nuclear energy

Private firm set to restart abandoned $9B SC nuclear project

November 1, 2025 Jeffrey Collins

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s state-owned utility is looking to a private company to revive a project to build two nuclear power plants that was abandoned eight years ago, losing more than $9 billion without […]

Duke Energy joins industry group vying for DOE grant

January 24, 2025 Dan Reeves

CHARLOTTE — Duke Energy announced last week its participation in a multijoint public-private application for the Department of Energy’s U.S. Gen III+ small modular reactor technology grant. If awarded by the DOE, the grant, which […]

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Bid to keep California reactors running faces time squeeze

February 18, 2023 Michael R. Blood, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — A late-hour attempt to extend the life of California’s last nuclear power plant has run into a predicament that will be difficult to resolve: a shortage of time. A state analysis Monday […]

11 years later, fate of Fukushima reactor cleanup uncertain

March 15, 2022 Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press

OKUMA, Japan — Eleven years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was ravaged by a meltdown following a massive earthquake and tsunami, the plant now looks like a sprawling construction site. Most of the […]

Powerful US nuclear test reactor getting rare major overhaul

May 30, 2021 Keith Ridler, Associated Press

BOISE, Idaho — Scientists in Idaho this summer plan to remove the 62,000-pound stainless steel lid on one of the world’s most powerful nuclear test reactors for a rare internal overhaul. The Advanced Test Reactor […]

Iran says it will enrich uranium to 60%, highest level ever

April 13, 2021 Jon Gambrell, Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran will begin enriching uranium up to 60% purity after an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility, a negotiator said Tuesday, pushing its program to higher levels than ever before […]