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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›
TSUNAMI OF DATA COULD CONSUME ONE FIFTH OF GLOBAL ELECTRICITY BY 2025
Data centres on their own could produce 1.9 gigatonnes Gt or 3.2 percent of the global total of carbon emissions, he says... READ MORE›
CHINA'S CARBON MARKET READY - BUT WAITING
There were 87 low carbon provinces and cities, 51 low carbon industrial parks and 400 low carbon communities in China which will peak sooner, he said... READ MORE›
SUBSIDY PLAN FOR COAL AND NUCLEAR PLANTS 'WILL COST US TAXPAYERS $10.6BN A YEAR'
Non-partisan analysis reveals the cost of energy secretary Rick Perry's proposal to give handouts to some of the country's oldest and dirtiest power plants... READ MORE›
SOUTH KOREA TO RESUME BUILDING TWO NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS, BUT SCRAPS PLANS FOR 6 OTHERS
The world's fifth-biggest nuclear energy user currently runs 24 nuclear reactors, generating a third of the country's total electricity needs... READ MORE›
SOUTH KOREA WILL RESUME NUCLEAR REACTOR WORK
South Korea Will Resume Reactor Work, Defying Nuclear Opponents... 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›
FRENCH AND BELGIAN NUCLEAR PLANTS VULNERABLE TO ATTACK, GREENPEACE WARNS
In France, several mystery drone overflights were reported at various nuclear plants in 2014... READ MORE›
TRUMP MAY HAVE FOUND PATHS TO SAVE COAL AND HOBBLE CLEAN ENERGY
One to prop up large traditional power plants and a second to impose tariffs on solar panels... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Department Of Energy
TRUMP MAY BE GOOD FOR OIL TROUBLE FORRENEWABLES
The president-elect has promised to promote oil, natural gas and coal aggressively, and pull back on Obama administration commitments to fighting climate change... READ MORE›
ENERGY MINISTER TO BE GIVEN MORE CONTROL IN STATE'S $500M PLAN TO SECURE FUTURE
Photo SA wants to secure its own interests, say Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis and Premier Jay Weatherill... READ MORE›
CLEAN ENERGY IS TROUNCING OIL, GAS AND COAL IN TRUMP ERA
President Donald Trump took office vowing to revive the coal industry's fortunes. So far, the smart money has been on clean energy... READ MORE›
ALL TSUNAMI ALERTS LIFTED AFTER 7.4 QUAKE ROCKS NORTHERN JAPAN
Japan lifted all tsunami alerts after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake off the coast of Fukushima, home to the nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 triple disaster... 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›
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›
HURRICANE IRMA POSES TOUGHEST TEST FOR U.S. NUCLEAR INDUSTRY SINCE FUKUSHIMA
The operator, Florida Power Light FPL, has said it will shut Turkey Point well before hurricane-strength winds reach the plant... 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›
ON THE BALLOT TWO CLASHING VISIONS OF HOW AMERICA WILL POWER ITS CARS HOMES
Critics have said Trump's plan to revive natural gas drilling would finish off the very coal industry he promises to restore, because the two fuels compete... 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›
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›
WORLD'S LARGEST SOLAR PLANT OPENS IN CALIFORNIA DESERT
If legislators adopt a 50 renewable energy mandate, it could incentivize massive projects like Desert Sunlight... READ MORE›
SWITCH FROM NUCLEAR TO COAL-FIRED POWER LINKED TO LOW BIRTH WEIGHT IN US REGION
Study reveals fall in birth weight in areas of the Tennessee Valley which had greatest boom in coal-fired power plant activity following nuclear closures... READ MORE›
COAL IS LOSING AN APPALACHIAN STRONGHOLD AS TRUMP FIGHTS BACK
At least six gas-fired plants are planned in the Ohio River Valley over the next four years... READ MORE›
COAL PLANTS USE AS MUCH WATER AS 1 BILLION PEOPLE AND CONSUMPTION SET TO DOUBLE
World Water Day research finds 44 percent of coal plants, and 45 percent of planned coal power plants, in areas of water stress... READ MORE›
UK APPROVES CHINESE-BACKED NUCLEAR PLANT, SETS TIGHTER CONTROLS
The project offers an insight into how Britain could conduct relations with the world in a post-Brexit era... 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›
BRITAIN FACES HUGE COSTS TO AVOID POWER SHORTAGES WITH ELECTRIC CAR PLAN
The cost of Hinkley Point C alone, the only nuclear power station now under construction in Britain, is estimated at 19.6 billion pounds... READ MORE›
CHINA TO TAKE ONE-THIRD STAKE IN A?24BN HINKLEY NUCLEAR POWER STATION
China to take one-third stake in A?24bn Hinkley nuclear power station... 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 DISAPPOINTED BY TRUMP'S DECISION TO QUIT PARIS AGREEMENT
America's announcement that it is pulling out of the Paris climate change agreement is regrettable... 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›
MYSTERY DRONES BREACH AIRSPACE ABOVE FRENCH NUCLEAR SITES
Another source told the paper that other sites, including a military nuclear location and one operated by Areva the state-run nuclear company were also targeted... READ MORE›
IN AMERICA'S COAL COUNTRY, STATES EMBOLDENED TO DITCH EFFICIENCY
Meanwhile, eight states including California, New York and Massachusetts are going a different direction, seeking to expand renewable energy mandates... READ MORE›
CHINA SCRAPS 85 COAL PLANTS IN PIVOT TO GREEN ENERGY
China scraps 85 coal plants in pivot to green energy -- RT Business... READ MORE›
CYBER-ATTACKS ON SOUTH KOREAN NUCLEAR POWER OPERATOR CONTINUE
We cannot let cyber-attacks stop nuclear power operation, Cho told a news briefing... READ MORE›
RIOT POLICE CRACK DOWN ON PARIS PROTESTS AGAINST LABOUR REFORMS
Thousands of protesters turn out on streets of French capital as refineries and nuclear power stations across the country come to a halt... READ MORE›
LEADING SCIENTISTS SAY THE WORLD MUST EMBRACE NUCLEAR POWER TO SAVE THE PLANET FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
Nuclear power can be done safely, and with a relatively small environmental footprint, said Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC... READ MORE›