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The Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan shut down early Sunday morning when water leaking from a tank passed a threshold set earlier by federal regulators. The leak from the safety injection refueling water tank had increased to 90 gallons per day before the manual shutdown, according to an event report...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has planned an informational meeting for Tuesday on pressurized thermal shock – a potential threat to pressurized water reactors that the agency has indicated could force an early retirement for the Palisades nuclear plant. Neutron radiation, thermal aging and...

Although federal inspectors recently upgraded the regulatory status of Michigan's Palisades nuclear plant, they plan to continue extra inspections at the facility through next year. The plant underwent an intensified inspection program following a yellow finding by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...

One Entergy reactor tripped and another was shut down to investigate a steam leak Sunday. At Entergy's FitzPatrick plant in Scriba, N.Y., the 852 megawatt GE type 4 boiling water reactor shut down automatically from full power after a main turbine trip at about 10 p.m. The shutdown was uncomplicated...

Palisades control room operators removed the plant from service on Sunday morning to repair a minor leak of cooling water inside the plant’s Containment building. There has been no release of radioactivity to the environment. Palisades is taking this conservative measure at this time because...

The Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan has returned to service following an unplanned outage to fix a water leak. The 778 megawatt pressurized water reactor was operating at 22 percent power Wednesday, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Operators had shut the plant down on June 12 when...

A Nuclear Regulatory Commission investigation into a control room electrical fault last fall and other issues at the Palisades nuclear plant has resulted in three formal violations and enhanced scrutiny from the agency. On Tuesday, the NRC announced a yellow finding related to a Sept. 25 electrical fault...

Operators shut down the reactor at the Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan Thursday to replace a seal on a control rod. An Entergy spokesman noted the preventative maintenance is unrelated to increased regulatory scrutiny following three recent findings by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Combustion...

The Vermont Yankee and Michigan’s Palisades nuclear plants powered back up over the weekend following mechanical problems at both locations Sept. 25. The Vermont Yankee spent most of last week at 44 percent power after an electrical problem caused one of the boiling water reactor’s recirculation...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is monitoring an Alert at the North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia, following today’s earthquake in central Virginia. The NRC is also monitoring Unusual Events, the lowest emergency classification, declared at several other Eastern U.S. nuclear power...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently dispatched materials experts to Michigan’s Palisades nuclear plant following a water service pump failure earlier this month. In a release Monday, the NRC announced it is conducting a special inspection at the plant after the failure of the pump, one of...

AREVA DZ, LLC, a joint venture of AREVA and Day & Zimmerman ECM, has signed agreements with Entergy Nuclear for future upgrades at all nine Entergy nuclear plant sites. The five-year agreements include full-scope Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) services for capital projects to...

- By Chris Reed - An electrical problem shut down the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant over the weekend, but the plant made a quick recovery and is back online at 100% power. A ground fault on one of three large cables that supply power to a station transformer at the Entergy plant in Covert Township...

- Edited By Tom Lamar - Power-Gen / Nuclear Power International Conference - Tuesday night at the Valencia Ballroom of the Orange County Convention Center, Power Engineering magazine recognized the 2010 Projects of the Year Award finalists and announced the winners. This year’s Projects of the...

- Edited By Tom Lamar - According to news reports, the body that washed up on the shore of Lake Michigan is that of a missing AREVA employee. Jeffrey Scott Stratton, 28, of Amherst, Va., was reported missing at about 2 p.m. Saturday. His body was found at about 10:45 a.m. Sunday near 538 B Ave...

ANS Report Shows Fleet Operates at More Than 90 Percent of Capacity - By Linton Levy - Nuclear energy continues to be the most reliable energy source in the United States with Entergy’s nuclear fleet leading the way, according to a report released by the American Nuclear Society. In the...

NRC INFORMATION NOTICE 2010-02: CONSTRUCTION-RELATED EXPERIENCE WITH CABLES, CONNECTORS, AND JUNCTION BOXES - Edited by Linton Levy - ADDRESSEES All current holders of and applicants for an early site permit, combined operating license, or standard design certification for a nuclear power plant...

Entergy gets 6-month extension from the NRC for spinoff - By Linton Levy - According to an AP report, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given Entergy Corp. an extra six months to try to win state approvals and get financing to spin off five nuclear plants in New England, New York and Michigan...

Nuclear spin off legal process will stretch out into the fall of 2009 - By Mark McFadden - Entergy has filed a proposal with utility regulators in New York state in an effort to get approval of its long-running plan to spin off some of its nuclear assets into Enexus, a separate company. Under the...