The Nine Mile Unit 1 Nuclear Station returned to its full operations Tuesday after nearly a month of being offline, Exelon announced. Read More »

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP), the world’s fifth-largest nuclear power supplier, recently awarded Veolia a contract for the next three years. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that an open house will be held April 22, which will allow the public access to the assessments of two units at the Hatch nuclear plant. Read More »

The California Independent System Operator Corp. (ISO) and PacifiCorp on Tuesday announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding indicating that the energy company will explore full participation in the ISO as a Participating Transmission Owner. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) initiated a special inspection Tuesday at the Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) facility in Erwin, Tennessee, to evaluate the internal circumstances involving an unintended chemical reaction. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is hosting an open house April 21 in Ontario, New York, to review the safety performance of Exelon’s R.E. Ginna nuclear power plant. Read More »

Duke Energy recently said the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved the sale of its nonregulated Midwest commercial generation business to Dynegy.  After the closing of the deal, Duke netted $2.8 billion, which it plans to use to improve its services to consumers and to facilitate the repurchasing of common shares. This will help the company generate capital for shareholders. Read More »

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said last week that officials from 11 countries and one United Nations representative recently toured NNSA laboratories in connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Read More »

Following an April 7 incident at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant in southern Maryland, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission dispatched a three-member team Monday to review and assess equipment response. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will conduct a public meeting on April 21 at the Ohio State University Endeavor Center, 1864 Shyville Road in Piketon, Ohio, to discuss American Centrifuge Operating’s facility at Lead Cascade. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hold an open house April 26 to discuss the agency’s review of the Farley nuclear power plant’s 2014 safety performance and the agency’s oversight plans for 2015. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is hosting an open house Monday to review the safety performance of the Point Beach nuclear power plant. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hold a meeting on Thursday with representatives of Chicago Bridge and Iron AREVA Mixed Oxide (MOX) Services to discuss the results of a performance review on the ongoing construction of a MOX facility at a Savannah River site near Aiken, South Carolina. Read More »

Exelon said last week that its Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant has been restored to full power after the plant’s two units were shut down on April 7 due to an issue with an offsite grid, disrupting power in the Washington, D.C. and Maryland area. Read More »

The University of Tennessee announced last week that its nuclear engineering department head has received a Southeastern Conference (SEC) award for outstanding teaching and scholarship. Read More »

President Barack Obama recently released his statement concerning the presidential determination on the proposed agreement for cooperation between the governments of the United States and China concerning peaceful uses of nuclear energy, saying the deal will benefit the U.S. and improve the security and common defense of the two nations. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced last week it has approved PPL Corp.’s proposal to indirectly transfer licenses to operate both units at its Susquehanna nuclear power plant. Read More »

PPL Corp. announced last week that it disconnected one of its units at the company’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant for routine maintenance. Read More »

State Sen. Melinda Bush (D-IL) said on Friday that Exelon should pay an impact fee to the City of Zion for nuclear waste stored at its decommissioned power plant there. Exelon shuttered the Zion facility in 1998, and the plant is now in the process of being decommissioned. Read More »

FEMA has scheduled an emergency-preparedness exercise for the week of April 13 in Pennsylvania to assess the state’s disaster-preparedness ability in the event of an emergency at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Central Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River. Read More »