Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff will be available to answer questions on the commission’s performance assessment of McGuire Nuclear Station, near Huntersville, North Carolina, at an open house, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday at the McGuire Energy Explorium, 13339 Hagers Ferry Road, in Huntersville. Read More »

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff will be available to discuss the performance of Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun Station nuclear plant at an open house 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at the Doubletree Hotel, 1616 Dodge St., in Omaha. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently released the results of its 2015 performance assessments of the nation's 99 commercial nuclear reactors currently in operation at 61 plants, only three of which were not in the top two performance categories. Read More »

U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and John Barrasso (R-WY) recently wrote a letter to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, asking him to investigate the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) use of requests for additional information (RAIs) when reviewing reactor-license applications, a practice that the senators allege the agency might be employing too often. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week that it will hold a public meeting to discuss the agency’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) program and its ongoing efforts to keep the public informed, 1-3 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, at the NRC's Two White Flint North Auditorium, 11545 Rockville Pike, in Rockville, Maryland. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) will hear arguments on Tuesday in Augusta, Georgia, on a petition contesting a license amendment that changes concrete wall tolerances for the Plant Vogtle expansion near Waynesboro, Georgia. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said late last week that it will hold an open house on the agency's annual safety review of the Columbia Generating Station nuclear power plant near Richland, Washington. , March 17. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said it recently selected Jason Parent as a new resident inspector for Duke Energy’s Oconee Nuclear Station, near Seneca, South Carolina. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) began a special inspection of Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Perry, Ohio, this week after a recent manual reactor shutdown due to a temperature increase and a subsequent loss of power to cooling equipment. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) will hold a hearing this month regarding an early site permit (ESP) application for a parcel next to the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear power plants in Salem County, N.J. Read More »

Jeffrey Merrifield, chairman of the Nuclear Infrastructure Council's (NIC) Advanced Reactor Task Force, encouraged the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to revamp its Advanced Nuclear Reactor (ANR) licensing system during a recent press conference. Read More »

Terrestrial Energy said late last week that it will submit its design for its Integral Molten Salt reactor (IMSR) for a pre-licensing vendor-design review with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). Read More »

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) said this week that the company has been awarded several contracts to supply Radiation Monitoring Systems (RMS) to U.S. nuclear power plants, which must comply with new federal regulations. Read More »

Centrus Energy Corp. said late last week that it has finished its demonstration cascade of American Centrifuge machines at its plant in Piketon, Ohio, but plans to continue developing the technology at its facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, thanks to ongoing funding from the Department of Energy through its Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said this week that it has established a web page with background data and updates on the higher levels of NRC oversight on the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts, since problems were found in a recent inspection. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said this week that it is seeking public input on a draft environmental study supplement to the LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station's license-renewal application. Read More »

The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) expressed concerns this week over the Obama administration's unwillingness to make significant cost-cutting measures in its fiscal 2017 budget request for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Read More »

Anthony Pietrangelo, chief nuclear officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), issued a statement this week regarding tritium leakage from Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, New York. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) submitted a proposed operating budget of $970.2 million for fiscal 2017 to Congress this week. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said this week that it has approved two licenses for two more reactors at Nuclear Innovation North America’s (NINA) South Texas Project. Read More »