Nuclear Power

Radiation-emitting drugs, or radiopharmaceuticals, are increasingly used to target and kill cancer cells with positive results for patients. In July, during an appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “The Morning Show,” […]

A University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Wausau will be the first nuclear engineer to compete in the Miss America contest Dec. 15. Grace Stanke, who was crowned Miss Wisconsin in […]

A new facility in Beloit will help Wisconsin increase domestic supply of a critical isotope for the health care industry. NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes recently finished construction and equipment installation at […]

Wisconsin earned a grade of C on the 2020 Report Card for Wisconsin Infrastructure, scoring highest in energy and waste. Poor scores in transit and roads pulled down its grade-point […]

Setting aside the ambitious Green New Deal and its goal of achieving 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, Congressional Democrats are sectioning off portions of that resolution to deliver more […]

Wisconsin’s energy production is in line with national trends that show declining use of fossil fuel plants, in particular coal-fired plants. A recent report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration […]

A Florida-based company is planning to build Wisconsin’s largest solar project in Two Rivers. Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources will build and operate the 100-megawatt Point Beach Solar Energy Center neighboring […]

Five years after an earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima power plant in Japan causing the world’s most recent nuclear disaster, officials with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission continue to […]

A federal agency has approved a transfer of the license for the former nuclear power plant near La Crosse. The license is going from Dairyland Power Cooperative to a radioactive […]

The state Assembly could soon pass a bill to repeal Wisconsin’s moratorium on new nuclear power plants, but the plan’s future is murky in the state Senate. Assembly Speaker Robin […]