The Entergy-owned Palisades nuclear plant went offline Sunday at 10:26 am for scheduled refueling and maintenance. During the shutdown, 64 new fuel assemblies will be placed in the reactor. Other major work includes an inspection of the reactor vessel head, replacement of five control rod seal packages...

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FNOC) - a subsidiary of FirstEnergy - has shut down its 911 MW Unit 1 reactor at the Beaver Valley plant for scheduled refueling and maintenance. Inspectors will perform preventative maintenance and 65 of the reactor's 157 fuel assemblies, according to spokesperson...

E.ON reconnected its nuclear reactor at Grohnde to the grid on April 22, the Lower Saxony environment ministry said in a release Monday. The 1,430 MW reactor, located in northern Germany, was reconnected after completing maintenance work which began on April 5.

At Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan, Ala., Southern Co. has returned the Unit 1 reactor to service following a 25-day long period of refueling and maintenance. The outage was completed safely and efficiently, according to a Friday release by the company. "We achieved our number one priority...

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...

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., announced it has shut down its Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio, for scheduled refueling and maintenance. While the 908-megawatt unit is offline, 68 of the 177 fuel assemblies will be replaced and...

EDF Energy shut down down its Sizewell and Torness 2 reactors Sunday, according to a statement by the company. The statement said that the reactor at Sizewell was taken offline for scheduled maintenance, but it did not indicate whether Torness 2 was a planned or unplanned outage. The two reactors...

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...

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...