Cameco tries to contain contaminated water under Port Hope plants

Uranium giant Cameco is asking for permission to take more than 1.5 million liters of water daily out of the ground under its plants in Port Hope, Ontario. The Permit is a key component of Cameco’s effort to...

Smart Energy Grid

Conventional power lines are expensive, ugly and wasteful, they can lose 14 percent of their energy from the resistance of the copper cables. A major aspect of the "smart energy grid" is a new set of long-distance...

Iran: Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant Pre-Launched

Head of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency and the head of Iranian Atomic Energy Agency pre-launched the first ever Iranian nuclear facility in Bushehr (southern Iran and close to the Persian Gulf). The...

China quake: burst dams, damaged nuclear power plants, rising death toll

In the aftermath of a massive earthquake that hit south-western China, troops have been rushed to aid rescue efforts in the affected regions.Although the Three Gorges Dam and the South-to-North water diversion...