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NRC to hold open forum on Arkansas Nuclear One plant
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff will meet with Entergy Operations representatives in Russellville, Arkansas, May 12 to review the agency’s 2014 performance assessment for Arkansas Nuclear One.
NRC inspects Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant after power disturbance
Following an April 7 incident at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant in southern Maryland, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission dispatched a three-member team Monday to review and assess equipment response.
NRC to hold public forum to review safety at Lead Cascade plant
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will conduct a public meeting on April 21 at the Ohio State University Endeavor Center, 1864 Shyville Road in Piketon, Ohio, to discuss American Centrifuge…
FEMA schedules Three Mile Island area preparedness drill
FEMA has scheduled an emergency-preparedness exercise for the week of April 13 in Pennsylvania to assess the state’s disaster-preparedness ability in the event of an emergency at the Three Mile…
POWER improves outage-mapping technology
POWER Engineers, a global engineering consulting firm specializing in the delivery of integrated solutions in various industries, has achieved integration between Schneider Electric’s Responder system and a mapping-application suite devised…
Plant-outage workers fuel towns’ economic reactors
Not every team of outage workers can boast about being “a well-starched crew,” but that’s exactly how Monaca Comfort Suites general manager Carol Portis describes her occasional guests, thanks to…
Canadian government approves NRU extension
Canada will support continued function of the NRU reactor between Oct. 31, 2016 and March 31, 2018
Southern Company’s Plant Hatch performs safe nuclear refueling
Baxley, Georgia, electric generating Plant operators took a unit offline Feb. 9 to perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades.
IAEA official tells students science is ‘basis of the future’
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano spoke to a group of high school students recently in Manila, the Philippines, emphasizing that science is crucial to development.
Students face off at VEX robotics tournament
Kearney High School held a VEX robotics local tournament on Saturday at Sunrise Middle School in Kearney, Nebraska, in which 30 area public school teams participated.
New nuclear energy technology roadmap published
The International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) recently published the 2015 edition of the Technology Roadmap: Nuclear Energy.
IAEA director general underscores science as key to progress
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano told a group of high school students in the Philippines today that science is crucial to economic progress and human development.