U.N. Powers Weigh Iran Sanctions Ahead of Talks

Iran could face new economic penalties if it fails to move toward resolving disputes over its nuclear activities during multilateral talks Thursday with world powers, the United States warned yesterday...
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Thorium Power becomes Lightbridge

Thorium Power of the USA, which is developing thorium fuel technology for use in nuclear power plants, has decided to change its name to Lightbridge...
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AREVA Moves Nuclear Fuel Operations to Washington State

Areva plans to move its nuclear fuel operation in Lynchburg to a plant in Richland, Wash., affecting about 150 employees at its Mount Athos Road facility, the company said Tuesday. The transition to consolidate the fuel assembly manufacturing process into operations at a Richland plant will begin in spring 2010 and take about 18 months, Areva officials said...
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Republicans Call for More Nuclear Energy in Senate Climate Bill

A climate change bill circulating in the Senate on Tuesday is slightly more ambitious than one passed in the House of Representatives, but still has many details to be worked out on how to encourage companies to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases.Republicans take issue with the lack of support for nuclear power...
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Election Brings Hope for German Nuclear

Angela Merkel has been returned as Chancellor of Germany to form a pro-nuclear coalition and give nuclear power a future in the country. Once the rules are changed Germany will cease to be the most prominent country with anti-nuclear policies, leaving Spain, Australia and Belgium to fight for that title...
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Iran Said Testing New Centrifuge Design

A top Iranian nuclear official announced that his nation has begun tests of a re-engineered, higher-speed uranium enrichment centrifuge, Reuters reported today...
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Hopes for CTBT Conference are Modest

Participation this week by the United States in a conference intended to promote entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is a positive development but does not guarantee the summit will result in substantial gains for the pact, observers and those involved with the effort said...
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Plans for Next Generation Nuclear

Design and planning work worth up to up to $40 million is being offered towards the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP), which aims to use an advanced reactor to produce heat for industry...
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USA, South Africa Sign Nuclear R&D Agreement

South Africa's Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) and the USA's Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) have been identified as a potential area for cooperation between the two countries after they signed a new nuclear energy research and cooperation agreement. ..
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 Poll: STP nuclear expansion gains strong support in San Antonio

Results from a poll commissioned by Secure Energy & Economy for San Antonio (SEE SA) show that a slight majority of local residents support CPS Energy’s proposal to double capacity at the South Texas Project...
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NRC Resets Discussion on License-Renewal Process

Bowing to local pressure, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has agreed to reschedule a hearing to take public comment on generic rules governing the renewal of nuclear power plant licenses...
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Nuclear Regulator May Double Waste-Storage Period to 40 Years

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to double the period that nuclear power plants can store spent fuel on site to 40 years, as plans to build a permanent federal repository stall...
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Energy leaders to debate nuke issue in S.A.

Prominent energy experts from across the country will convene for a lunchtime forum toWednesday to debate CPS Energy’s proposed $5.2 billion nuclear expansion. The event, hosted by the San Antonio Clean Technology Forum at the Pearl Stables, was sold out but will be streamed live and archived for later viewing at NOWcastSA.org. The program is scheduled to start at 11:30 a.m....
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Stopping WMD Proliferation Remains Key, U.S. Intel Plan Says

Preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery technology remains a key objective of the U.S. intelligence community, according to a strategy document issued yesterday...
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Clinton to Lead U.S. Team at CTBT Conference

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to lead the U.S. delegation at a conference aimed at promoting entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the White House announced yesterday...
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NNSA Agrees to Emergency Operations Cooperation with Morocco and Iceland at IAEA General Conference

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) signed agreements with the Kingdom of Morocco and Iceland to cooperate to improve efforts to counter nuclear and radiological terrorism and promote international nuclear and environmental safety and security...
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Energy Secretary 'Optimistic' But Cautious

Steven Chu is an optimist. The secretary of energy, who won a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997, believes science can solve many of the nation's energy challenges.Chu knows cleaner coal, new nuclear power plants, more renewable energy — will take time. In a conversation with NPR's Steve Inskeep, he lays out ambitious plans for the country's energy future, including...
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Three Mile Island nears license renewal

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant passed its last milestone on its way to a 20-year license renewal Thursday following a meeting with the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, an advisory group to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
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NNSA Outlines Threat Reduction Activities

NNSA works with over 100 countries to fight against nuclear proliferation and terrorism, and has successfully completed the following projects aimed at reducing the threat of nuclear terror...
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Russia Questions North Korea's Uranium Enrichment Claim

Russia yesterday questioned North Korea's assertion that it has nearly acquired the capability to enrich uranium, the Xinhua News Agency reported...
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Tensions Persist in U.S. Over START Replacement

