Utility officials have lost four pounds of radioactive nuclear fuel at a mothballed nuclear power plant, but federal regulators insisted the search must continue. “You have to exhaust all avenues to find it, and we expect you to continue searching for it,”

Research shows more than 14,000 homes in the North East could be powered by electricity generated from waste wood. The Environmental Industries Federation (EIF) says the region could have as much as 750,000 tonnes of waste wood available for use as fuel.