The Latest Breaking News from Nuclear Power

International Atomic Energy Agency also calls for end to shelling

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) called on Tuesday for fighting to be halted in a security zone around Europe's biggest nuclear power station, saying its experts had found extensive damage at the plant on the front in the Ukraine war. A long-awaited report did not ascribe blame for damage…

Russia's defence ministry on Tuesday said Ukraine had fired 20 artillery shells on the town of Enerhodar and the area around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant over the last 24 hours.

Fears are growing for Europe’s largest nuclear power plant as shelling around it continues

Russia has announced launching the production of the reactor pressure vessel for the first unit at Egypt’s El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). Russia’s state-owned Rosatom is currently implementing Egypt’s first nuclear power plant project near the town of El-Dabaa. The plant consists of four third-generation reactors with a total capacity…

Drax in eye of storm as options considered including windfall tax to bring down household bills

Ukrainian forces shot down five Russian cruise missiles on Tuesday, most of them in the south, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, but he made no mention of a new military success in the east hinted at by officials earlier.

Last two working plants were due to be mothballed, but will be used as emergency reserve into 2023 after Russia cuts off gas

A nationwide poll by The Yomiuri Shimbun conducted Friday through Sunday found that the approval rating for the Kishida Cabinet stood at 50%, nearly unchanged from 51% in a previous poll conducted on Aug. 10-11.

LIZ Truss’s proposals to pursue more nuclear power and allow fracking are “negligently wrong-headed and dangerously short-sighted”,…

Zaporizhzhia accounts for nearly half of the total electricity generated by Ukraine’s four nuclear power plants.