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Water containing a radioactive material has leaked for a second time from a nuclear plant near Minneapolis and the plant will be shut down, but there is no danger to the public.

The company said it notified the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the state on Nov. 22, the day after it confirmed the leak, which came from a pipe between two buildings.

A nuclear power plant in Georgia has begun splitting atoms in one of its two new reactors, Georgia Power said Monday, a key step toward reaching commercial operation at the first new nuclear reactors built from scratch in decades in the United States.

nergy Department put the gas stove debate on the front burner again Wednesday by proposing new efficiency standards for consumer cooking appliances.

Blame it on the pandemic and “supply chain problems,” says the school district’s assistant superintendent of finance.

NBC Bay Area investigator Chris Chmura shares several ways to cut down on your energy bill costs plus which changes make the greatest impact.

The significant advance in technology has been decades in the making.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm discusses the breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where for the first time a fusion energy reaction was created in a laboratory.

It’s cold outside, which means your energy bills will start heating up. Here are five easy tricks to cool off your utility bills this winter.

San Jose State lecturer Ahmed Banafa discusses the reasons behind heat-related power failures and imposed rolling blackouts.

President Joe Biden urged lawmakers Thursday to pass the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a bill which would offer inflation relief and invest in energy security and climate change programs.

The government of Boulder City, Nevada, posted on its Twitter account that the fire was extinguished before the fire department arrived.

Around the world, drivers are looking at the numbers on the gas pump and rethinking their habits and finances.

Biden warned refiners the administration is ready to “use all reasonable and appropriate Federal Government tools and emergency authorities to increase refinery capacity and output in the near term”

The Interior Department announced the decision Wednesday night, citing a lack of industry interest in drilling off the Alaska coast and “conflicting court rulings” that have complicated drilling efforts in the Gulf of Mexico.

Ukraine’s top prosecutor says the country plans to hold its first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier. Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said Wednesday that her office charged 21-year-old Sgt. Vadin Shyshimarin in the Feb. 28 killing of an unarmed 62-year-old civilian in northeastern Ukraine. She didn’t say when the trial will start, but her office has said it...

European countries that are dependent on Russian imports are looking to get greater access to the global natural gas market through a new pipeline that crosses a remote border area of Greece and Bulgaria. The pipeline is nearing completion, and it would ensure that large volumes of gas flows between the two countries in both directions. The project is seen...

A wind energy company has been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed over the past decade at its wind farms across the U.S.

The White House on Thursday announced that the U.S. will release 1 million barrels of oil per day from strategic reserves.

The meeting comes more than a month after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.