The Parliament of South Africa said the Portfolio Committee on Energy completed an oversight visit to the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa's (NECSA) Phelindaba facility on Wednesday. Read More »

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has named Jeffrey Lyash its new CEO and president, the Canadian Nuclear Association (CNA) said on Wednesday. Lyash has worked within the public and private sectors in the field of nuclear power generation. Most recently, he served as president of Power for the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company. Read More »

Fluor Corp. said on Wednesday that it has been awarded a five-year contract by Luminant Corp. to provide maintenance, engineering and other services at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, near Glen Rose, Texas. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) released its environmental-impact report on the Byron Station nuclear power plant near Byron, Illinois, on Thursday, concluding that nothing in the report would prevent license renewal for another 20 years. Read More »

Despite recently pulling out of an agreement to purchase part of an Arkansas power-station unit due to opposition from various stakeholders, Entergy Texas is still committed to meeting the growing electricity demands of the region. Read More »

The NEI said non-renewal of the U.S.-China nuclear cooperation agreement will cost the United States billions of dollars in exports and thousands of American jobs. Read More »

Sandia National Labs announced on Thursday that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to serve as a lead in a pilot program to support small companies in the clean-energy industry. Read More »

Energie Baden–Württemberg (EnBW) announced on Friday that the second unit at the Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant in Germany has been placed online following its annual inspection. Read More »

The Nuclear Energy Institute, a leading nuclear industry lobbying group, is urging the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a recent decision that it says undermines the Price-Anderson Act (PAA), part of a system put in place by Congress to establish federal safety standards for nuclear energy. Read More »

Grid modernization efforts from Ameren Illinois are delivering results, the company announced on Thursday. Read More »

Energy Systems (ES) announced on Friday that they have selected Will Barnes to serve as their Seattle area sales representative. Read More »

The South Carolina Electric and Gas Company (SCE&G) announced on Thursday that they have installed the first CA01 module at the Virgil C. Summer (V.C. Summer) Nuclear Generating Station. Read More »

The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) are studying the aging process in certain reactor parts to understand long-term reactor operations, the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) reported Thursday. Read More »

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The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) states that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) needs to refine its processes or determine which rule proposals do offer safety and security benefits, they announced July 23. Read More »

The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) said late last week that it has called on the U.S. Senate to block a measure that would allow a bilateral nuclear trade agreement with China to expire. Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tom Cotton (R-AK) introduced a resolution that disapproves of the agreement on earlier this month. Read More »

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a photographic essay on Monday that details the agency's efforts at facilitating peace and security on an international scale. Read More »

Plateau Uranium said on Monday that it has begun the process of updating the Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) of its Macusani Plateau uranium projects in Peru. Read More »

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology will hold a hearing on the licensing process of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Wednesday. NRC Chairman Stephen Burns is scheduled as the hearing's only witness. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published its final report detailing the environmental impacts of renewing the operating licenses of the Byron Station nuclear power plant in Illinois, concluding that the impacts would not preclude renewing the plant’s licenses for an additional 20 years. Read More »