Cost pressure intensifies for Southern Co. nuclear plant
By RAY HENRY The delays and cost overruns are piling up for a new plant in Georgia that was supposed to prove nuclear energy can be built affordably. Instead, the…
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Reid pulls spending bill after spat with GOP
By ANDREW TAYLOR FILE – This June 10, 2014 file photo shows Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate’s top Democrat has…
Nuclear industry explores accident-resistant fuel
By RAY HENRY FILE – In this March 21, 2011 file photo provided by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), smoke rises from the Unit 3 reactor of the tsunami-damaged Fukushima…
OREGON OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY FARM PROJECT ANNOUNCED
By GOSIA WOZNIACKA FILE – This Oct. 30, 2002 file photo shows a speed boat passing by offshore windmills in the North Sea offshore from near Esbjerg, Denmark. On Wednesday…
UK NUCLEAR STATION REPORTS ELEVATED RADIATION
FILE – This is a Wednesday May 23, 2007 file photo of the Sellafield Nuclear Power Station in Sellafield, England. Sellafield said in a statement Friday Jan. 31, 2014 it…
TO CLEAN UP COAL, OBAMA PUSHES MORE OIL PRODUCTION
By DINA CAPPIELLO In this Oct. 21, 2013, photo, construction continues at the Mississippi Power’s Kemper County energy facility in central Mississippi near DeKalb, Miss. The power plant is designed…
NEW SHIP’S CAPT. KIRK IS — USED TO ‘STAR TREK’ JOKES
By DAVID SHARPFILE – In a Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 file photo, the Navy’s stealthy Zumwalt destroyer is moored at Bath Iron Works, in Bath, Maine. The skipper of the…
A look at Iran nuclear sites from mine to reactor
By The Associated Press In this photo released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader’s office on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers…