Iran's enrichment to higher concentrations is currently neither a serious bid to manufacture fuel for its research reactor, nor a breakthrough toward a nuclear weapon. It is an effort to gain political leverage.
A new conservative German government has thrown the country's nuclear power phaseout into doubt. But it's unclear just how long a reprieve its reactors will be given.
Although the economic crisis has diminished chances of a widespread nuclear renaissance, concerns remain that countries interested in nuclear energy could push wary neighbors toward nuclear weapons.
An in-depth look at Iran's recently exposed secret fuel enrichment plant raises questions over intent and whether similar facilities will be discovered in the future.
On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear weapon at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on the Kazakh steppe. Today, six decades later, the health impacts are still being felt.
The Energy Department has selected the final four nuclear power plant projects that will vie for $18.5 billion in federal loan guarantees. So, now how does it spend the money wisely and efficiently?
New Delhi's aggressive push for a large fleet of fast breeder reactors comes at the expense of a design that can protect against severe accidents.
What will are suspicions by nuclear have-nots that the major powers are controlling the atom for themselves.
With South Africa's pebble bed modular reactor teetering on the edge of oblivion, what does the future hold for this once-celebrated reactor design?
Former Eastern Bloc states that joined the EU were forced to close their Soviet-era nuclear plants. Ironically the move has pushed them back into Moscow's orbit.
After a failed March vote, predicting who will be the IAEA's next director-general is murkier than ever.
While industry has improved nuclear power plant safety and security since TMI, it needs to do more to prevent future reactor accidents.
Never a skilled communicator, the nuclear energy industry should scrap its past strategies to earn the public's trust and try something new--genuine, proactive engagement.
Infused with oil and natural gas profits and tasked with a robust civil nuclear energy agenda, Russia's once-beleaguered closed cities are being transformed.
Much to Tokyo's dismay, in the last few years, IAEA inspectors all-too-often have discovered components from Japanese companies at nuclear facilities in Libya and North Korea.
The most expensive cleanup in IAEA history is underway in Serbia. Yet, funding is still required to remove poorly stored spent fuel and a mothballed research reactor.
Without domestic uranium reserves, India is struggling to fuel its nuclear industry. The controversial U.S.-India deal could solve the problem, but nuclear might not deliver anyway.
Although its populace has a severe, Chernobyl-induced nuclear allergy, the Belarusian government views nuclear power as the key to ending its energy woes.