The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in the United States has approved the life extension for the 1,268-megawatt Perry ...

Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse’s advocacy for nuclear energy is being credited with securing a key win for the Tri-Cities and ...

The Fukushima accident prompted a pullback from atomic power in Japan, with the power source falling from 30 per cent of the ...

The BWRX-300 has a 10 th generation design which builds on real-world boiling water reactor operating experience. It uses natural circulation and passive cooling isolation condenser systems to ...

In the proverbial shadow of the Naughton Power Plant, a station in Kemmerer, Wyoming, that will stop burning coal at the end ...

Both the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers remain above recommended nitrate levels, at 12.25 mg/L and 13.99 mg/L, respectively.

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--The No. 2 reactor at the Onagawa nuclear power plant resumed operations here on Oct. 29, the first reactor damaged in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and ...

Water cooled reactors have played a significant role in the commercial nuclear industry since its beginnings and currently account for more than 95 per cent of all operating civilian power reactors in ...

Nordic energy firm Fortum has entered an early works agreement with GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) to advance the ...

New York is home to the nation's oldest nuclear reactor - Nine Mile Point's Unit 1 - which has been around since 1969.

The remaining five reactors, which started commercial operations between 1985 and 1994, are all conventional boiling water reactors capable of generating 1.1 million kilowatts individually.

The restart of the boiling water reactor will be the second of such units since reactors of the same type were crippled in the March 2011 nuclear accident.