Tag: Nuclear Energy

NY’s Indian Point shuts 1 of 2 reactors to refuel

Washington Examiner · February 24, 2014 9:32 pm

This photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) shows radioactive water leaked from a tank at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Highly radioactive water has overflowed from a storage tank, but the operator says it did not reach the Pacific Ocean. The operator, TEPCO said Thursday that the leak involved partially treated water from early in the crisis, meaning it was more toxic than previous leaks. Three reactors melted at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, with radioactive water partially recycled and stored in more than 1,000 tanks. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co. )(AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co. )

Energy and Environment

Highly radioactive water leaks at Japan nuke plant

Washington Examiner · February 20, 2014 12:54 pm

The Energy Department announced Wednesday that it is closing on a multi-billion dollar federal loan guarantee to help finance construction of the first new nuclear reactors in the United States in more than three decades. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Energy and Environment

Energy Department approves multibillion loan to back new nuclear plants

Zack Colman · February 19, 2014 5:00 am

The U.S. is building few traditional large nuclear plants like this one and is instead focusing on developing smaller reactors.

Energy and Environment

Energy Department to OK $6.5b for Georgia nuke plant

Matthew Daly · February 19, 2014 5:00 am

The Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia is the only large nuclear power plant under construction in the U.S., after years of cost overruns and project delays.

AP sources: DOE to OK $6.5B for Georgia nuke plant

Matthew Daly · February 19, 2014 1:51 am

Whistle-blower fired from Hanford nuclear site

Nicholas Geranios · February 18, 2014 11:39 pm

Hungary lawmakers OK Russia nuclear plant deal

Pablo Gorondi · February 6, 2014 7:22 pm

FILE - This is a Wednesday May 23, 2007 file photo of the Sellafield Nuclear Power Station in Sellafield, England. Sellafield said in a statement Friday Jan. 31, 2014 it had found "elevated levels of radioactivity at one of the on-site radiation monitors at the north end of the site." It is being operated with reduced staffing. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson, File)

UK nuclear alert: naturally occurring radiation

Gregory Katz · January 31, 2014 2:31 pm

Hundreds sue makers of Fukushima nuclear plant

Mari Yamaguchi · January 30, 2014 3:14 pm

Regulators OK tweak in Neb nuke plant’s flood plan

Josh Funk · January 29, 2014 10:13 pm

North Korean Ambassador to China Ji Jae-ryong speaks at a press conference held at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

US official: North Korea nuclear reactor restarted

Matthew Pennington · January 29, 2014 9:06 pm

Energy and Environment

Graveyard for former parts of nuclear reactors in West Texas

Washington Examiner · January 21, 2014 5:00 am