Nuclear Power Industry News

Canada's Bruce Power recently celebrated two milestones at its Bruce A nuclear plant in Ontario. First, unit 4 broke a record, with 570 continuous days in operation before its recent service outage. And second, its restart last week brought all four reactors at Bruce A online following an extensive refurbishment program.

Unit 2 at Pennsylvania's Susquehanna nuclear plant shut down for refueling and maintenance Saturday, including repairs to turbines that have caused issues at the plant since its last refueling outage.

As the British government and EDF push back another target date for completing negotiations over new reactor construction at Hinkley Point, a prominent former politician has argued that the outcome will have far-reaching consequences for both nuclear power and energy policy in the UK.

Despite extended outages at four reactors, American nuclear plants logged a median capacity factor of 91.2 percent in 2012, not far from the 2005 record high of 92 percent, according to data recently compiled by international nuclear power organizations.

On Thursday, a federal judge sentenced a Tennessee Valley Authority contractor to six and a half years in prison for falsifying safety reports during work at TVA nuclear plants.

Leaking underground storage tanks, an encouraging study on internal radiation doses near the plant and another power outage at a spent fuel pool highlighted the last week's news from Japan. Developments at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant severely damaged after Japan's 2011 tsunami include ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority's project to complete the second reactor at the Watts Bar nuclear plant remains on track to be finished by December of 2015 at a cost of $4 billion to $4.5 billion.

A Government Accountability Office study released Wednesday suggested that the government should consider a larger geographic area when forecasting the number of evacuations during an emergency at a nuclear plant.

In a budget proposal Wednesday, the Obama administration said it will explore alternatives to the Savannah River Site's MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility and proposed a $133 million cut to the project's budget.

The former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has again provoked the indignation of the industry he used to regulate by asserting that fundamental safety flaws make U.S. power reactors unfit for relicensing.

A deadly earthquake in southwest Iran has not damaged the country's sole commercial nuclear plant, according to an Iranian report to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Federal regulators have ordered an investigation at Arkansas Nuclear One, where a falling generator stator caused a fatal accident last week.

The United States and Russia have helped move the final shipment of highly enriched uranium from a research reactor in the Czech Republic, representing the last of the material in the country that could be used in a nuclear weapon.

A graduate student at Oregon State University recently patented a concept for using gamma rays from spent nuclear fuel to sterilize medical equipment and other products.

The V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant in South Carolina exited a mid-cycle outage last week after repairs to back-up pump seals.

Workers at Fukushima Daiichi have begun building an underground structure to block contaminated groundwater from reaching the ocean, while a recent power outage has resulted in temporary pay cuts for Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives. Developments in the last week related to the nuclear plant blacked out following Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami include ...

Turkey's energy minister denied a recent report in Japanese media that the country had selected Areva and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build a 5,000 megawatt nuclear plant at Sinop.

An electrical accident in the switchyard of a Missouri nuclear plant sent three workers to the hospital Tuesday.

In a letter to a senator likely to bring enhanced political scrutiny to the Department of Energy, a federal panel has reiterated several concerns it lodged with the DOE over its partially built vitrification plant and waste storage at the Hanford site.

This year, Florida Power and Light will complete uprates that will add 500 megawatts of generating capacity to its nuclear fleet. The NextEra subsidiary recently produced this video touching on the plant improvements and the nuclear cost recovery funds used to finance them. It also shows work on steam turbines and other equipment at FPL's Turkey Point plant near Miami, as well as a conceptual drawing...

Leading climate scientists, including the outgoing head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, recently published a paper asserting that nuclear power has the potential to prevent millions of pollution-related deaths and is a superior tool for fighting climate change compared to natural gas.

Details continue to emerge on an industrial accident that killed a worker at Arkansas Nuclear One and cut off-site power to a reactor at the plant on Sunday.

Southern California Edison is moving quickly in its effort to modify a license at its San Onofre nuclear plant and restart unit 2 at reduced power before the high-demand summer season.

Crews have lowered the top section of the containment vessel for one of the world's first Generation III AP1000 reactors at China's Haiyang nuclear plant.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has come down on the Tennessee Valley Authority for its program to document the quality of commercial parts ordered for its Watts Bar 2 completion project and other nuclear plants.