60% of spent nuclear fuel in Japan to be stored in metal casks in the future, research shows
Over 60 percent of the some 15,200 tons of spent nuclear fuel in Japan could be stored in metal casks in the future, as the cooling pools that currently hold them are filling up, Kyodo News research showed Wednesday. The survey of utility companies' plans ...
Tepco says it will decommission nuclear reactors at Fukushima No. 2 plant
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. will decommission the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear plant, its president, Tomoaki Kobayakawa, told Fukushima Gov. Masao Ochibori at a meeting Wednesday. The facility is the second nuclear plant that the utility company has decided to decommission after accepting it ...
Iran to execute members of alleged CIA-trained spy network
Iran, locked in a worsening political standoff with Western powers, has handed down death sentences to several nationals accused of being part of a CIA-trained spy network uncovered earlier this year, an official said on Monday. Seventeen people were arrested in all, a senior intelligence ...
Deadly Russia nuclear sub fire could have caused 'catastrophe of global proportions'
A fire aboard a top-secret Russian nuclear submarine could have led to a "catastrophe of global proportions" if not for the selfless actions of the crew, a senior navy official was cited by a Russian media outlet as saying. Fourteen submariners were killed on July ...
Iran is far from hitting cap on enriched uranium, diplomats say
Iran has multiplied the speed at which it enriches uranium but it is still far from the maximum rate possible under its nuclear deal with major powers, meaning it would be months before production ceilings are hit, diplomats who follow it say. Against a backdrop ...
Pro-nuclear incumbent Shingo Mimura wins fifth term in Aomori gubernatorial election
Shingo Mimura, a pro-nuclear incumbent, won his fifth term in the Aomori gubernatorial election on Sunday, stressing his past achievements and focusing away from the area's involvement in the country's nuclear fuel recycling policy during campaigning. Mimura, 63, backed by the local chapter of the ...
Fukushima radioactive contaminants found as far north as Alaska's Bering Strait
Radioactive contamination from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant crippled by tsunami in 2011 has drifted as far north as waters off a remote Alaska island in the Bering Strait, scientists said on Wednesday. Analysis of seawater collected last year near St. Lawrence Island ...
Trump administration approved secret nuclear power tech sales to Saudi Arabia, document shows
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has approved six secret authorizations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, according to a copy of a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. The Trump administration has quietly pursued a wider deal on sharing ...
Africa sees nuclear power as answer to continent-wide electrification goal
In a damp office at Addis Ababa University, doctoral student Hailu Geremew fantasizes about working on the nuclear reactor his country is now pondering building. "Oh that is my dream, my dream, my dream," said the nuclear physicist, 32. Geremew is part of a new generation ...
The Hitachi Ltd. board decided Thursday to suspend a plan to build two nuclear reactors in the U.K. after facing difficulties in finding investors to help finance the ¥3 trillion ($27.5 billion) project. The freezing of the project in Anglesey in Wales would mean that ...
U.S. lawmakers seek oversight over any Saudi nuclear power deal
Lawmakers from both U.S. parties introduced legislation on Wednesday to give Congress more say in any deal on civil nuclear power cooperation between the United States and Saudi Arabia. The Trump administration is eager to strike a deal with Saudi Arabia to share nuclear power ...
