Exelon said recently that Credit Suisse’s Daniel Eggers will become its senior vice president of investor relations, in which he will oversee strategies and activities for the company’s investor relations, effective March 29. Read More »

Exelon Corp. and Pepco Holdings submitted a filing this week with the District of Columbia’s Public Service Commission (PSC) that modifies terms in a recent settlement over their proposed merger. Read More »

Through a concerted international effort involving several federal agencies, the Swiss and U.S. governments recently transported 20 kg of separated plutonium, the nation's only remaining supply of it, to the U.S., furthering international nonproliferation efforts to limit stores of weapons-grade plutonium. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week that it will hold a public meeting to discuss the agency’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) program and its ongoing efforts to keep the public informed, 1-3 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, at the NRC's Two White Flint North Auditorium, 11545 Rockville Pike, in Rockville, Maryland. Read More »

Dominion Resources and Questar Corp. recently filed joint merger applications with the Public Service Commissions of Utah and Wyoming, and alerted the Idaho Public Utilities Commission about their proposed transaction. Read More »

Uravan Minerals Inc. said recently that it will focus its uranium exploration efforts on its Outer Ring property in the Athabasca Basin's Cable Bay structural corridor. Read More »

AREVA NP recently refurbished the reactor coolant pumps at Surry Power Station in southeastern Virginia in a project that required component manufacturing in addition to reactor coolant-pump maintenance. Read More »

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano said in a speech to the IAEA Board of Governors this week in Vienna that renovations at IAEA nuclear-applications laboratories, monitoring and verification efforts in Iran, and overall nuclear-plant safety and security will be priorities for the agency this year. Read More »

Since the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris in December, during which 195 countries adopted the Paris climate agreement, the focus is shifting to the nuclear industry and uranium prices. Read More »

Rosatom has confirmed the business program for the VIII International Forum, Atomexpo 2016, set for May 30 to June 1. Read More »

The new generation of students have chosen nuclear because they want to save the world, University of California-Berkeley professor Rachel Slaybaugh said. Read More »

Nuclear experts from Japan and the United States recently announced that the safety standards in America had become even higher after the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident. Read More »

Entergy has developed and launched GoEntergy.com, a freestanding website designed to attract site selectors and companies seeking to expand in the Gulf Coast region. Read More »

Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. recently reported that the strongest mineralized interval drilled to date within the Spitfire Zone has been intersected by Hole HK16-43, returning downhole probe results of 1.7 percent gamma probe results (eU3O8) over 31.2 meters including 13.3 percent eU3O8 over 2.2 meters. Read More »

Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and John Barrasso (R-WY) sent a letter to  the comptroller general at the Government Accountability Office requesting information regarding the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s use of requests for additional information. Read More »

John Ketchum has been appointed executive vice president, finance, and chief financial officer for NextEra Energy Inc. Read More »

U.S. Nuclear Corp. has been awarded a $391,174 contract to outfit the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, Heavy Water Storage Facility in Canada with smart new tritium area monitors. Read More »

Energy Fuels Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mesteña Uranium LLC. Read More »

U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and John Barrasso (R-WY) recently wrote a letter to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, asking him to investigate the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) use of requests for additional information (RAIs) when reviewing reactor-license applications, a practice that the senators allege the agency might be employing too often. Read More »

Nuclear Matters Leadership Council member David Wright recently spoke at U.S. Women in Nuclear's Region II Conference in Columbia, South Carolina. Read More »