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...

Entergy has returned the Indian Point 3 reactor to service Thursday after deactivating it Wednesday to reconnect the auxiliary transformer, according to a release. Before the shutdown, the unit had been operating since March 1 after being taken out of service on Feb. 29 to disconnect the transformer...

In a new release Sunday, Southern Co. announced that Vogtle nuclear plant's Unit 1 reactor will resume operation after a brief shutdown. The reactor was taken down Saturday afternoon because of a water pump issue, the release said. "The Vogtle team did an outstanding job safely taking...

PG&E has shut down the Unit 2 reactor at Diablo Canyon Power Plant due to an infestation of small jellyfish-like creatures called sea salp. The company stated in a release that it will not restart the unit until conditions improve at the intake structure - which is currently clogged with the creatures...

An Unusual Event was declared at PSE&G-owned Salem nuclear plant in New Jersey after the Unit 1 reactor tripped and experienced a safety injection (SI) signal due to a high steam flow coincident with a low steam pressure signal, according to a Monday report. According to the NRC, "At the...

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...