The expected demise of a decades-old restriction on new nuclear power plant construction in Wisconsin doesn’t necessarily mean an immediate turnaround of current events, Todd Stuart, executive director of the Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group (WIEG), said. Read More »
Southern Company said recently that it will lead the Carbon Capture International Test Center Network (ITCN), a global group that is encouraging research and development (R&D) into carbon-capture technologies. 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 »
The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) said recently that nuclear power plants have invested approximately $4 billion in safety enhancements since the Fukushima Daiichi plant disaster in Japan five years ago. Read More »
Exelon Corp. said recently that it has appointed Bill Trafton and Peter Karaba to serve as site vice presidents for the LaSalle and Dresden County stations, respectively. Read More »
Duke Energy Executive Vice President of Strategic Services A.R. Mullinax said this week that he plans to retire from the company effective May 1. Read More »
The South African nuclear build program will develop at a speed and price that the nation can afford, potentially generating 9,600 megawatts of electricity within the next 10 years, President Jacob Zuma said recently, though some have questioned whether such nuclear ambitions are outstripping economic realities. Read More »
Virginia regulators this week approved a merger between Southern Company and AGL Resources, which owns Virginia Natural Gas and serves an estimated 290,000 customers with natural gas service in southeastern Virginia. Read More »
Georgia Power has released photos from the expansion project at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, Georgia, documenting recent progress in adding two reactors to the plant. Read More »
Finnish nuclear power company TVO said recently that increased international media interest in the project to build a third nuclear reactor, OL3, at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in Eurajoki, Finland, revolves around project manager AREVA's evolving ownership situation involving the French government. Read More »
The Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Unit 3 began a scheduled maintenance and refueling outage late last week. 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 »
Following passage of Wisconsin Assembly Bill 384 by the state's legislative branch, NEI Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs Alex Flint issued a statement of praise for the measure, which would end the state's 32-year-old ban on new nuclear plants. Read More »
Nikolai Spasskiy, deputy CEO of ROSATOM, recently held negotiations with a delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) under the leadership of Tero Varjoranta, deputy director general and head of the Department of Safeguards, to discuss the implementation of nuclear safeguards. Read More »
A recent report by Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois, de-bunks a persistent belief that all 49 scientists present at the University of Chicago's Stagg Field in 1942 to witness the birth of Chicago Pile 1 -- the world's first nuclear reactor -- died of cancer from radiation poisoning. Read More »
Participants at the recent 2016 African Energy Indaba Forum and Exhibition in Johannesburg, South Africa, said the continent will never reach its full potential if its nations' governments do not make significant investments in energy infrastructure. Read More »
Fission Uranium Corp. recently reported positive results from 11 drilling sites on the company's Patterson Lake South (PLS) property in the Athabasca Basin region of Canada. Read More »
AMETEK Solidstate Controls, one of the top providers of highly customized uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) in the world, said this week that it has named Daryl Malone its new regional sales manager. Read More »
Southern Company recently was named in Fortune magazine's 2016 "World’s Most Admired Companies" rankings for the seventh year in a row as one of the top three utilities globally. Read More »
The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) met this week with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano concerning the four nuclear power plants currently being built in the Gulf Arab state. Read More »
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