Advances made by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory could enhance the ability of scientists to develop advanced nuclear fuels in a safer, simpler manner.
A plutonium waste reserve in the United Kingdom awaits reprocessing and sale, but in the wake of the Japanese nuclear disaster nobody wants it, officials say.
Ankara has temporarily suspended talks with Japan on building a nuclear plant in northern Turkey after Japan's nuclear disaster, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said Sunday.
Siemens has received 1.62 billion euros ($2.35 billion) for the sale of its 34-percent stake in its joint venture with French group Areva, a spokesman for the German industrial giant said Sunday.
Reactor maker Toshiba has told the government it could decommission four stricken units at Japan's crippled nuclear plant in around 10 years, a report said.
Japan ordered all its nuclear power operators to secure more emergency generators Saturday, after an earthquake temporarily reduced one facility to relying on just a single electricity source.
Four energy companies that run German nuclear plants said Saturday they have stopped payments to an environment fund after the government went back on its decision to keep the plants open for longer.
The International Atomic Energy Agency could review its mandate at a June meeting to enable the UN watchdog to better enforce nuclear safety rules, if member states agree, a top official said Thursday.
The long-standing conflicts over nuclear power and the risks of radiation exposure are nothing new - in fact, the debate over the damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi…
Researchers from Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory have an enhanced understanding of a common freshwater alga and its remarkable ability to remove strontium from water.
A low carbon nuclear future: Economic assessment of nuclear materials and spent nuclear fuel management in the UK explores possible future scenarios to…
German officials for several days said they believed that a science reactor had lost nuclear material that, if obtained by the wrong people, could be turned into a bomb.
Bulgaria and Russia agreed Tuesday to halt work on a new nuclear power plant in northern Bulgaria for a period of three months so as to resolve cost and safety issues.
Brazil says it is tightening safety procedures at its two nuclear power plants even though it is not prone to earthquakes or tsunamis like those that hit Japan.
US anti-nuclear groups Monday condemned a project to built a plant where plutonium from weapons would be reprocessed for use as fuel in nuclear power plants, saying the plan was costly, dangerous and would benefit mainly French group, Areva.
The head of General Electric, the US manufacturer of reactors at Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, on Monday said the nuclear industry has…
