Participants at the recent 2016 African Energy Indaba Forum and Exhibition in Johannesburg, South Africa, said the continent will never reach its full potential if its nations' governments do not make significant investments in energy infrastructure. Read More »

A recent report by Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois, de-bunks a persistent belief that all 49 scientists present at the University of Chicago's Stagg Field in 1942 to witness the birth of Chicago Pile 1 -- the world's first nuclear reactor -- died of cancer from radiation poisoning. Read More »

Nikolai Spasskiy, deputy CEO of ROSATOM, recently held negotiations with a delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) under the leadership of Tero Varjoranta, deputy director general and head of the Department of Safeguards, to discuss the implementation of nuclear safeguards. Read More »

Following passage of Wisconsin Assembly Bill 384 by the state's legislative branch, NEI Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs Alex Flint issued a statement of praise for the measure, which would end the state's 32-year-old ban on new nuclear plants. Read More »

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) said this week that the company has been awarded several contracts to supply Radiation Monitoring Systems (RMS) to U.S. nuclear power plants, which must comply with new federal regulations. Read More »

The Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Unit 3 began a scheduled maintenance and refueling outage late last week. Read More »

Finnish nuclear power company TVO said recently that increased international media interest in the project to build a third nuclear reactor, OL3, at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in Eurajoki, Finland, revolves around project manager AREVA's evolving ownership situation involving the French government. Read More »

Georgia Power has released photos from the expansion project at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, Georgia, documenting recent progress in adding two reactors to the plant. Read More »

Virginia regulators this week approved a merger between Southern Company and AGL Resources, which owns Virginia Natural Gas and serves an estimated 290,000 customers with natural gas service in southeastern Virginia. Read More »

The South African nuclear build program will develop at a speed and price that the nation can afford, potentially generating 9,600 megawatts of electricity within the next 10 years, President Jacob Zuma said recently, though some have questioned whether such nuclear ambitions are outstripping economic realities. Read More »

Duke Energy Executive Vice President of Strategic Services A.R. Mullinax said this week that he plans to retire from the company effective May 1. Read More »