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AS HARVEY RAGED, WORKERS SLEPT ON COTS TO KEEP NUCLEAR POWER ON
Teams of employees have been stationed at the South Texas Project power plant since early Friday... 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›
FATE OF NUCLEAR IN THE US NOW HINGES ON ONE UTILITY IN GEORGIA
With a multibillion-dollar nuclear project in South Carolina dead, the fate of America's nuclear renaissance now rests on one utility Southern Co... 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›
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›
RADIATION, RISK AND ROBOTS: RIPPING OUT A REACTOR'S HEART
Enter companies such as Areva, Westinghouse, Nukem Technologies, GE Hitachi as well as GNS, owned by Germany's four nuclear plant operators... 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›
IRAN AGREES TO DETAILED NUCLEAR OUTLINE FIRST STEP TOWARD A WIDER DEAL
Mr. Zarif and other Iranian officials may have an even harder political argument to win... 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›
LAW CHANGED SO NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS CAN BE FORCED ON LOCAL COMMUNITIES
Friends of the Earth's planning advisor, Naomi Luhde-Thompson, said Communities will be rightly concerned about any attempts to foist a radioactive waste dump on them... 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›
IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS: INTENSIVE TALKS BEFORE KEY DEADLINE
They want to impose limits that would prevent Iran from producing enough fuel for a nuclear weapon within a year... READ MORE›
BELGIUM FEARS NUCLEAR PLANTS ARE VULNERABLE
Experts say the most remote of the potential nuclear-related risks is that Islamic State operatives would be able to obtain highly enriched uranium... 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›
US SAYS SHIPPING URANIUM OUT OF IRAN IS STILL PART OF POSSIBLE NUCLEAR DEAL
Converting the material into fuel rods would make it extremely difficult for Iran to use the uranium to build a nuclear weapon... READ MORE›
IRAN HAS STOPPED DISMANTLING NUCLEAR CENTRIFUGES
Low-enriched uranium is used to fuel nuclear power plants, Iran's stated goal, but can also provide material for bombs if refined much further... 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›
IRAN HANDS OVER STOCKPILE OF ENRICHED URANIUM TO RUSSIA
Iran is still disassembling centrifuges, which enrich uranium, and disabling a plutonium reactor, among other steps that are required under the nuclear agreement struck in July... READ MORE›
COULD COLOUR-CHANGING CATS WARN OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE
Plans for a new fleet of UK nuclear power plants are under way... 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›
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›
GERMAN SCIENTISTS TO CONDUCT NUCLEAR FUSION EXPERIMENT
Scientists in Germany are poised to conduct a nuclear fusion experiment they hope will advance the quest for a clean and safe form of nuclear power... 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›
ARE MINI-NUCLEAR REACTORS THE ANSWER TO THE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS?
Industry figures say the cost of electricity from the first SMRs should be about the same as large nuclear power plants, then get cheaper... 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›
IRAN STARTS TAKING NUCLEAR CENTRIFUGES OFFLINE
Centrifuges spin at supersonic speed to increase the ratio of the fissile isotope in uranium... 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›
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›
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›
HOW IS FUKUSHIMA'S CLEANUP GOING FIVE YEARS AFTER ITS MELTDOWN? NOT SO WELL.
Read more Radioactive water from nuclear plant found leaking into sea Today's coverage from Post correspondents around the world... 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›
CHINA TO DEVELOP FLOATING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
Beijing may have come up with a solution floating nuclear power plants... READ MORE›
FORMER PRIME MINISTER KOIZUMI REITERATES CALL FOR JAPAN'S COMPLETE EXIT FROM NUCLEAR POWER
Japan can become a much better country with zero nuclear power plants, harnessing natural energy, Koizumi said... READ MORE›