North Korea is capable of detonating another nuclear device at any time at the country’s main test site, South Korea has said, three days after Pyongyang carried out its fifth atomic bomb explosion.
Iran has begun building its second nuclear power plant with Russian help, the first such project since last year’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers.
Iran has begun building its second nuclear power plant with Russian help, the first such project since last year’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers.
A European monitoring agency has reported a 5.0 magnitude quake near North Korea’s north-eastern nuclear test site.
Sellafield nuclear site is not a danger to the public, the Government has insisted after a whistleblower warned of a string of safety concerns.
Theresa May has defended the delay on whether to give the go-ahead to Hinkley Point despite the diplomatic difficulties it will cause during her visit to China.
French President Francois Hollande’s government is concerned that discussions on the sidelines of the Group of 20 talks in China will sound the death knell for the Hinkley Point nuclear power project in the U.K., according to people involved in the talks.
Roads around Wick Airport will be regularly shut over the next 18 months so nuclear waste can be flown to the United States.
The long-running saga over a planned new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point has taken a fresh twist after French union officials started legal action against a decision by energy giant EDF to go ahead with the project.
The UK can meet its energy and climate change targets without building the controversial new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, a new report has found.
Britain could scrap the 18 billion-pound ($23 billion) nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point and get the same amount of electricity from offshore wind turbines for roughly the same investment.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has written to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang to express her desire to enhance trade and strategic ties, her nation’s new Asia envoy said.
A Chinese energy company set to invest in the UK's Hinkley Point Nuclear power station is allegedly facing charges of nuclear espionage in the US, according to reports.
Theresa May must make a decision on whether to approve the Hinkley Point nuclear power project before the end of next month or risk jeopardising increasingly important economic ties with China, Lord Mandelson has said.
The British government’s surprise decision last week to review the $24 billion Hinkley Point nuclear plant would leave a huge hole in the U.K.’s energy policy if it leads to the project’s cancellation.
A candidate in the Labour Party leadership bid has claimed the UK could face power outages in the future if the Hinkley Point project is not approved.
Energy sector monitoring specialists EnAppSys say that the delay in the Government’s decision on Hinkley Point C is the latest example of how changes and uncertainty in policy direction are continuing to have a serious and unprecedented impact on important energy sector investment decisions.
Amec Foster Wheeler has won a continuation of a contract to provide environmental support to NuGeneration Limited for a proposed nuclear power station in Cumbria.
The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) said the UK Government needs to make a quick decision on Hinkley Point after it was deferred by the UK Government until Autumn.
A board member of EDF has resigned just before a meeting of the French energy giant which is expected to give the go-ahead to build a new nuclear power station at Hinkley.
Just over a third of people support nuclear power, while more than a fifth oppose the energy technology, an official survey shows.
French energy giant EDF is set to make a final decision to go ahead with the first new nuclear power station in a generation in the UK, at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
The Government should negotiate a price for electricity at a planned new nuclear power station in Wales below that agreed for the delayed site at Hinkley Point, according to a committee of MPs.
Energy giant EDF will make its long-awaited final investment decision on the planned nuclear power station at Hinkley Point next week.
The prime minister said she would be prepared to authorise a nuclear strike as she warned that Jeremy Corbyn’s opposition to maintaining the UK’s deterrent is “quite wrong”.