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Workers extinguished a small fire in the turbine hall of Entergy's Pilgrim nuclear plant Monday, interrupting its startup following a refueling outage. At about 4 a.m., workers detected a fire in an auxiliary oil pump motor, and the on-site fire brigade put it out with a fire extinguisher, according...

An appeals court has denied an effort by the state of Massachusetts to reopen the decision to grant a license extension to the Pilgrim nuclear plant. The state's attorney general contended that the decision should have considered safety issues raised by similar boiling water reactors and spent fuel...

Entergy's Pilgrim nuclear plant remained offline Monday after a weekend that brought extreme winter weather and two separate power outages at the Massachusetts nuclear plant. On Friday, parts of the Northeast received as much as three feet of snow during a storm that knocked out electricity to 667...

Security personnel at a Massachusetts nuclear plant responded to the sound of gunfire Saturday morning, only to learn later that the shots came from duck hunters on adjacent land. Before the source of the shooting was identified, the shift manager on duty at Entergy's Pilgrim nuclear plant activated...

Anticipating retirements at multiple sites, Entergy on Monday announced it will move several key executives within its nuclear fleet. Beginning Feb. 4, Grand Gulf Site Vice President Mike Perito will become a senior Entergy vice president with responsibility for the FitzPatrick, Pilgrim and Vermont Yankee...

Entergy and a union representing workers at its Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts reached a hard-fought contract agreement over the weekend, with the Utility Workers of America Local 369 voting to accept a new four-year contract Sunday night. The agreement ends three months of negotiations and what...

An impasse in labor negotiations continues at Entergy’s Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts, with union members voting down the latest contract offer and picketing near the plant. The rejected contract proposal is the latest in two months of negotiations between Entergy and the Utility Workers...

Entergy and a union representing workers at its Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts have reached a tentative breakthrough in labor negotiations that have left the plant without a substantial number of its local workers for two weeks. According to a notice published by the Utility Workers Union of...

A labor dispute at the Pilgrim nuclear plant may be headed to the National Labor Relations Board after the Utility Workers of America Local 369 filed a complaint with the federal body. In what plant owner Entergy describes as contingency staffing, and what the union calls a lockout, about 250 union workers...

Unionized Pilgrim nuclear plant workers returned to the picket line Wednesday after another breakdown in contract discussions prompted Entergy to implement its “contingency staffing plan,” described by union members as a lockout. Union employees were escorted from the plant at midnight after...

The holiday weekend saw two significant developments for Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Plant near Plymouth, Mass. On Friday the company announced it received a 20-year license extension for the plant after six years and the longest relicensing process in Nuclear Regulatory Commission history. The original...

The Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts remained offline Wednesday after a manual shutdown prompted by a degraded vacuum in its main condenser. At 1:11 p.m. Tuesday, the plant was at 35 percent core thermal power for a backwash of the main condenser, according to an event report filed with the Nuclear...

A protest opposing the relicensing of Massachusetts’ Pilgrim nuclear plant ended with the arrest of 14 activists who walked through the gate attempting to deliver a letter to a plant vice president. About 30 people gathered on the plant’s access road Sunday afternoon, the Plymouth Daily News...

Contract negotiations between Entergy and the union representing workers at the Pilgrim nuclear plant reached an impasse Wednesday, with the company sending almost half the plant’s workforce home and workers picketing in response. The previous contract with members of the Utility Workers Union...

The union that represents more than 400 workers at the Pilgrim nuclear plant in Plymouth has scheduled a vote this week on whether to authorize leadership to call a strike. The Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA) says contract negotiations with the Entergy-owned plant have stalled over health...

Six years after it received Entergy’s application to renew the operating license of the Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts, the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has recommended that the reactor be allowed to operate for an additional two decades. “The staff determined that Entergy...

Massachusetts’ Pilgrim nuclear plant powered back up over the weekend after a leaking valve in its pressure relief system prompted a shutdown last week. Early on Dec. 26 operators manually shut down the reactor from full power after suspected leakage across the first stage of a safety release valve...

L-3 MAPPS announced today that it is has been awarded a contract from Entergy Nuclear to upgrade the existing Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (PNPS) full scope simulator and to equip the plant with an additional classroom simulator. The project is effective immediately, and the upgraded simulator is scheduled...

With 14 applications pending, the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday that a shortage of manpower at the agency may delay nuclear plant license renewals. Citing “resource limitations,” Gregory Jaczko warned it may take longer than expected to handle applications to extend...

The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board has refused to suspend the relicensing of a Massachusetts nuclear plant following a contention by the state attorney general that the Fukushima Daiichi accident called for a delay. The ASLB made its decision Monday, allowing the Pilgrim plant relicensing to continue...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has rejected efforts by environmental groups and the state of Massachusetts to stop licensing activities for more than 30 new and proposed reactors, as well as the Westinghouse AP1000 and GE-Hitachi ESBWR reactor designs. A memorandum and order released by...

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...

A May 10 reactor trip at the Pilgrim nuclear plant resulted in a special inspection from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency announced Monday. According to an NRC release, operators at the Plymouth, Mass., plant were bringing the reactor back online after a refueling outage when the...

"Today marks an unfortunate milestone for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the timeline for the reactor renewal process has now doubled without explanation, eclipsing 60 months with no end in sight for the Pilgrim and Vermont Yankee plants," said Congressman Upton - Edited By Chris Reed...

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...