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A key oversight board is set to vote Tuesday on a proposed regulation that would have Pennsylvania join a regional cap-and-trade program.Under the…
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The partial meltdown of one of Three Mile Island’s nuclear reactors 40 years ago this month left areas of the facility highly radioactive and inaccessible…
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The nation's biggest electric grid operator said a Trump administration plan to change the way electricity is priced to reward coal and nuclear power is…
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Exelon has announced it will prematurely close the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in September 2019—15 years before its license expires.The plant’s…
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Japan's embattled Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday that its U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse Electric Co. has filed for bankruptcy protection, marking a key…
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Diablo Canyon's reactors are close to earthquake fault lines. Public concerns are split between the dangers of quake damage and of carbon dioxide gas released by the burning of fossil fuels.
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First Energy’s Unit 1 nuclear reactor in Shippingport was shut down Saturday for routine maintenance.Unit 2 will remain online during this time. Every…
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The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded nearly $1 million to University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering to improve nuclear power plant…