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 »

The Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) facility in Erwin, Tenn. has returned to the normal level of oversight and inspection, following an issued licensee performance review led by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Read More »

Centrus Energy Corp. said on Thursday that Daniel Poneman has been selected to replace John Welch as president and CEO. Poneman, the former U.S. deputy secretary of energy, will replace John Castellano, who has served as the company’s interim president and CEO since October 2014. Read More »

Officials at the Prairie Island nuclear generating plant near Red Wing, Minnesota, terminated its Notification of Unusual Event on Friday, a day after an unexplained fire alarm went off in the Unit 2 containment building. Read More »

Westinghouse Electric Co. said on Thursday that 42 of its fuel assemblies will be loaded into Unit 3 at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant after two weeks of ongoing performance inspections. The fuel assemblies have been the recent subject of criticism from Russia, which alleged imported fuel assemblies could put the plant and its personnel at risk. Read More »

A bipartisan group of Illinois are demanding that Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and other leaders in the Illinois House and Senate to keep operations running in the nuclear energy facilities. Illinois Representatives Rodney Davis and Adam Kinzinger are leading the effort. Read More »

The FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC) began a scheduled outage on Monday at FirstEnergy's Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Perry, Ohio, for maintenance and refueling. The company plans to install a new transformer that will help with reliability of power for operations at the plant. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hold an open house to discuss the annual assessment of safety at the St. Lucie nuclear plant. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has scheduled a meeting to discuss the annual assessment of the safety of the Watts Bar nuclear power plant's Unit 1. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has announced that it will publicly discuss the annual assessment of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant’s safety. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hold an open-house event on March 18 to answer questions about the NRC’s annual assessment of Turkey Point nuclear power plant's safety measures, the NRC said on Monday. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved Ameren Missouri’s Callaway Energy Center license-renewal application last week, allowing the energy center to operate until 2044. The original 40-year license would have expired in 2024. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has announced its renewal of the Callaway nuclear power plant’s operational licensing for an additional 20 years. Read More »

Assistant nuclear engineering professor at UT’s College of Engineering Mike Lang, along with a team of university researchers, have been studying the properties and performance of nuclear energy production materials and their response to highly ionizing radiation. Read More »

The Senate approved two nuclear education procedural measures last week that aim to attract greater economic development within Washington State along with the associated industry jobs. Read More »