The country’s powerful nuclear sector has the unflinching support of French President Nicolas Sarkozy .

Bulgaria opened a new facility to store used nuclear fuel from Kozloduy power plant in May 2011.

Temperatures rose unexpectedly in one of the reactors at the embattled Fukushima nuclear power plant this week.

Emails posted on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission website after the Fukushima disaster last March have revealed the agency was kept in the dark about the scale of the crisis.

Czech nuclear expansion should be much more moderate than originally thought, including only an enlargement of one of the two existing nuclear plants and extending the life of the other, Industry and Trade Minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

Danger: This April 10 image released the next day by Tokyo Electric Power Co. shows the hydrogen blast-damaged reactor 4 building at the Fukushima No.

Minneapolis , Minnesota , NRC , nuclear power , Nuclear Regulatory Commission , Prairie Island , Radioactive Tritium , Xcel Energy , Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island Nuclear Plant MINNEAPOLIS – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says a spill of radioactive tritium at Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island Nuclear Plant was so small the utility wasn’t required to … (more)

Trace amounts of a radioactive element found in fish near the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant have now been found in bass in an opposite corner of the state, apparently clearing the plant of any tie to the contamination, a state health official said.

Radioactive nuclear fuel rods at Savannah River National Laboratory. White cobweb-like material appears near top of some containers.

Washington, Feb 7 : Underlining its commitment to implementing their landmark nuclear deal, India has assured “a level playing field to US companies” and said it was prepared to address their concerns within the framework of its civil nuclear liability law.

The following is the text of an email to San Clemente Patch from Southern California Edison Spokesman Gil Alexander offering updates on the continuing repairs and inspections at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

But the picture changes dramatically as you come closer. Parts of the islands are covered in concrete and the vegetation usually found in the Tuamoto archipelago has given way to aito trees, a form of she-oak. “At home on Tuamoto we depend on the island for our livelihood but here it is dead,” says an indignant Tuamotuan.

Glencore International Plc’s agreed 39.1 billion pound- takeover of Xstrata Plc, making it the world’s biggest thermal coal exporter, poses a new threat to Japanese utilities forced to buy more of the fuel after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

A handout photograph shows the Unit 2 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station in Fukushima, Japan.

Scientists are investigating a bizarre white cobweb found on nuclear waste – amid fears it could have been made by a ‘mutant’ spider.

What: A panel discussion on a nuclear power plant that was almost built in view of Olana.

Nuclear Secrecy With $8 Billion On the Line: SACE Continues Fight To Force Disclosure of U.S. Taxpayer-Backed Federal Loan Guarantees to Risky Vogtle Reactor Project As Final Arguments Are Filed, Southern Co., Obama Administration Fight FOIA Request to Figure Out Danger to Taxpayers in the Event of Default in Deal More Than 12 Times the Size of … (more)

The San Onofre nuclear power plant came under renewed scrutiny last week after a small radiation leak and the discovery of extensive tube damage.

Fermi 2, which went online in 1988, has contributed to increased cancer rates in Monroe County, opponents say.

Read Monday’s Vancouver Sun for your guide to what’s hot this week in TV, music and movies, including Vancouver’s Ryan Reynolds co-starring in the film Safe House.

A CARBON price alone will not be enough for Australia to meet its target of a dramatic cut in greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, an analysis by the Grattan Institute has found.

WAM Abu Dhabi, Feb 05th, 2012 — The Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation has invited the public to review and comment on its new guide, which focusses on designing and operating a nuclear power plant.

An erial view of Artificial Island in Lower Alloways Creek Township shows the proposed site where PSEG Nuclear says it could potentially build a new reactor in the future.

Leaks of radioactive water have become more frequent at Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant, less than two months after it was declared stable.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week told TVA and other nuclear plant operators to reassess the earthquake risks at each of their reactors.

A total of 573 deaths have been certified as “disaster-related” by 13 municipalities affected by the crisis at the crippled Fukushima No.

Crucial components that contain high-pressure, radioactive water at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station are, in many places, nearly too worn to function, said an Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman.

The North County Times reported Friday morning that a worker fell into nuclear reactor water last week, but the fuel had been removed: A worker at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station fell inside the plant’s Unit 2 reactor pool last week, but officials determined he did not suffer significant radiation exposure.

