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The decision to halt construction of a Mississauga power plant and then relocate it will likely cost Ontario taxpayers $275 million when all is said and done, the province's auditor general said Monday. More...

Health Canada is working at fast-tracking new sources of certain medications following reports that shortages due to a production scaleback at Sandoz Canada's Quebec plant have led to cancellation of some elective surgeries, an Ottawa spokesman says. More...

The revelation that a major drugmaker is cutting production at its Quebec plant has ramped up fears among doctors and patients about a critical shortage of injectable medicines nationwide. More...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A nuclear power plant in Covert, Michigan, has been cited for three safety violations, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, joining two other U.S. nuclear plants in getting extra scrutiny from inspectors. The worst of the violations stems from a September 25...

The company that owns the locked-out Electro-Motive plant in London, Ont., has decided to close the plant permanently. More...

AP - Federal regulators say a tiny amount of radiation could have escaped into the atmosphere from a Southern California nuclear power plant after a water leak prompted operators to shut down the reactor. More...

AP - Japan's government said Wednesday that it could take 40 years to clean up and fully decommission a nuclear plant that went into meltdown after it was struck by a huge tsunami. More...

AP - Japan's government Friday allocated $11.5 billion of public money to help a utility decontaminate its tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant and dismantle the reactors. More...

Something has gone terribly wrong on the plant floor at ACME Specialty Chemical International Inc. More...

Two Nebraska nuclear power plants have planned properly to protect themselves from the swollen Missouri River and keep the public safe, the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said on Monday. Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko told reporters he had complete confidence in the efforts...

(CNN) -- A water-filled berm protecting a nuclear power plant in Nebraska from rising floodwaters collapsed Sunday, according to a spokesman, who said the plant remains secure. Some sort of machinery came in contact with the berm, puncturing it and causing the berm to deflate, said Mike Jones...

(CNN) -- U.S. nuclear regulators say two Nebraska nuclear power plants have protected critical equipment from the rising waters of the Missouri River even though flooding has reached the grounds of one of them. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is confident those safeguards will prevent a...

Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan released new details Tuesday of the battle to contain the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, after disclosing that the crippled power plant spewed more than twice as much radioactivity as originally estimated. The release was already bad enough to make Fukushima Daiichi...

Representatives from a Japanese soup company are on P.E.I. looking into the possibility of setting up a fish processing plant. Kisco Foods has been buying frozen lobster bodies from Canada for 10 years and importing them to Japan to make broth. "People don't use the body or the head. This is...

(CNN) -- An explosion at a North Carolina chemical plant Saturday ignited a fire and forced the evacuation of some 750 people, an official said. The local fire department received a call about an explosion at Chemical Coatings Inc. around 3 p.m. ET, said Denise Michaud, Caldwell County...

General Motors Co plans to invest $69 million and add about 2,500 jobs at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to build the next-generation Chevrolet Impala large sedan and other cars, the company said. The plant will also build the new Chevrolet Malibu mid-size sedan alongside the Chevrolet...

EHRAN, Iran – An Iranian spokesman says the country has received a new shipment of nuclear fuel from Russia for its only nuclear power plant. Hamid Khadem Qaemi, from Iran's nuclear agency, says Russia delivered a total of 33 tons (30 metric tons) by plane over the last week for the...

MADRID – Media say 14 people were working in the containment area of a nuclear power plant in northeast Spain this week when water used to cool a reactor was unexpectedly released. El Pais newspaper reported Saturday that the workers were in the building, although none are believed to have...

FUTABA, Japan – Residents rushed back into the 12-mile (20-kilometer) evacuation zone around Japan's radiation-spewing nuclear power plant Thursday, grabbing whatever belongings they could before an order went into effect legally banning entry to the area. A stream of evacuees ventured into...

TOKYO – A pair of thin robots on treads sent to explore buildings inside Japan's crippled nuclear reactor came back Monday with disheartening news: Radiation levels are far too high for repair crews to go inside. Nevertheless, officials remained hopeful they can stick to their freshly minted...