nuclear power

Public accounts committee says ignorance, incompetence and weak oversight to blame. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has a perpetual lack of knowledge about the state and location of…

Engineering firm is part of consortium pushing for government backing. Rolls-Royce says it can create 6,000 UK jobs within five years if the government backs its plans to build small nuclear…

Africa’s contribution to the field of nuclear non-proliferation has long been ignored. It is time to recognise and embrace it. On October 24, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (the…

Ecologists do not share the government's optimism about Astravets. pid changes is that Belarus’ first nuclear power plant is located outside the town. Its construction is now coming to an end and it…

Plans to release over a million tonnes of water into the sea ‘will have serious, long-term consequences’ environmental group says. Contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan …

Hinkley Point C building site waste due to be dumped in sea near Cardiff. The builders of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station must be completely open about the potential environmental impact…

Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) annually adjusts its symbolic Doomsday Clock, which indicates how close humanity and the planet are to complete disaster. This year, we’re…

TerraPower and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy launch the Natrium concept, which pairs five hours of storage and a sodium fast reactor. TerraPower, the Bill Gates-backed nuclear innovation firm, has…

Exclusive: EDF Energy to close Hunterston next year after spending £200m on repairs. Hunterston nuclear power station, one of the UK’s oldest remaining nuclear plants, is to close down next year,…

The UK government has announced £40 million of funding to unlock thousands of green jobs by developing the next generation of nuclear energy technology. The government have said that £30 million of…

The European Union is split over which fuels deserve support from the bloc’s flagship green transition fund, after lawmakers on Monday (6 July) called for rules that could allow the money to be spent…

Halting Huawei hurts 5G rollout and Sino-British ties, but stopping a Chinese nuclear power plant in Essex has virtually no fallout. Get ready for the “new Huawei” is the word from Westminster,…

Chinese glaciologists have found the freeze-thaw process has concentrated discharge from the disaster. The Fukushima nuclear accident has added a distinctive signature to snow and ice across the…

Environmentalists have welcomed news that the 43-year-old Fessenheim reactor will close, nine years after it was first planned. France’s oldest nuclear power plant will shut down on Tuesday after…

China probably won’t hit its nuclear energy target this year, but that’s unlikely to derail a broader ambition to become the planet’s chief proponent of the climate-friendly fuel by the end of the…

Generating power without harmful carbon emissions has never been more urgent, yet one of the biggest sources of clean power is struggling to turn a profit. The nuclear industry has been vying for a…

Witnesses accuse government of covering up severity of blaze near site of nuclear disaster. Wildfires in Ukraine have spread to just over a mile from the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant and a…

BANGKOK: Regional aspirations for a swift transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy are likely to be dashed by the economic and market crises triggered by the global COVID-19 outbreak, experts…

Japan is pushing ahead with a fuel source that’s exacerbating climate change. Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, is leaning into coal power, a striking move at a time when the climate crisis…

Mini nuclear reactors could be generating power in the UK by the end of the decade. Manufacturer Rolls-Royce has told the BBC's Today programme that it plans to install and operate factory-built…