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CNNMoney: The threat of nuclear meltdown

At a nuclear power plant in Texas, two men dressed in combat gear are perched atop a steel-framed watchtower armed with assault rifles, firing on both moving and stationary targets some 300 yards away.

CNNMoney: Private college presidents: 23 earn $1 million

The presidents of the nation's top private universities got 6.5% more in pay last year, with 23 taking home more than $1 million, according to a study published Monday.

Aerial images online endanger national security, critics say

One is a assemblyman in California; the other a piano tuner in Pennsylvania.

New nuke plants will likely be protected from jetliner attacks

Nuclear power plants will likely add fortifications to future atomic power stations despite the cost involved, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Wednesday.

New nuclear plants to protect against jet strikes

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted Tuesday to require any future nuclear power plants to be designed to withstand strikes from commercial jetliners, addressing a possible terrorist scenario that has haunted some people since the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Fortune: The high cost of going nuclear

If the companies that supply nuclear power plants are ready for a revival, the utilities that will operate the plants are champing at the bit.

Time.com: Worker Covered up Damage at OH Nuke Plant

Jurors on Tuesday convicted a former nuclear plant engineer of hiding information from government regulators about the worst corrosion ever found at a U.S. reactor

Expert: L.A.'s 5.4 quake 'small sample' of one to come

A magnitude-5.4 earthquake shook the Los Angeles metropolitan area Tuesday, leaving residents rattled but causing no serious damage or injuries.

Report raises terrorism concerns for nuclear research reactors

The federal agency charged with safeguarding nuclear reactors has underestimated the potential for terrorists to attack small research reactors on college campuses as well as the potential impact of such attacks, congressional investigators said in a report released Tuesday.

Time.com: Drought Endangering Nuclear Power

Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply them

CNNMoney: The threat of nuclear meltdown

CNNMoney: Private college presidents: 23 earn $1 million

The presidents of the nation's top private universities got 6.5% more in pay last year, with 23 taking home more than $1 million, according to a study published Monday.

Aerial images online endanger national security, critics say

One is a assemblyman in California; the other a piano tuner in Pennsylvania.

New nuke plants will likely be protected from jetliner attacks

Nuclear power plants will likely add fortifications to future atomic power stations despite the cost involved, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Wednesday.

New nuclear plants to protect against jet strikes

Fortune: The high cost of going nuclear

If the companies that supply nuclear power plants are ready for a revival, the utilities that will operate the plants are champing at the bit.

Time.com: Worker Covered up Damage at OH Nuke Plant

Jurors on Tuesday convicted a former nuclear plant engineer of hiding information from government regulators about the worst corrosion ever found at a U.S. reactor

Expert: L.A.'s 5.4 quake 'small sample' of one to come

A magnitude-5.4 earthquake shook the Los Angeles metropolitan area Tuesday, leaving residents rattled but causing no serious damage or injuries.

Report raises terrorism concerns for nuclear research reactors

Time.com: Drought Endangering Nuclear Power

Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply them

Nuclear plant employee stopped with explosive device

A contract employee at the largest nuclear plant in the nation was stopped at a plant entrance Friday with a "relatively small" explosive device in his truck, officials said.

Sources: Staged cyber attack reveals vulnerability in power grid

Researchers who launched an experimental cyber attack caused a generator to self-destruct, alarming the federal government and electrical industry about what might happen if such an attack were carried out on a larger scale, CNN has learned.

Fortune: Inside NRG's new nuke thinking

Is the United States finally about to embark on a long anticipated nuclear power renaissance? It seemed so yesterday, when Princeton-based NRG Energy filed a license application to build two new nuclear reactors at its existing facility in Bay City, Texas.

CNNMoney: NRG to seek license for nuclear reactor

Power producer NRG Energy Inc. is expected on Tuesday to submit the first application for a new nuclear reactor in the United States in nearly 30 years.

Agency: Nuclear plants secure enough if attacked by air

Nuclear power plants will not be required to put up defenses against terrorist attacks from the air, according to a rule enacted Monday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Government investigators smuggled radioactive materials into U.S.

Two teams of government investigators using fake documents were able to enter the United States with enough radioactive sources to make two dirty bombs, according to a federal report made available Monday.

Nuke agency takes Web site offline

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission removed its massive public reading room from the Internet Monday after nuclear safety activists and media organizations found several documents on it containing sensitive information they said could help terrorists.

GAO: Regulators missed nuke corrosion

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission failed to identify and prevent corrosion at an Ohio nuclear plant more than two years ago, an oversight that was the most serious safety incident since the 1979 Three Mile Island disaster, according to a report released Tuesday by the investigative arm of Congress.

Fortune: DOWN-TO-EARTH GUY

Now that William Anders has been picked as the next CEO of General Dynamics, the rank-and-file at the St. Louis defense contractor might be wondering what he was like as an astronaut. Was this form...

Fortune: Toxic gas leak

A cloud of highly toxic and mildly radioactive gas escaped from a Kerr-McGee uranium processing plant in Gore, Oklahoma, killing one worker and hospitalizing 34 people. The poisonous hydrogen fluor...

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