Despite record cold, all three Exelon Generation nuclear plants in Pennsylvania provided enough around-the-clock, carbon-free electricity for five million homes and businesses. Read More »

Talen Energy today announced the promotion of Brad Berryman to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer. Read More »

Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it will collaborate in the development of its EnCore® Fuel, the revolutionary accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) design, with ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas (ENUSA) through a Frame Cooperation Agreement (FCA). Read More »

Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it has signed a nuclear fuel and related services contract extension with Xcel Energy for its two pressurized water reactor units at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant in Red Wing, Minnesota. Read More »

Westinghouse Electric Company, China State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) and CNNC Sanmen Nuclear Power Company Limited (SMNPC) announced today that the world’s first unit of AP1000 nuclear power plant located in Sanmen, Zhejiang Province, China, has received the fuel load permit from China’s National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) and has commenced initial fuel loading. Read More »

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) jointly shared the 2018 Carnegie Mellon Power Sector Carbon Index during CMU Energy Week at the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation in Pittsburgh. Read More »

Westinghouse Electric Company issued the following announcement on Feb. 22.Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a Cooperation Agreement for lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) technology development with the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) and Ansaldo Nucleare. Read More »

Jeff Benjamin, Westinghouse Electric Co.'s senior vice president of new plants and major projects, responded this week to a joint quarterly report from United Kingdom regulators on the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) closure program for Westinghouse’s AP1000 reactor design. Read More »

Limerick nuclear plant in Limerick Township, Pennsylvania, took its Unit 1 reactor offline this week for a planned refueling outage. Read More »

Susquehanna nuclear plant, near Berwick, Pennsylvania, recently began a scheduled refueling outage on its Unit 1 reactor, plant operator Talen Energy said. Read More »

Westinghouse Electric Co. announced this week that it was selected by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to provide inspection and maintenance for four nuclear reactors. Read More »

Westinghouse Electric Co. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ukraine’s PJSC Turboatum this week, agreeing to pursue increased capacity in the country’s nuclear power plants, and others around the world, through cooperative efforts. Read More »

CEZ, based in the Czech Republic, has chosen Westinghouse Electric Co. to supply Temelin Nuclear Power Station with six Lead Test Assemblies (LTAs), Westinghouse said this week. Read More »

Westinghouse Electric Co. said this week that it was hired to provide refueling outage and inspection services for Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar and Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plants. Read More »

Ukrainian officials said late last week that the first Westinghouse Electric Co. shipment of nuclear fuel assemblies has arrived under a new contract. Read More »

Exelon Corp. said late last week that the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station in Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania, has completed an extended power uprate (EPU) to increase its maximum generation capacity. Read More »

Westinghouse Electric Co. celebrated the 130th anniversary of the company's founding late last week. Read More »

Westinghouse Electric's Springfields nuclear-fuel production facility in Salwick, England,  has reached the capacity requirements necessary to manufacture small modular reactor (SMR) fuel assemblies, the company said this week. Read More »

Westinghouse Electric Co. said on Monday that U.S. regulators have approved its acquisition of CB&I Stone & Webster, CB&I's nuclear construction and integrated services unit. Read More »

Westinghouse Electric Co. said it recently completed testing on a containment vessel to be used at the Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant, currently under construction in the Shandong Province of China. Read More »