichi... READ MORE›

FUKUSHIMA RESIDENTS TORN OVER NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE PLAN

Japan has since allocated more than 15 billion to an unprecedented project to lower radiation in towns around the plant, such as Okuma... READ MORE›