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Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant’s Unit 2 reactor returned to full power at 4:09 a.m. CDT today after workers completed a scheduled maintenance and refueling outage. During the outage, which started Feb. 22, approximately 400 contractors joined with the plant’s 800 employees to complete maintenance tasks and replace one-third of the unit’s fuel. Workers also prepared Unit 2 for installation...

Areva announced it has completed outage work at the DC Cook plant with extremely low-dose (radiation) exposure during the planned spring outage, according to a Tuesday release. The AREVA team handling steam generator maintenance work on DC Cook Unit 2 as part of the recent outage successfully completed 22,991 inspections on four steam generators with zero safety issues and very low-dose exposure. “It was a great...

The Pilgrim nuclear power plant returned to service Saturday after an emergency shutdown on May 23. The plant was manually shut down when workers detected reduced air pressure in the facility’s condenser , according to spokesmen for the NRC and Entergy, the plant’s owner. It marked the plant’s third emergency shutdown in seven months. Over the weekend, Pilgrim also received a 20 year license extension...