6 leaking tanks are Hanford nuke site's latest woe

YAKIMA, Wash. | Federal and state officials say six underground tanks holding a brew of radioactive and toxic waste are leaking at the country's most contaminated nuclear site in south-central Washington, raising concerns about delays for emptying the aging tanks.

Gregg wants cheap energy to lure manufacturing jobs

INDIANAPOLIS | Democrat John Gregg promised Wednesday to promote more effective use of Indiana's abundant, low-cost energy resources to create jobs if he's elected governor.

Pence endorses nuclear power for Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS | Republican Mike Pence announced an "all of the above" state energy policy Tuesday, promising to fight federal regulations on Indiana's coal-fired power plants and embracing the possibility of nuclear power if he's elected governor.

NRC and industry rewrite nuclear history

ROCKVILLE, Md. | When commercial nuclear power was getting its start in the 1960s and 1970s, the industry and regulators stated unequivocally that reactors were designed only to operate for 40 years. Now they tell another story -- insisting that the units were built with no inherent life spa…

Valpo prepared for most threats to water system

VALPARAISO | The world's water supply is under attack from many directions, some of which we can control, but many we can't, such as radioactivity from Japan.

Indiana fears future of nearby nukes

There are no nuclear power plants in Northwest Indiana or Chicago's south suburbs, but legislation in Indiana could impact a Michigan reactor on the Lake Michigan shoreline.

Japan's nuclear disaster evokes memories of Lake Michigan fight

CHESTERTON | When Herb and Charlotte Read heard about the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, their minds flashed back more than 30 years to their fight against a reactor near the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

"Should the United States push for more nuclear power plants?"

Region residents speak out on nuclear energy.

Illinois nuke plants under review

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. | A review of the state's fleet of nuclear power plants is under way.

GUEST COMMENTARY: U.S. must examine safety of nuclear plants here

The triple catastrophe in northern Japan involved an earthquake of 9 on the Richter scale (among the strongest in more than a century), many strong aftershocks, a very intense tsunami and serious damages to nuclear energy facilities with potentially devastating radiation releases. Obviously,…

Disaster in Japan

View an interactive featuring a Twitter feed; before-and-after satellite imagery of the damage; animations detailing the damage to nuclear plants; a video gallery of earthquake and tsunami victims; a map of the epicenter of the quake, a new photo gallery and a timeline of the nuclear crisi.