The nuclear industry still has its secrets

One of the nuclear industry’s promises for the future is that it will turn its back on its cold war past and be more open and transparent about its dealings.

Nuclear Industry Gains Carbon-Focused Allies in Push to Save Reactors

Environmentalists and the nuclear industry are beginning a push to preserve old nuclear reactors whose economic viability is threatened by cheap natural gas and rising production of wind energy.

Sellafield fined £700,000 for sending radioactive waste to landfill

The nuclear company Sellafield Ltd has been fined £700,000 and ordered to pay more than £72,000 costs for sending bags of radioactive waste to a landfill site.

Renewable energy providers to help bear cost of new UK nuclear reactors

The row over subsidies for the UK's new nuclear power stations has deepened after it emerged that the £160m-a-year cost of accommodating the giant reactors on the national electricity grid will be borne by all generators, including renewable energy providers.

New nuclear reactors could be eligible for subsidies, says minister

The nuclear industry could get subsidies from the taxpayer to build new reactors, the new energy minister has said, despite opposition in the coalition agreement and repeated assurances to the contrary.