CHICAGO, May 7 (UPI) -- With crude oil prices approaching $123 a barrel, U.S. officials are cautiously re-examining nuclear power as an alternative energy source, officials said.

ATHERTON, Calif., April 19 (UPI) -- Nuclear energy pioneer and risk analysis expert Chaucey Starr has died in his Atherton, Calif., home. He was 95.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 5-0 that nuclear power plants do not require additional protection from commandeered passenger planes. The vote was in response to a 2004 petition from a Los Angeles non-profit group, the Committee to Bridge th

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- The new head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the NRC should be able to review license applications for new plants in less than 42 months.

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LAS VEGAS, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- A Pentagon adviser predicted the United States would resume testing of nuclear weapons in the coming years to confirm the aging warheads still perform as designed, it was reported Thursday. Dale Klein, an assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- A Defense Department official said the United States would have to resume full-scale testing of nuclear weapons sometime in the next five to 10 years to confirm their reliability, according to Thursday's Las Vegas Review-Journal. Pentagon adviser Dale Kle

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