Nuclear Power Industry News

A recently published study of 3,000 uranium processing workers in Port Hope, Canada, found their overall incidence of cancer was actually lower than that of the Canadian population at large.

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.

Areva announced Wednesday that regulators have approved the use of its Arcadia core simulator system in the U.S.

Operators will power down the Kewaunee nuclear plant for the last time on May 7.

Westinghouse announced an agreement Tuesday to help South Africa develop domestic fabrication of nuclear fuel.

The Department of Energy announced Monday that it is taking applications for the second portion of $452 million set aside for the development and licensing of small modular reactors.

At about 10 a.m., Monday, crews completed the basemat for the first new unit at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant – a milestone for the reactor that will be among the first to come on line in the U.S. since Watts Bar 1 opened in 1996.

On Friday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission made public a redacted version of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' root cause analysis on prematurely thinning tubes within steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear plant.

The owner of the nearby Fermi nuclear plant has donated $1 million toward the construction of a new Career Technology Center at a Monroe County, Mich., community college.

Monday will mark two years since the Japanese tsunami that triggered nuclear plant blackouts and a cascade of emergencies at Fukushima Daiichi. Tokyo Electric Power Co. has kept the three reactors that sustained core damage subcritical and at safe temperatures for more than a year. Nonetheless, the tasks of removing the plant's fuel and eventually decommissioning the site pose daily challenges...

Utility regulators have clarified that Utah's energy plans must consider the possibility of new nuclear power – a positive development for a company planning to build the first commercial reactor in the state.

As it confronts potential leaks in waste tanks at the Hanford site, the Department of Energy has proposed sending some of the material to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.

Yukiya Amano has been appointed to a second term as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency. If his appointment by the organization's board of governors is approved at the IAEA's general conference in September, his term will extend through November of 2017.

Despite a lengthened schedule , significant progress is evident at the construction site of two new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at Southern Co.'s Vogtle nuclear plant. The following photos, taken by Southern in January and February, show the project's recently started cooling tower, containment vessels, condensers, moisture separator reheaters and other components.

Sweeping federal budget cuts that took effect Friday have led the largest contractor at the Savannah River Site to announce cutbacks affecting thousands of employees in the coming weeks.

On Monday the president nominated a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and former member of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future to serve as the next secretary of energy.

Areva will move its U.S. headquarters from suburban Washington to Charlotte, N.C., while adding positions over the next four years.

After reporting its earnings Thursday, Duke Energy also announced it will appoint Dhiaa Jamil as president of Duke Energy Nuclear.

Two workers were killed and another seriously injured at the Cattenom nuclear plant in France Thursday.

Virginia’s Nuclear Energy Consortium (NEC), signed into law this week by Gov. McDonnell, intends to make the state a hub for research and development of safe and available nuclear power. The Consortium will build on Virginia’s already substantial nuclear facilities in higher education, nuclear reactor manufacturing, and nuclear engineering.

Japan's prime minister has announced that the country's reactors will be allowed to restart once they meet new safety standards. Meanwhile, a recent study by the World Health Organization concluded that health risks to the general public from the Fukushima Daiichi crisis are very low. Developments over the last week related to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. nuclear plant blacked out by Japan's...

Southern Co. has asked power regulators in Georgia for permission to increase the budget for its share of two new reactors under construction at Plant Vogtle.

A recent earnings report offered an updated tally of the costs at Southern California Edison's San Onofre nuclear plant, where two reactors have spent a year offline because of steam generator problems.

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.

Luminant operates two Westinghouse reactors at its Comanche Peak nuclear plant near Fort Worth. Hundreds of professionals keep the plant safely generating up to 2,300 megawatts for the Texas market, and the utility recently produced videos profiling a few of those people: Erin Fischer - Motor Component Specialist: