Nuclear Power Plant

A senate inquiry examining whether Australia’s ban on nuclear energy should be lifted has been told it would take 10-15 years to have a power plant up and running if the moratorium was lifted right now.The Environment and Communications…

United Nations — The head of the United Nations' global nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, walked across the front line in Ukraine this week to inspect the damage to Europe's largest nuclear power plant.…

Xcel Energy cleaning up radioactive leak in Monticello…

Dnipro, Ukraine — Russia hit Ukraine on Thursday with its most punishing attacks in nearly a month. A barrage of missiles and explosive drones rained down in a blistering assault that struck cities from the capital Kyiv to the vital…

Paris — French energy group EDF has reported discovering a significant new crack in a cooling pipe at a nuclear power plant on the Channel coast, in the latest such incident to plague the energy sector.…

Outrage is growing over an “unjust” plan to dump more than a million tonnes of contaminated wastewater on Australia’s doorstep – within months.In 2011, Japan was rocked by the Fukushima nuclear disaster – the worst of its kind since…

The nuclear fusion breakthrough heralded on Tuesday was a historic event, culminating decades of research.At the same time, fusion power will not be contributing electricity to any power grid for at least a decade, according to most…

An artist rendering of the advanced nuclear power reactor demonstration project that Bill Gates' nuclear innovation company, TerraPower, plans to build in the frontier-era coal town, Kemmerer, Wyoming.Rendering courtesy…

Scientists, governments, and companies from around the world have been increasingly investing in a potential source of energy that could provide unlimited, clean power to everyone on Earth: nuclear fusion. Fusion is the process that…

Washington — The U.S. Department of Energy said Sunday it would announce a "major scientific breakthrough" this week, after media reported a federal laboratory had recently achieved a major milestone in nuclear fusion research. The…