US nuclear plants in several Southeastern states are readying for Hurricane Florence and may have to shut ahead of the arrival of hurricane-force winds, utilities said Tuesday. Receive daily email Continue Reading
California lawmakers have passed legislation mandating the replacement of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant’s 2.2 GW of capacity with greenhouse-gas-free generation, which the governor is expected to approve. The proposal Continue Reading
For a long time, it seemed that France, Europe’s leading nuclear power producer, will seek to decrease the share of nuclear in its energy matrix. The 2015 Energy Transition for Green Continue Reading
When Exelon’s Oyster Creek nuclear unit disconnects from the grid at the end of September and permanently shuts, it will mark the start of a busy period of US nuclear Continue Reading
With France bracing for more hot to very hot weather in the coming week, nuclear power plant operator EDF said Friday it plans to halt production completely at two of Continue Reading
This year’s unusually warm summer in the Nordic region has increased sea water temperatures and forced some nuclear reactors to curb power output or shut down altogether, with more expected Continue Reading
Everything about nuclear energy seems terrifically big: the cost, construction and decommissioning — and the fears of something going badly wrong. The future, however, may well be much smaller. Dozens Continue Reading
The Japanese nuclear disaster bathed north America in a radioactive cloud. Now pharmacologists have found the telltale signature in California wine made at the time. Throughout the 1950s, the US, Continue Reading
Providing financial support to uneconomic US coal and nuclear power plants, as the Trump administration has ordered, could cost $16.7 billion annually, according to a study commissioned by a group Continue Reading
The U.S. Energy Department says it is spending $1.2 million a day on a partially built South Carolina nuclear facility that it wants to abandon due to soaring costs. Congress Continue Reading
