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 »

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) launched a series of workshops recently on small modular reactors (SMRs) – advanced, prefab nuclear power reactors that could be ready for the market by 2020 -- to train and prepare regulators and other industry stakeholders. Read More »

A refueling outage recently was initiated at Indian Point Nuclear Plant's Unit 2 reactor in Buchanan, New York, Entergy Corp. said. 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 »

Nuclear Matters Leadership Council member David Wright recently spoke at U.S. Women in Nuclear's Region II Conference in Columbia, South Carolina. 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 »

Energy Fuels Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mesteña Uranium LLC. Read More »

U.S. Nuclear Corp. has been awarded a $391,174 contract to outfit the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, Heavy Water Storage Facility in Canada with smart new tritium area monitors. Read More »

John Ketchum has been appointed executive vice president, finance, and chief financial officer for NextEra Energy Inc. Read More »

Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and John Barrasso (R-WY) sent a letter to  the comptroller general at the Government Accountability Office requesting information regarding the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s use of requests for additional information. Read More »

Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. recently reported that the strongest mineralized interval drilled to date within the Spitfire Zone has been intersected by Hole HK16-43, returning downhole probe results of 1.7 percent gamma probe results (eU3O8) over 31.2 meters including 13.3 percent eU3O8 over 2.2 meters. Read More »

Entergy has developed and launched GoEntergy.com, a freestanding website designed to attract site selectors and companies seeking to expand in the Gulf Coast region. Read More »

Nuclear experts from Japan and the United States recently announced that the safety standards in America had become even higher after the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident. Read More »

The new generation of students have chosen nuclear because they want to save the world, University of California-Berkeley professor Rachel Slaybaugh said. Read More »

Rosatom has confirmed the business program for the VIII International Forum, Atomexpo 2016, set for May 30 to June 1. Read More »

Since the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris in December, during which 195 countries adopted the Paris climate agreement, the focus is shifting to the nuclear industry and uranium prices. Read More »

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano said in a speech to the IAEA Board of Governors this week in Vienna that renovations at IAEA nuclear-applications laboratories, monitoring and verification efforts in Iran, and overall nuclear-plant safety and security will be priorities for the agency this year. Read More »

AREVA NP recently refurbished the reactor coolant pumps at Surry Power Station in southeastern Virginia in a project that required component manufacturing in addition to reactor coolant-pump maintenance. Read More »

Uravan Minerals Inc. said recently that it will focus its uranium exploration efforts on its Outer Ring property in the Athabasca Basin's Cable Bay structural corridor. Read More »