GE Hitachi's (GEH) remotely operated Stinger In-Vessel Visual Inspection (IVVI) tool reached a milestone recently when it was deployed for the ninth time for a refueling outage at a U.S. reactor. Read More »
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) scheduled a meeting with officials from Entergy Operations, which operates the Arkansas Nuclear One station in Russellville, to discuss the plant’s safety performance during 2015. Read More »
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff will host an open-house meeting next week concerning its 2015 safety-performance review of Florida Power & Light Co.’s St. Lucie nuclear plant, near Jensen Beach. Read More »
The LaSalle County nuclear plant, near Marseilles, Illinois, recently returned Unit 1 to full power following a scheduled outage for refueling and maintenance that saw workers perform more than 12,600 inspections, maintenance activities and updates since Feb. 15. Read More »
The California Public Utilities Commission this week approved a proposed merger of Southern Company and AGL Resources, bringing the process one step closer to completion. Read More »
The Oglethorpe Power Corp. Board of Directors re-elected Chairman Bobby Smith and Vice Chairman Marshall Millwood, and elected a new member, Randy Crenshaw, at a board meeting this week after the company’s annual meeting. Read More »
Jeff Benjamin, Westinghouse Electric Co.'s senior vice president of new plants and major projects, responded this week to a joint quarterly report from United Kingdom regulators on the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) closure program for Westinghouse’s AP1000 reactor design. Read More »
Past studies on the construction costs of nuclear power reactors have been considered incomplete because analysis was only done on two countries -- the U.S. and France, a new research paper said. Read More »
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hold an open house today to discuss last year's performance of the Turkey Point nuclear plant near Homestead, Florida. Read More »
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is holding an open house today in Salem, New Jersey, on the 2015 performance of the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear plants. Read More »
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hold an open house today on its performance review of the Oconee nuclear plant, near Seneca, South Carolina. Read More »
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is holding an all-day open house today on external hazard screening to identify threats beyond flooding and earthquakes in the wake of 2011's Fukushima disaster in Japan. Read More »
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public open house today on its 2015 performance review of the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant near Delta, Pennsylvania. Read More »
Exelon will hold an open house tonight on current operations at its Braidwood nuclear plant near Braidwood, Illinois. Read More »
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hold an open house 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday on the performance review of the Unit 3 reactor at Entergy's Waterford nuclear plant in Killona, Louisiana. Read More »
While the world's most notable nuclear-plant disasters, in Chernobyl and Fukushima, were devastating, they had more to do with ineptitude in one case, and Mother Nature in the other, rather than with any hazards of nuclear power, an Oxford researcher said. Read More »
House Republicans recently proposed a $66 million cut to the proposed 2017 budget for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Read More »
Alex Flint, senior vice president of governmental affairs for the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) issued a statement praising Wisconsin for recently lifting its 33-year-old moratorium on building new nuclear energy plants in the state. Read More »
As Washington ponders a bill that would increase funding and research for nuclear energy, a Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) spokesman explained the potential impact of the legislation and the importance of creating a "new generation of reactor technologies." Read More »
The fourth Nuclear Industry Summit was held recently in Washington, D.C., where hundreds of nuclear energy industry leaders convened to discuss the future of nuclear technology, cybersecurity and the securing of nuclear materials, among other topics. Read More »
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