Nuclear Power Industry News

Since its airing at the Sundance Film Festival, a new documentary by Robert Stone has raised a contentious question among environmentalists: If global warming poses the greatest environmental threat of our time, shouldn't we make use of existing nuclear technologies that can meet growing global energy demand without greenhouse gas emissions? The film, structured around environmentalists who've...

After generating 148 million megawatt-hours during nearly four decades in service, operators disconnected Wisconsin's Kewaunee nuclear plant from the Midwestern grid at 11 a.m. Tuesday.

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.

India's largest nuclear power project has cleared yet another hurdle toward full operation with a Supreme Court decision issued Monday.

L-3 MAPPS announced today that it has won an upgrade contract from Daya Bay Nuclear Power Operations and Management Co., Ltd. (DNMC) to equip the Ling Ao Phase II full scope simulator with a severe accident simulation model to enhance training scenarios that simulate degraded reactor core conditions. The project, which underscores L-3 MAPPS’ continued commitment to DNMC, will commence immediately...

On Friday, the prime ministers of Japan and Turkey announced a contract to build Turkey's second nuclear plant at Sinop.

Someone managed to sneak two goldfish into a secure area of the Perry Nuclear Plant, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Thursday, but neither FirstEnergy nor the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found it very funny.

Further scrutiny of isolation condensers at Fukushima Daiichi and another year of big losses for nuclear utilities highlighted the news from Japan this week. Recent developments related to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. reactors blacked out by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami include ...

Duke Energy will no longer pursue licensing for two new reactors at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant near Raleigh, N.C., the company announced Thursday.

The staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined that foreign ownership could keep Nuclear Innovation North America from pursuing a license for new reactors at the South Texas Project.

Wisconsin's Kewaunee nuclear plant may be shutting down next week, but its operator still faces a potential fine announced Tuesday for fire training conducted between 2009 and 2011.

NuScale Power recently unveiled passive safety concepts within its small modular reactor design that will allow the unit to safely cool itself under plant blackout conditions. Jose Reyes, NuScale's chief technology officer, offered this overview of the system at the Nuclear Energy Insider SMR Conference in Columbia, S.C.

Fluor will continue to provide operations and maintenance services at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant under a new contract extension.

Babcock & Wilcox may get another chance to continue its oversight of two National Nuclear Security Administration sites after the Government Accountability Office sustained the company's appeal of an earlier NNSA contracting decision.

On Monday, Entergy announced that Arkansas Nuclear One's unit 2 reactor reentered service over the weekend after a cascade of incidents March 31 that involved the death of a worker.

Areva executives recently signed a letter of intent with China National Nuclear Corp. to build a nuclear fuel recycling facility in China.

Two companies recently announced large orders for spent fuel monitoring equipment following new requirements implemented by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in response to the Fukushima Daiichi accidents.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has announced its selection by Dominion Virginia Power as its new technology partner for the North Anna Unit Three (NA-3) Nuclear Power Plant Project. The project development agreement includes engineering work to support the development of the specific Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) design for NA-3 and licensing support work for the utility’s...

More rodent-related problems and the possibility of a fall restart for idled reactors were among the developments of note this week at Fukushima Daiichi. Recent news related to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant blacked out following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami included ...

Legislation proposed in the Senate Thursday would enact many of the policies outlined by the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, setting the stage for interim spent nuclear fuel storage sites.

As part of life cycle management, Xcel Energy is replacing the steam generators on unit 2 at the Prairie Island nuclear generating facility near Red Wing, MN. The generators are scheduled to be replaced during the site’s fall 2013 refueling outage. The generators left France January 31 and traveled to the Mediterranean Sea and were off-loaded to an ocean vessel and shipped to New Orleans. Once...

L-3 MAPPS announced today that the Embalse full scope simulator it developed for Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A. (NA-SA) was put into service on March 22, 2013 at the Embalse nuclear power station on the southern shore of a reservoir on the Rio Tercero, near the city of Embalse in Córdoba Province, Argentina. L-3 MAPPS and NA-SA gathered in Córdoba today to celebrate this significant...

A Japanese newspaper has reported that Turkey and the Areva-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries consortium Atmea plan to build four reactors at the country's Sinop plant.

Unit 2 at the South Texas Project returned to full power Tuesday following the replacement of a transformer destroyed by a fire Jan. 8.

Federal officials will hold a conference with South Carolina Electric & Gas next week to address questions surrounding rebar in the foundations of new reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant.