Thanks for your replies! I can understand the economics part of it....supply and demand...and demand is down. What I don't get is why it takes the NRC so long for the review.? Sure, it is a money maker for them but when they are reviewing a design like the EPR (that the French approved and...

I think the NRC is currently doing a good job. They have said it will take up to 3 years to review a license application. I think this is a reasonable time frame. In the past, the NRC has taken a long time for approving both construction and operation permits. (In the past these were two separate licenses...

It will take courageous political representatives and caring citizens like yourself to speak up about the unfair restrictions placed on Nuclear energy. The whole regimented and punitive approach needs changing. The application is enormously expensive and the company is out $50 million if they are turned...

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The NRC is asking for public comments on its Reactor Oversight Process. It's geared towards to individuals already are familiar with the program. If you are interested, you can go to its website: http://www.nrc.gov/NRR/OVERSIGHT/ASSESS/index.html ; the link to the survey is on the right called Take...

The attached Order gives guidance and strategies if the loss of power, motive force, and normal access to the ultimate heat sink to prevent fuel damage in the reactor and SFP, affected all units at a site simultaneously. This Order requires a three-phase approach for mitigating beyond-design-basis external...

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Catawba Nuclear Power Plant's Unit 1 reactor tripped offline Wednesday due to a loss of power, according to an NRC report. The incident was declared an "unusual event" by operators, but the warning was cancelled five hours later when power was partially restored. The trip was at no...

Power was restored at the Catawba plant Thursday afternoon, according to the NRC and plant owner Duke Energy. On Wednesday, the plant declared an unusual event when the Unit 1 reactor tripped offline due to a loss of power . There was no radiation released and no impact to plant workers or the...

A small leak in the non-radioactive cooling system has caused the Oconee Nuclear's Unit 2 reactor to shut down for repairs Friday. The situation is classified as a non-emergency and the plant is operating safely, according to a report filed with the NRC . The leak was discovered in February in...

Officials say Entergy's Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth has been shut down after a condenser at the station lost vacuum pressure during a cleaning, officials said. Officials said the incident happened at about 1:10 p.m. on Tuesday with the plant was operating at about 30 percent capacity...

The Pilgrim nuclear power plant returned to service Saturday after an emergency shutdown on May 23. The plant was manually shut down when workers detected reduced air pressure in the facility’s condenser , according to spokesmen for the NRC and Entergy, the plant’s owner. It marked the...

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I think the MHI steam generators are the ultimate reason they have to shut down the plant but if the NRC response was more timely, that would probably prevent this decision. There needs to be a "elevated level" for the NRC response when it comes to making these decisions that impacts the power...