Nuclear energy is currently one part of the UK’s power resource and will continue to be so in the future, a sustainable website has claimed.
According to the Renewable Energy Centre (REC), nuclear energy is safer than it is perceived and cleaner than fossil fuels.
The UK needs to rely on different sources and energy to ensure [...]

PRAGUE (Dow Jones)–Czech power utility CEZ AS (BAACEZ.PR) and Slovak state-owned Nuclear and Decommissioning Company, or Javys, Friday signed a contract to form a joint venture to build a new nuclear power plant in Slovakia.
The new plant is expected to have a generating capacity of up to 1,600 megawatts and will be located 60 [...]

By Tom Doggett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has asked the federal futures market regulator to crack down on speculators whom he blamed for pushing up crude oil and gasoline prices.
The price for crude oil topped $66 a barrel on Friday, up more than 70 percent since mid-January. The rising oil costs have been [...]

MOSCOW, May 26 (Reuters) - Russia will seek global alliances to build a dominant position on the nuclear market as the world economic crisis dents the appeal of renewable energy, senior Russian officials said on Tuesday.
Russia, one of the world’s biggest nuclear players, this year signed deals to cooperate with Japan’s Toshiba (6502.T) and [...]

Sen. Ben Nelson
For more than a third of a century, Nebraska has been a leader in nuclear production and can serve as a model in addressing our Nation’s energy and environmental needs. While our state only has two nuclear plants — Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station north of Omaha and Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville — [...]

ROME (Dow Jones)–Energy ministers from the world’s eight richest nations Monday said they would increasingly emphasize nuclear energy and the creation of a common low-carbon technology platform as solutions to climate change and supply insecurity.
The statement comes as a number of countries, including the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, are turning their attention to once-unpopular [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Advocates say a nuclear power “renaissance” can solve global energy problems, but construction of new reactors in the U.S. faces a number of barriers, not the least of which is nuclear waste.
Delaware Senator Thomas Carper, who actively supports nuclear power, hosted a panel of experts on Monday to discuss nuclear waste at the Massachusetts [...]

By David Ehrlich - Earth2Tech
The idea of nuclear-in-a-box sounds like a joke, but investors and potential customers are taking Hyperion Power Generation very seriously — the company is valued at a whopping $100 million by investors, according to the Denver Post. The company is backed by Altira Group, and though Hyperion hasn’t disclosed [...]

NEW YORK–ASME, in collaboration with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE-USA), has issued a proclamation outlining critical national energy priorities and programs for the Obama Administration and the U.S. Congress to consider in the next several years. Twenty-one engineering societies, representing over one million engineers, have endorsed the “National Energy Policy Goals Proclamation” [...]

MICHIGAN is in the grip of a ferocious recession now, but the state’s energy providers are betting that, sooner or later, the economy will improve and the state’s demand for electric power will increase.
Building generating plants takes years, and various utilities have filed permit requests to construct five new coal-fired facilities, with three more requests [...]