Three Japanese towns would be willing to restart their nuclear reactors if they pass government stress tests, two were against the idea but most were undecided, a newspaper survey suggested on Saturday.

Inspectors are waiting for the 105 degree temperature inside a nuclear reactor to drop enough to make it safe for workers and equipment to get inside and inspect a tube leak that prompted operators to shut down a nuclear plant on the California coast, officials say.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has denied a majority of fire safety exemption requests made by Entergy Nuclear for Indian Point Power Plants in Buchanan.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Illinois Emergency Management Agency officials say lab tests show no measureable increase of radiation after steam was released to cool a northern Illinois nuclear reactor.

Boosters used to talk of a resurgence in the market for nuclear energy as concerns about reliance on fossil fuels and the harmful effects of greenhouse gases mounted, but recent events have put a decided damper on that enthusiasm.

Officials of Southern California Edison, which operates the facility and is a majority owner, insist that the plant is perfectly safe, but others say the mishaps are one more sign of problems.

Leaks of radioactive water have become more frequent at Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant less than two months after it was declared basically stable.

The Vogtle nuclear power plant near Augusta is in the midst of construction. Crews are preparing to build two new reactors.

If there is a gene that codes for argumentativeness, George Monbiot must have doubles.

Nuclear plants throughout the central and eastern United States must be reassessed within four years to determine how well they might withstand earthquakes, including plants in Illinois and Iowa where new geological data suggest earthquakes could be more frequent and intense than previously believed, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.

The trace amount of radioactive tritium released in steam to cool a reactor during a shutdown at an Illinois nuclear plant was not enough to present a danger to the public, according to the first estimates by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Federal regulators said Thursday that unusual wear has been found on dozens of virtually new tubes that carry radioactive water at Southern California’s San Onofre Unit 2 nuclear plant.

Ukrainian nuclear experts say Japanese evacuated from around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant should be able to return to their homes, unlike the Chernobyl area that remains a no-go zone 25 years after its accident.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has opened a public comment period on Grand Gulf nuclear power plant’s license to operate for another 20 years.

More than 8 tonnes of radioactive water leaked from a reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant but none reached outside the reactor building, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Thursday as it strives to ensure damaged reactors are stable enough for work to start on dismantling them.

The risk to public health from a severe nuclear power plant accident in the United States is “very small” because reactor operators should have time to prevent core damage and reduce the release of radioactive materials, U.S. nuclear regulators said in a study on Wednesday.

Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has created a new panel to investigate how to keep the 63-year-old Idaho National Laboratory and its nuclear energy mission alive and relevant.

A new government report is asking nuclear power plants in the east and central United States to reevaluate seismic risks near their facilities, saying that the new model will likely result in higher anticipated seismic risk than models used since 1980.

The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station shut down its Unit 3 Tuesday afternoon because sensors detected a leak in the unit’s steam generator tubes.

Tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste should begin their exodus from San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station – and scores of similar reactors nationwide – to secure interim storage sites, and then head for permanent disposal deep below the Earth’s surface, according to A a long-awaited report fromA The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear … (more)

A new report released by Environment New York contends that Indian Point Nuclear Power Plants are a threat to the drinking water of 11.3 million people in the New York metro area.

One of two reactors at the San Onofre nuclear power station in Southern California was shut down on Tuesday after a small leak was detected in a steam generator tube, but the incident posed no risk to the public or plant workers, the facility operator said.

Utility operators say they have shut down a reactor at the San Onofre nuclear power plant because of a possible leak, but there is no imminent danger.

In this March 16, 2011 photo, steam escapes from Exelon Corp.’s nuclear plant in Byron, Ill.

The Palisades nuclear plant could be considered one of the worst plants in the nation.

Nuclear reactors in the central and eastern U.S. face previously unrecognized threats from big earthquakes, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday.

Dungeness nuclear power station. Both the current and previous governments are under criticism for allegedly ‘politicising data’ that has informed energy policy.

Workers do some finishing work after one of the Vertical Concrete Containers used to store spent nuclear fuel rods is added to the ISFSI or Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation at the decommissioned Connecticut Yankee nuclear power plant.

Chennai, Jan 30 : The fourth round of talks at Tirunelveli between the central government’s expert panel on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project and the Tamil Nadu government’s panel Tuesday seemed headed for a deadlock, with a state panel member expressing unhappiness over the central panel’s working.

