Among the most demanding and potentially hazardous aspects of decommissioning liquid metal cooled reactors is dealing with the coolant.

Over the past 60 years, the size of nuclear reactor units has grown from 60 MW to more than 1600 MW, and this bigger-is-better mindset shows no sign of abating in those countries that continue to embrace nuclear post-Fukushima.

Hitachi's purchase of Horizon Nuclear Power in October 2012 is the latest milestone in a new wave of nuclear development in Europe.

US company Westinghouse Electric Company and China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Corp (SNPTC) are to work together on developing a new small modular reactor design.

At least one nuclear power plant is on the verge of being shutdown by the country’s new atomic regulator.

High capital costs and maintaining public confidence are the greatest challenges facing the European nuclear power industry, according to a new survey.

The Russian state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom is attempting to win business in developing countries by offering a comprehensive service they are calling, "Build, Own, Operate" (BOO).

The chief executive of EDF Energy is set to leave the UK if his company’s deal to build the country’s $22bn nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point falls through.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has shipped 16 turbine rotors, consisting of 12 low-pressure and four high-pressure units, to nuclear power plants in China – the first in the world to adopt the AP1000 reactor design.

The initial design of the ACP1000, China's domestically-developed advanced pressurized water nuclear reactor, has passed an industry evaluation confirms China National Nuclear Corporation.

The United Arab Emirates energy minister Suhauk Al Mazrouej says his country is targeting 25 per cent of its energy to come through nuclear power by 2021.

The chief executive of EDF is not ruling out the possibility of failure in the company’s ongoing negotiations with the British government to build the country’s first nuclear power plant in two decades.

French nuclear company Areva is to supply fuel elements for a research reactor in Jordan.

Two years on from the tsunami that caused explosions at the plant, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has recorded two troubling incidents within the past week.

Westinghouse Electric has announced that its subsidiary, PCI Energy Services, has signed a contract with Nucleoeléctrica Argentina to provide engineering, specialty pipe cutting and welding services in support of the replacement steam generator program at Argentina’s Embalse Nuclear Power Plant.

A 29-hour power outage at the Fukushima plant in Japan last week has been found to be caused by an electrocuted rat, say Tepco, the plant’s owners.

The British government has had to revise its initial target of having 16 GW of nuclear reactors in place by 2025.

The UK government has today published a business blueprint to enable it to “become a top table nuclear nation”.

A power cut has left the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant without a fresh supply of cooling water to three of its seven fuel pools.