Global Power Equipment Group said on Friday that CEO and President Luis Manuel Ramirez has resigned and is no longer on the board of directors. "We thank Luis for the contributions he made to Global Power during his tenure,” Global Power Chairman of the Board Charles Macaluso said. Read More »

San Diego-based Sempra Energy said on Monday that its subsidiary, Port Arthur LNG, has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to begin the pre-filing review process for the company's proposed natural gas liquefaction and export facility, which would be built in Port Arthur, Texas. Read More »

US Nuclear Corp. said on Monday that it has received a new order for portal/personnel monitors from Nucleoelectrica Argentina S.A., Argentina's state-run nuclear power company. "Nucleoelectrica Argentina is one of our valued partners in nuclear energy in South America," Robert Goldstein, president, CEO and chairman of US Nuclear Corp., said. Read More »

Toronto-based Mega Uranium Ltd. said last week that Sheldon Inwentash has retired both as the chairman and as a member of the company's board of directors. Read More »

The State Department said on March 20 that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) has successfully expanded the non-military and productive uses of nuclear energy. Read More »

LINN Energy, LLC recently announced that it has signed a non-binding agreement with Quantum Energy Partners, a private capital investor, to finance future natural gas and oil developments and acquisitions. Read More »

The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), an energy service provider, began taking steps last week to split into two stand-alone companies. Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, a newly created subsidiary that will include the company’s power-generation business, filed an initial Form 10 Registration Statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Read More »

NuScale Power said on Tuesday that it has hired John Eustermann as general counsel and Carl Britsch as vice president of human resources. “We are not only recruiting top technical talent to NuScale,” John Hopkins, NuScale’s chairman and CEO, said. Read More »

The Montpelier, Vermont, Public Service Department announced that the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel will meet Thursday from 6-9 p.m. at Brattleboro Union High School, 131 Fairground Road in Brattleboro. Read More »

The Senate Budget Committee advanced an amendment, introduced by U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), to the fiscal year 2016 budget last week that would increase funding for the Department of Energy’s nuclear waste cleanup program, which includes the Hanford site in central Washington. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff is holding a public meeting tomorrow with representatives of Northern States Power Company of Minnesota to discuss the agency’s assessment of last year's safety performance at the Monticello Nuclear Power Plant. Read More »

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) led a three-day meeting last week allowing U.S. and Japanese emergency experts to share ideas on enhancing nuclear emergency preparedness and on- and off-site response capabilities. Read More »

According to a recent statement from the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), there may be potential progress in the future of managing high-level waste and used nuclear fuel. This hopeful future is revealed in two recent events, one of which is a bipartisan Senate bill introduced that will reform the waste management program. Read More »

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) met last week with a Chinese group to advance the state of a new type of nuclear reactor. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) wants to change its regulations to lower the currently hourly rate and change the flat license application fees. Read More »

Energy Fuels recently presented its financial results ending Dec. 31, reporting $46.25 million of total revenue and a gross profit of $15.97 million from mining and milling operations. Read More »

Organizations attending the fifth annual Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Summit April 14-15 in Charlotte, North Carolina, hope to develop a standard design to boost worldwide use a type of nuclear reactor. Read More »

Nuclear Matters participated in a recent Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) Energy 101 briefing in Columbus, Ohio, led by a former U.S. senator from Arkansas, Blanche Lincoln. The event highlighted the benefits of nuclear power to an audience containing approximately 40 Ohio legislators. Read More »

Draft environmental study part of license renewal process for nuclear plant. Read More »

AREVA announced on Tuesday that a vessel head was delivered last week to the Tihange nuclear power plant in Belgium. Read More »