U.N. nuclear experts Tuesday gave their backing to stress tests aimed at showing Japan’s nuclear plants can withstand the sort of disasters that devastated the Fukushima plant last year, potentially bolstering a government campaign to restart idled reactors and avoid a summer power crunch.

U.N. nuclear experts on Tuesday gave their backing to stress tests aimed at showing Japan’s nuclear plants can withstand the sort of disasters that devastated the Fukushima plant last year, potentially bolstering a government campaign to restart idled reactors and avoid a summer power crunch.

An incident occurred Monday morning at the Byron Nuclear Generating Station, in northern Illinois, and was declared an “Unusual Event”, according to Wisconsin Emergency Management.

Exelon Nuclear says steam is being vented at its Byron Generating Station to reduce pressure.

BYRON, Ill. – A nuclear reactor at a northern Illinois plant shut down Monday after losing power, and steam was being vented to reduce pressure, according to officials from Exelon Nuclear and federal regulators.

Loss of power to a northern Illinois nuclear plant led to a shutdown of one unit and the venting of steam containing trace levels of Tritium, but Exelon says there is no danger to employees or nearby residents.

The legislative footprint of the 2012 General Assembly is beginning to take shape this week as a number of high-profile – read controversial – bills work their way through the committee process.

Gov. Terry Branstad says he’s open to legislation allowing MidAmerican Energy to bill customers for the cost of a proposed nuclear power plant before construction is complete.

Westinghouse will hold a job fair on Tuesday, in light of plans to expand its local nuclear components manufacturing facility.

The Salt Lake Tribune erroneously reported that Leaddog Capital, a company under scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission, was “backing” Blue Castle Holdings.

DUMMERSTON, Vt. — When President Barack Obama said, during his State of the Union speech, “But to create more of these clean energy jobs… that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country,” I literally howled.

The head of the UNs nuclear watchdog said the agency is considering opening a branch office in Fukushima to monitor efforts to contain the worlds worst atomic accident since Chernobyl, a report said.

The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s No.4 reactor building is seen before the removal of debris on the upper side of the unit in Fukushima prefecture, in this handout picture taken on September 22, 2011.

Wasdale Head, Lake District: The climber lifted a 100lb bale of straw above his head and strode around the barn, ready to take on all-comers like Kirk Douglas in the film The Vikings Wasdale Head Inn, the home of British rock climbing.

By embracing nuclear power, Southern Co. and some other U.S. utilities are hoping a to incrementally move the nation away from foreign oil.

The Prime Minister was interviewed via a video-link, from Tokyo. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks during a news conference following the East Asia Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

Jeffrey Merrifield, senior vice president, Shaw Power Group stands on the terrace of their Charlotte headquarters Wednesday, January 18, 2012.

Economy minister Yukio Edano said he does not expect any nuclear power plant to be operating this summer, but thermal power and conservation efforts should be enough for the nation to get by.

Anti-nuclear campaign group Boycott EDF targeted the UK headquarters of EDF Energy in central London this Friday at lunchtime as part of the national days of action called by the Climate Justice Collective’s Fuel Poverty Action campaign.

Despite the rush to get reactors back online and convince the public that Japan’s nuclear power generation facilities are safe, an advisor says the current checks of nuclear reactors in the country are “insufficient” and possibly unsafe.

The NuScale light water SMR uses natural convection currents to generate electricity and cool the core.

When a worker at Pallisades nuclear power plant walked out of the control room in October 2010 without following proper procedure, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission looked into it.

New submitter Required Snark writes “UC Davis researchers have found a mechanism where the sodium in sea water can cause uranium nano-particles to be released from nuclear reactor fuel rods.

It was detected on around a dozen people on Thursday as they prepared to leave a building which they were preparing for demolition.

The Bonneville Power Administration and NorthWestern Energy have agreed to look at collaborating on a 430-mile, 500-kV transmission line Blue ribbon panel calls for new approach to nuclear waste disposal; APPA, other industry stakeholders applaud A presidential commission called for a new strategy for managing spent nuclear fuel, including a … (more)

Stress test: A man shovels snow from a sidewalk near the nuclear plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, on Thursday.

Nuclear regulators are conducting a public meeting at Browns Ferry nuclear power plant Thursday to discuss a safety issue found during an inspection in May.

Without a centralized national repository for nuclear waste, the radioactive material is currently being kept at various sites across the country.