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PLANS FOR WELSH NUCLEAR POWER PLANT DELAYED BY CONCERNS OVER SEABIRDS
The Welsh plant would have a capacity of 3GW, similar to the 3.2GW of the nuclear power station being built at Hinkley Point in Somerset... READ MORE›
COAL GENERATOR THAT TRUMP TRIED TO SAVE FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
Few have embodied the struggle as much as FirstEnergy Solutions, which owns a fleet of coal and nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania... READ MORE›
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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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
JAPAN PM ABE CALLS SNAP ELECTION
Mr Abe has also strongly advocated restarting Japan's nuclear power generation plants, all of which were shut down amid public anger after the Fukushima disaster in 2011... 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›
A RADIATION CLOUD AND A MYSTERY FROM RUSSIA
A Radiation Cloud, and a Mystery, From Russia... READ MORE›
S KOREA HOLDS CYBER DRILL AFTER HACK
South Korea has in the past blamed North Korea for hacks on banks, government websites and broadcasters... 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›
'THIS IS NO PLACE FOR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT'
Occupying 4.2 sq km of land along the Japan Sea coast, it is the biggest nuclear power plant in the world... 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›
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›
FIRST THYROID CANCER CASE IN JAPAN RECOGNIZED AS FUKUSHIMA-RELATED & COMPENSATED BY GOVT
He was present at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant during the March 11, 2011 meltdown... 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›
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›
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›