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Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant’s Unit 2 reactor returned to full power at 4:09 a.m. CDT today after workers completed a scheduled maintenance and refueling outage. During the outage, which started Feb. 22, approximately 400 contractors joined with the plant’s 800 employees to...

Areva announced it has completed outage work at the DC Cook plant with extremely low-dose (radiation) exposure during the planned spring outage, according to a Tuesday release. The AREVA team handling steam generator maintenance work on DC Cook Unit 2 as part of the recent outage successfully completed...

Exelon has removed Limerick Nuclear Plant's Unit 2 reactor from service for a scheduled maintenance outage so workers can replace two steam relief valves. Plant personnel will complete the maintenance and fully test the new components before returning the unit to service. The repairs can only be...

EDF's 900-MW Gravelines 6 nuclear reactor in northern France experienced an unplanned outage on Monday at 9:35 GMT, France's power grid RTE said on its website. An EDF spokesman said the outage had been caused by a default on a sensor that measures the good working order of the reactor. ...

After shutting Sizewell B down due to a potential issue with its lubrication system on Sunday, EDF resumed operation of the nuclear plant's two turbines Tuesday. The short maintenance outage was a precautionary measure, according to Sizewell B director Jim Crawford. “Safety is our over...

Spain's 1,000-MW Almaraz ll nuclear power station was disconnected Sunday afternoon for scheduled refueling, operators said Monday. The outage is expected to last about 40 days. Spain's seven other nuclear plants were working normally.

DTE Energy has restarted its Fermi 2 Nuclear Power Plant following a refueling and maintenance outage that began March 26. "The Fermi 2 team completed an enormous amount of work during the outage, while always keeping safety as the top priority," said Jack Davis, senior vice president and...