The Energy Department made the rules public a month after NPR reported about their existence. The rules slash requirements ...

Six staff members from the U.S. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board held a community outreach event Feb. 26 in Aiken, ...

The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise ...

The IAEA is closely monitoring developments in the Middle East, and urges restraint to avoid any nuclear safety risks to ...

The White House is drafting plans to weaken the independence of the nation’s nuclear safety regulators and relax rules that protect the public from radiation exposure, moves it says are needed to jump ...

Ukraine warned that the three nuclear plants remaining under its operational control are close to their last line of safety buffers after Russian strikes degraded key power supplies.

On November 24, the Niigata Prefecture approved the partial restart of the seven-unit Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant—the world’s largest, with a 7,965-megawatt-electric capacity—the first time ...

Not long ago, I met a woman from Belarus. She told me about the terrible aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in April 1986. As a child, she’d had to evacuate her home, which was contaminated ...

Denying the appeal, the Federal Court of Appeal found CNSC’s decision – including its interpretation of the phrase “associated with the development, production or use of nuclear energy” in s. 10 of ...

In accordance with the Federal Law on the Use of Atomic Energy, the management of nuclear materials and radioactive substances during transport is one of the many elements involved in the atomic ...