SCE&G and Santee Cooper officials say the utility is allowing Chinese researchers to study a nuclear reactor north of Columbia.

Thousands of people in some of South Carolina’s most depressed counties are flocking to information sessions for new jobs cleaning up an old nuclear weapons complex. Some of the 2,000 people at a job fair in Barnwell this week say they don’t mind that the job is cleaning up nuclear waste at the Savannah River Site.

An AP analysis of U.S. Department of Energy records shows three states with their own radioactive waste dump have shipped millions of cubic feet of waste this decade to a private facility in Utah that’s the only one available to 36 other states.

The Department of Energy says the site of a former nuclear weapons complex in South Carolina will receive more than $1.6 billion in federal stimulus funds.

A report obtained by The Associated Press says the U.S. can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or biological weapons in the next five years.

Iran’s official news agency says Tehran has proposed building joint light-water nuclear power plants with neighboring Arab countries.

Duke Energy Co. says it has banned a worker from the Oconee Nuclear Station after an investigation showed the contract employee brought marijuana into
the facility.

SCE&G and the state-owned utility, Santee Cooper, want to build two nuclear reactors in Fairfield County north of Columbia, where they operate one reactor now.

The company that manages and operates the Savannah River Site has agreed to pay the federal government $2.4 million to settle fraud allegations.

Some military leaders think the mighty U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons is declining in power and purpose.

The United States says North Korea has stepped up disablement of a nuclear reactor it had been threatening to reactivate.

The South Carolina agency that inspects public utilities has given the go-ahead for two new nuclear reactors in Fairfield County.

North Korea says it will resume dismantling its Yongbyon nuclear complex and allow U.S. and IAEA inspections to verify the process.

A U.S. official has told The Associated Press that North Korea has agreed to all U.S. nuclear inspection demands.

Former EPA chief says nuclear power won’t solve the nation’s energy crisis.