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VIENNA — Iran has slowed the pace at which it is enriching uranium to nearly weapons-grade levels, according to a report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog seen by The

Here’s a swell idea. We’ll bury a bunch of nuclear bombs on the Alaska North Slope right near the Chukchi Sea, detonate them, and create an artificial harbor. Not really

Just as all Americans remember 9/11, Japanese remember 3/11, the day in 2011 that an earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, destroying a town, poisoning a

Last Thursday, an engineer from Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) activated a pump to begin the eventual releasing of 1,340,000 cubic meters of water sealed in the Fukushima plant grounds.

OKUMA, Japan — At a small section of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s central control room, the treated water transfer switch is on. A graph on a computer monitor nearby

JANESVILLE — In a windswept industrial park on Janesville’s south side, the future of fusion energy is rolling out in ways that seemed unlikely even a decade ago. However, the

JANESVILLE — In a windswept industrial park on Janesville’s south side, the future of fusion energy is rolling out in ways that seemed unlikely even a decade ago. However, the

Seven years after voting to sell its Bellefonte nuclear plant site, the Tennessee Valley Authority has reversed itself and decided to keep the Jackson County, Alabama, power plant for another

This is a letter to the editor that appears on the JG-TC Opinion page.

Oregon is a no-nuclear-reactor state. There are some test reactors at Oregon State University and Reed College. The Trojan plant in Columbia County began operation in 1976 and was shut