The Latest Breaking News from Nuclear Power

Three days before a vote to choose their region's next governor, a handful of residents in Kashiwazaki, a sleepy coastal town in northern Japan, stood by a road to hear the race's long-shot contender warning of the dangers of nuclear power.

Japan will take firm steps to restart idled nuclear power plants to make maximum use of nuclear power to stabilise energy prices and supply, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Friday.

A Tokyo court has begun hearings in a lawsuit seeking nearly $5 million in damages for six people who were children in Fukushima at the time of its 2011 nuclear power plant disaster and later developed thyroid cancer

Severn Edge bid for sites at Oldbury and Berkeley former power stations remains "very positive"

The Russian-appointed head of the occupied Ukrainian town next to Europe's largest nuclear power plant was injured in an explosion on Sunday, a Ukrainian official and a Russian news agency said.

Research into costs of proposed Suffolk power station could further inflame debate over UK nuclear power

The leader claimed that there had been a surge in foreign attacks against Russia since the beginning of his "special operation" in Ukraine

The U.S. energy secretary is visiting a nuclear power plant in Connecticut at the invitation of the local congressional member as both work to change how spent nuclear fuel is stored nationwide to solve a decadeslong stalemate

The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency has stressed the importance of transparency after visiting the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, where he observed preparations for the release of treated radioactive wastewater that has prompted concerns inside and outside Japan

The Prime Minister has now put his weight behind new nuclear power stations in Snowdonia and Anglesey

French energy giant EDF outlined the continuing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the nuclear plant project in Somerset