While U.S. President Barack Obama remains committed to replacing the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, some administration officials as well as military officials, lawmakers and weapons scientists have differing opinions on making major cuts to the nation's nuclear arsenal, the New York Times reported yesterday...
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Nuclear-free world ultimate aim of new cross-party pressure group

A cross-party group of UK ex-ministers and former generals will be launched next month to push for global nuclear disarmament. The group, chaired by a former defence secretary, Des Browne, will seek to rally European support for a US-led initiative to work towards the abolition of nuclear weapons through radical, co-ordinated cuts in the arsenals of existing nuclear states, in an effort to persuade emerging powers to forgo such weapons...
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Seize nuclear or miss targets, investment: IAEA

Some countries that fail to invest in nuclear power for political or financial reasons will be unlikely to meet emissions targets and could miss out on investment as companies build abroad, an IAEA expert said...
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Arab states race for nuclear power

Amid the gathering storm over Iran's controversial nuclear ambitions, the race is on among Arab states to build nuclear power plants of their own, opening up immense trade opportunities for the industrialized world as well as the specter of proliferation...
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Nuclear power poised to help meet demands of climate change legislation

Nuclear energy and other clean energy technologies can help jumpstart our economy and make America a world leader in low-carbon energy. American manufacturers will benefit because construction of new nuclear power plants will create demand for thousands of components and commodities like concrete and steel...
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North Korea Says Close to Uranium Enrichment Capability

“Experimental uranium enrichment has successfully been conducted to enter into completion phase,” Pyongyang's delegation at the United Nations reportedly stated in a letter to the head of the U.N. Security Council...
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Pakistan Seeks Additional Nuclear-Weapon Capabilities, Analysts Assert

Pakistan is seeking to build better nuclear weapons and developing new missiles suitable for carrying nuclear warheads, Robert Norris of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists wrote in the latest edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists....
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GE Hitachi advances new nuclear reactor design

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy said on Wednesday it has submitted the revised design documents for its Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
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Energy Solutions: We're in talks with state on nuke waste issue

EnergySolutions Inc. said Friday it is in settlement talks with Utah aimed at getting the state to drop its objections to importing foreign nuclear waste for disposal in the state. . .



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Nuclear Energy Becomes Part of China-U.S. Talks, Official Says

Talks between the U.S. and China, the biggest producers of greenhouse gases, are evolving to include sharing expertise in nuclear-energy technology...
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Reactor opponents challenge law funding work

A group opposed to reactors on environmental grounds is using a legal challenge to the financing mechanism granted to Georgia Power during the past legislative session as a way to prevent what it considers to be an ecological mistake...
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Manufacturing community supports CPS Energy’s expansion of nuclear power

The San Antonio Manufacturers Association is strongly supporting CPS Energy’s plans to expand the South Texas Project nuclear power plant...
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More Indian Nuke Tests Possible, Expert Says

One U.S. expert expressed no surprise at an Indian scientist's call for his nation to conduct further nuclear tests, the Times of India reported today...
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Nuclear Agency Plans Recruitment Drive

The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration said yesterday it plans to roll out an initiative over the next half-year aimed at promoting interest in nuclear security careers...
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South Africa Gets Nuclear Safety Deal

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) of South Africa have agreed to work together on a nuclear accident programme, the US embassy said on Thursday...
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NRC: Information on Reactor's Design is Needed for Licensing Process

The process of licensing new reactors for Plant Vogtle and similar nuclear projects could be delayed because of the absence of data needed to certify the new reactor's design, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
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Climate change bill to boost nuclear plants

Nearly half of the nation's nuclear power plants stand to earn a windfall if the climate-change bill passed by the House becomes law...
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South Texas Project Expansion

San Antonians should have a much better idea by the end of the year about what the expansion of the nuclear South Texas Project will cost, NRG Energy CEO David Crane said...
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Univ Michigan Gets Research Funds to Study Aging of Reactors

The study of potentially dangerous cracks inside nuclear reactors is getting a $2.4 million boost under grants to the University of Michigan...
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South Korean nuclear export drive

Korea Electric Power Company is emerging as a reactor vendor and its units could perhaps be built in India after a set of agreements signed off yesterday in Mumbai...
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Non-Proliferation Homework in the Works

Leading powers are to meet in Frankfurt, Germany tomorrow to discuss non-proliferation and the status of the Iranian and Syrian nuclear programs ahead of the IAEA general conference....
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One-year setback for Nine Mile Point 3

Regulators will not begin work on an application to build a new reactor at Nine Mile Point for another year after Unistar Nuclear Energy concluded a 'sequence optimization' of the project...
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