A signing ceremony was held at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Thursday in Paris to extend the Framework Agreement for International Collaboration on Research and Development of Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems for another 10 years. Read More »

The European Commission has developed an Energy Union to guarantee that every European maintains access to secure, competitive, sustainable and affordable energy. Read More »

The Limerick Generating Station’s Unit 1 nuclear reactor, located approximately 21 miles northwest of Philadelphia, went back online today and is again operating at full power. Read More »

The first popular science book on atomic energy in Bangla was presented by Russian atomic energy corporation Rosatom at Bangla Academy’s Ekushey Book Fair last Thursday. Read More »

Horizon Nuclear Power issued an open letter last week to former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan Read More »

A Nuclear Energy Insider report last week has identified the challenges faced by the sector in the past eight months and what's required to forge a clear path forward for small modular reactors (SMRs). Read More »

Plant personnel and supplemental employees worked on a Unit 3 refueling outage early Monday at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in in Buchanan, New York, station officials said. Read More »

Entergy Corp. said on Tuesday that Patrick Condon and Karen Puckett have been elected to the company's board of directors. Condon, who currently serves on the board of directors at Cloud Peak Energy and is chairman of the audit committee and a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee, spent more than 30 years at Arthur Andersen LLP and nine years at Deloitte & Touche LLP before retiring in 2011. Read More »

The National Society of Professional Engineers named Gabriel Taylor, a senior fire protection engineer at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), as one of the top 19 professional engineers in the federal government at a recent National Press Club ceremony. Read More »

International industry experts will host a discussion and workshop on integrating small modular reactors (SMRs) into nuclear co-generation and hybrid energy systems at the Fifth Annual Small Modular Reactor Summit 2015, April 14-15 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Read More »

Amana encourages approval of amendment to keep nuclear material safe Read More »

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp., announced Tuesday that Samuel Belcher is its new president and chief nuclear officer. Read More »

Officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) have decided to place Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant under increased NRC oversight after a recent NRC inspection finding. Read More »

Entergy Louisiana, LLC, signed a five-year agreement this week to provide an additional 60 megawatts of electricity to power CF Industries’ expanding nitrogen facility in Donaldsonville, increasing its production capacity by over 40 percent. Read More »

The Omaha Public Power District's (OPPD) board of directors is closer to deciding whom to hire as the company's new president and CEO to succeed W. Gary Gates, the board said Wednesday. Read More »

New package includes $94.4 million in customer investment fund Read More »

U.S. Reps. Rodney Davis (R-IL) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) headed a bipartisan coalition of the Illinois Congressional Delegation Wednesday, which communicated considerable support for maintaining Illinois’ leadership in nuclear energy. Read More »

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, issued an opening statement Wednesday during a subcommittee hearing to review the president’s fiscal year 2016 budget request for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Read More »

Operators of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant in Red Wing, Minnesota, declared a Notification of Unusual Event Thursday after a fire alarm sounded in the Unit 2 containment building. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has released their annual performance review letters for the nation’s 100 commercial nuclear power plants. Read More »