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Duke Energy said tritiated water leaked from its Catawba nuclear plant on Wednesday , reporting the event to regulators but emphasizing tritium levels were within safe limits. More than 100 gallons leaked from a fiberglass discharge pipe from a unit 2 turbine building sump, according to a report filed...

Tuesday brought bad news for the operators of three U.S. nuclear plants, with two facing significant regulatory violations and a third undergoing inspections following a power outage last week. Florida Power and Light faces a $140,000 fine from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission related to an issue at...

Unit 1 at the Catawba nuclear plant in South Carolina tripped Monday night after offsite power to the plant was cut. The unit shut down normally just after 8 p.m., according to an event report from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and its four diesel emergency generators provided electricity until...

The Department of Energy is looking for ways to dispose of plutonium from nuclear weapons. - By Tom Lamar - A public hearing on the Tennessee Valley Authority possibly using reprocessed weapons plutonium to power some reactors in north Alabama and Tennessee attracted about 70 people on Tuesday...

Hutto joined the NRC in 1998 as a resident inspector at Progress Energy’s Robinson plant near Hartsville, S.C. Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials have selected Andy Hutto as the new senior resident inspector at Duke Energy’s Catawba nuclear power plant, located near York, S.C., about...