Global Zero Proposes Arms Cuts

Proponents of a plan to rid the world of nuclear weapons proposed yesterday that Russia and the United States agree to an interim step in which they each cut their arsenals to 1,000 strategic warheads by 2018...
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UK To Consider Deterrent Alternatives

Faced with a looming budget cut, the British Defense Ministry is considering alternatives to the $33 billion plan to replace the nation's nuclear deterrent within 15 years, the London Telegraph reported Saturday...
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Senate to Consider Climate Bill

President Barack Obama, fresh from his first legislative victory on climate policy, expressed confidence on Monday that new greenhouse gas emission limits would become law with help from the U.S. Senate...
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Nulcear Facility Dead

The U.S. Energy Department made official Monday its plan to scrap a Bush administration initiative that could have brought a major nuclear fuel reprocessing facility to South Carolina...
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New Nuclear Units at STP

After three years of study, CPS Energy has recommended the expansion of the South Texas Project (STP) nuclear power plant as part of a diversified plan to meet San Antonio’s long-term electricity needs...
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GNEP Gets Another Fatal Blow

The US Department of Energy is cancelling the wide-ranging environmental analysis of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) project. Its decision follows a change in government policy on commercial reprocessing...
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Carbon Cap-and-Trade Passes House

The American Clean Energy and Security Act was passed by Congress on 26 June and now goes to the Senate after which President Barack Obama could sign it into law. The bill contains a slew of incentives and targets concerning carbon capture and storage, electric cars and the smart grid. The most significant however is the specification of a series of milestone emission caps...
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Reactor Vessel Head Traveling to Texas

The massive component, five metres across, ten metres high and weighing 100 tonnes, was manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) at its Kobe shipyard for use at the first reactor at the South Texas Project nuclear power plant...
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Anti-Nukes in Texas

When NRG Energy submitted its application to the federal government to build two new nuclear power plants in this coastal town, it didn't account for the possibility the plant could be rammed by a large passenger jet...
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US Nuclear Appeal to Iran

The Obama administration last month addressed the continued nuclear standoff with Iran in a letter to that nation's supreme leader, the Washington Times reported today...
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Replacement Warhead as Life Extension

The United States should consider a three-pronged strategy -- including warhead replacement -- to successfully maintain its aging nuclear arsenal, a senior U.S. nuclear complex official last week...
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Iranian Protests to Influence Nuclear Policy?

U.S. officials and experts disagreed on whether the large-scale protests ripping through Iran could encourage the nation to negotiate a halt to its disputed nuclear activities, the Washington Times reported today...
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Third Round of START Talks

U.S. and Russian diplomats this week launched a third round of talks aimed at negotiating a replacement for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, Agence France-Presse reported...
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NRG Lawsuit Dismissed

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by NRG Energy Inc. against Exelon Corp., saying NRG failed to prove Exelon made false statements in its continuing offer for the merchant power generator...
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100 Reactors?

Sen. Bob Bennett says the path to a clean energy future isn't by capping and trading carbon emissions, but by building, building, building...
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GE-Hitachi Nuclear Fuel Center

Research that GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is conducting here offers a timely solution to growing stocks of used nuclear fuel stored at nuclear power plants, a company executive told Congress this week...
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Major Exelon Upgrades

Exelon Corp. plans to add the generating capacity of a new nuclear reactor without building a nuclear reactor...
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Al-Qaeda With Nukes?

A senior Al-Qaeda operative said the terrorist organization would use Pakistan's nuclear weapons to strike the United States if it had the chance to do so, Reuters reported today...
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New U.S. Nuclear Detectors Show Same Weakness as Older Technology

U.S. congressional auditors today said the Homeland Security Department's new nuclear-detection technology does not improve much upon its predecessor in at least one critical fashion, the Associated Press reported...
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IAEA Intelligence Capabilities?

A former U.S. official's concept for expanding intelligence functions at the International Atomic Energy Agency is garnering some interest but appears unlikely to be implemented anytime soon, according to several nonproliferation experts...
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Duke to Build Nuclear Plant in Ohio

Duke Energy Corp is considering the construction of a new nuclear power reactor in Ohio to generate carbon free electricity and meet the region's growing energy needs, said Jim Rogers, Duke chief executive officer, at a conference in Piketon, Ohio on Thursday...
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Pakistan Won't Support CTBT

Pakistan yesterday said it did not intend to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Kyodo News reported...
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Nuke Power in Ohio

A new alliance of energy companies officially kicked off a plan yesterday to build a nuclear power plant in southern Ohio, saying it's the right approach for the nation's energy needs at the right location...
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ITER Milestone

An experimental reactor that could harness nuclear fusion, the power that fuels the Sun, will begin operation in southern France in 2018, the project's governing body announced Thursday.
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Fuel Bank Not Universally Embraced

A uranium fuel supply plan hailed by U.S. President Barack Obama as a way to stem the spread of nuclear arms stalled in talks at the U.N. atomic watchdog on Thursday after resistance from developing nations...
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Senate Panel Approves Energy Bill

A Senate committee on Wednesday approved an energy bill that would open large tracts of the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling and provide federal loan guarantees for a gas pipeline project in Alaska...
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New Nuclear Plant in Ohio

An impressive lineup of energy-company executives and politicians will converge on the southern Ohio village of Piketon today to announce plans for a multibillion-dollar nuclear power plant there...
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Duke Power High on Nuclear

The construction of new nuclear power plants would be the only viable way for Duke Energy to meet increasing electricity demand should carbon emission taxes be introduced...
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Secretary Chu Sees Nuclear in the Mix

Solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and carbon-dioxide capture rank high on President Barack Obama's priority list for developing "renewable" energy. But so does nuclear power."Nuclear has to be part of the mix," Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Monday. "It's clean, base-load energy."...
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Nuclear Terror- The Day After

If a terrorist nuclear bomb destroyed the heart of a great city, how would we know who did it, with what? Mideast fanatics with a device improvised from stolen uranium? A weapon smuggled in by a rogue regime? A hijacked U.S. bomb?...Read Article.

Boost in Nonproliferation Funds

A key U.S. House of Representatives committee unanimously endorsed legislation yesterday that would authorize up to $433 million in additional fiscal 2010 funding for nonproliferation programs at the Defense and Energy departments...
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No HEU Medical Isotope Production

Medical and nonproliferation experts yesterday urged U.S. lawmakers to fund facilities for production of crucial medical isotopes that would not employ weapon-usable highly enriched uranium...
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Congress Support for Homeland Security Technology

House appropriators have approved most of what the Obama administration requested for Homeland Security technology programs and even gave it credit for "some hard decisions" not to seek money for certain efforts...
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U.S. to Award $9M for Nuclear Education

Secretary Steven Chu announced nearly $9 million in awards to support the next generation of American nuclear energy development...
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Four Utilities to Revive Nuclear Industry

Four power companies are expected to split $18.5 billion in federal financing to build the next generation of nuclear reactors -- the biggest step in three decades to revive the U.S. nuclear industry ...
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Sanctions Would Be Declaration of War

North Korea's government-operated newspaper yesterday said the reclusive nation would treat any U.N. sanctions as a declaration of war and "take due corresponding self-defense measures," the Associated Press reported ...
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Indonesia Will Ratify CTBT, but...

Indonesia yesterday pledged to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty once the United States does so, Agence France-Presse reported ...
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Nuclear Graduates on the Rise!

The number of US students earning nuclear engineering degrees has increased for the fifth year in a row...
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