Arizona Public Service, Salt River Project and Tucson Electric Power are considering nuclear energy, according to a Wednesday ...

Arizona's three largest electric utilities will jointly explore expanded nuclear-power options. A new plant here could be ...

On Thursday afternoon, Mayor Danny Avula said the failure of an automatic “switch-gear” that would have transferred the city’s water treatment plant to its primary backup power source failed ...

two documents have emerged that appear to indicate infrastructure problems at the water treatment plant were well-known. Operations at the James River plant broke down on Monday, cutting off city ...

Minnesota’s 31-year-old ban on new nuclear power plants is facing another challenge from utility companies and supporters of nuclear power, who say the technology is necessary to meet the state’s ...

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed for a second time the operating licence of the boiling water reactor (BWR) at unit 1 of the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant in Minnesota for an ...

At the Monticello plant a gasket needs repair and emergency ... but say follow-up inspections are planned. Water leaks containing radioactive tritium and other chemicals from the Prairie Island ...

At least 29 tons of liquid radioactive waste from a storage tank at the Wolseong No. 2 nuclear power plant, located in the southeastern North Gyeongsang province, were released into the ocean ...

The dramatic fire at the Vistra battery storage plant caused the evacuation of 1,200 people in Northern Monterey County, closed Highway 1 and sent large clouds of toxic black smoke billowing from one ...

Since founding TerraPower in 2008, Bill Gates has had his eye on developing a safe, efficient, and clean next-gen nuclear plant. That project, called Natrium, has already broken ground in Wyoming ...

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Though it doesn't pollute in the same way as fossil fuels, nuclear energy comes with its own set of environmental problems: among them, indirect emissions from uranium mines, contaminated water ...