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Hundreds of coal power plant sites across the USA could be converted to nuclear plant sites, providing huge decarbonisation gains as well as bringing tangible economic, employment and environmental benefits to the communities where those plants are located.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Ukrainian engineers had restored external power to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, a day after it lost connection to the last operating power line, which had forced the use of emergency diesel generators.

Treatment and conditioning processes are used to convert radioactive waste materials into a form that is suitable for its subsequent management.

Earthquakes and Seismic Protection for Japanese Nuclear Power Plants: Nuclear facilities are designed so that earthquakes and other external events will not jeopardise the safety of the plant. In France for instance, nuclear plants are designed to withstand an earthquake twic...

Lithuania closed its last nuclear reactor, which had been generating 70% of its electricity, at the end of 2009. Electricity was a major export until the closure of Lithuania's nuclear plant.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, held talks in Turkey with Ukraine's foreign minister and Russia's foreign minister.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week concluded a mission to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine and the surrounding Exclusion Zone

​Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree to transfer Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to Russian control and oversight on Wednesday. But Ukraine calls it an illegal attempt to take control of the plant and says the Russian president’s decree is "null and vo...

Nuclear power capacity worldwide is increasing steadily. Most reactors under construction are in the Asian region. Significant further capacity is being created by plant uprating.

Nuclear power plants are designed to withstand earthquakes, and in the event of major earth movement, to shut down safely.