Five nuclear power plants that have passed safety clearances may be at risk of having their cooling systems crippled during huge eruptions of nearby volcanoes, the nation's nuclear safety watchdog said Monday. The five plants are Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai and Genkai plants in ...
The way the NRA is wrapping up its safety screening of Tepco's bid to restart two idled reactors in Niigata Prefecture is less than convincing.
The policy-setting Atomic Energy Commission on Thursday called for nuclear power to remain a key component of the nation's energy supply despite broad public support for a less nuclear-reliant society. The commission recommended in a report that nuclear power account for at least 20 percent ...
The government begins a two-day disaster drill based on a hypothetical nuclear accident at Kyushu Electric Power Co.’s Genkai power station in Saga Prefecture.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority will soon start talks on clearing two reactors at Tokyo Electric’s giant Kashiwazaki-Kariya nuclear plant as safe for restarts.
A U.S. court on Thursday sentenced an American citizen to two years in prison for conspiring in the unlawful development of nuclear power technology in China, the Justice Department announced. Szuhsiung Ho, also known as Allen Ho, 66, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Taiwan, ...
The government continues to place too much emphasis on nuclear power despite the Fukushima crisis and negative public opinion.
The Energy Department, in a long-anticipated report on the security of the U.S. electric grid, makes the case for rescuing America's coal industry from widespread plant shutdowns but stops short of the assault on renewable power that environmentalists had feared. The study, commissioned by Energy ...
At first glance, the long hallway seems abandoned. But behind glass walls, in soundproof offices, engineers and physicists are putting the final touches to the Arab world's first nuclear program. At the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) in Abu Dhabi, dozens of employees are ...
On July 28, the central government released what it called a scientific, specialized map of the country highlighting areas where highly radioactive nuclear waste from the nation's power plants might, or might not, be safely buried underground for as long as 100,000 years. The multicolored ...
Students from Fukushima Prefecture have given a symphony orchestra concert in Bangkok to thank the Thai people for their support in Japan's recovery from the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. Through their performance at the Siam Pic-Ganesha Theater on Friday night, 40 members ...
Ibaraki Gov. Masaru Hashimoto said Thursday he will not consent to restarting the sole reactor at the Tokai No. 2 nuclear plant in the village of Tokai, which went offline in March 2011 after a nuclear disaster unfolded in neighboring Fukushima Prefecture. Hashimoto's pledge, coming ...
