Topic: Nuclear Energy

Financial institutions have entered a final stage of negotiations for loaning an additional 1 trillion yen ($12.97 billion) to embattled Tokyo...

Road map released for Fukushima decontamination

The Environment Ministry released a road map on Jan. 26 for decontaminating areas around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, hoping to provide...
Economy minister Yukio Edano's comments about the possibility of no nuclear energy this summer have stunned many in the business world, with some...

Edano not banking on nuclear energy this summer

Economy minister Yukio Edano said he does not expect any nuclear power plant to be operating this summer, but thermal power and conservation...
New submitter Required Snark writes "UC Davis researchers have found a mechanism where the sodium in sea water can cause uranium nano-particles to...
The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant once again is refusing the state's request that it conduct more tests for radioactive tritium in a former drinking...
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees approved the next phase of the Facility of Rare Isotope Beams, despite some uncertainty in recent...
Harperdog writes "Dawn Stover recounts her attempts to access information at energy.gov, the U.S. Energy Department's 'cutting-edge, interactive...

LITHOSPHERE Highlights: February 2012

he new issue of LITHOSPHERE is online now. Papers present evidence for the on-going re-shaping of the Rocky-Mountain-Colorado Plateau region by...
Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 -- and that was probably...