Mongolia Might Store Foreign Spent Nuclear Fuel, Senior U.S. Official Says

The Obama administration has held informal talks with Mongolia about the possibility that the Central Asian nation might host an international repository for its region's spent nuclear fuel, a senior U.S. diplomat said yesterday...
Read Article.

Experts Differ Over U.S. MOX Fuel Plan

Debate persists among experts over a U.S. plan to convert 34 metric tons of excess weapons plutonium to nuclear power plant fuel at a $5 billion facility under construction in South Carolina, Scientific American reported on Friday...
Read Article.

Nuclear power industry ups outreach to Congress

The nuclear power industry has dramatically stepped up its outreach to Capitol Hill following Japan's nuclear power plant crisis as it works to combat calls for a moratorium on new plants...
Read Article.

Japan Reactor Crisis is Becoming More Stable, U.S. NRC Says

Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant “continues to further stabilize,” said Bill Borchardt, the executive director for operations at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
Read Article.

US Sending Robots to Japan to Help Nuclear Plant

The U.S. will send "radiation-hardened robotics" and cameras to help Japan stabilize the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japanese officials were "very, very interested" in determining the robots' capabilities, said Peter Lyons, an acting assistant energy secretary. Such machines could operate where radiation would harm people...
Read Article.

Cuomo says NRC to make Indian Point top priority

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is making a top priority of reviewing the Indian Point power plant located north of New York City near a geologic fault line...
Read Article.

Westinghouse Electric CEO on Safety of Nuclear Plants in U.S.

The U.S. nuclear industry boasts a "tremendous" safety record that resulted from "basically going overboard" on policy and criteria, said Aris Candris, president and CEO of Westinghouse Electric. Candris said the country's nuclear facilities are built to withstand earthquakes and tsunamis and that he doesn't expect U.S. policy reforms in the aftermath of the reactor crisis in Japan...
Read Article.

Japan Committed to Atomic Power as Renewable Energy Insufficient

Japan remains committed to nuclear power after a tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, leaking radiation, because the country needs non-polluting energy sources, the government’s nuclear safety spokesman said...
Read Article.

New British Subs to Use Safer Power Reactors

The United Kingdom will not consider installing in a new fleet of nuclear-armed submarines a reactor model that is in some fashions similar to the failed systems at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant, the London Guardian reported on Wednesday...
Read Article.

Pentagon Studying Additional Nuke Reductions

The U.S. Defense Department has received an Obama administration directive to consider if it is possible to make even deeper cuts to the nation's nuclear deterrent than those mandated by a new strategic arms control treaty with Russia, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday...
Read Article.