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The Perry nuclear power plant, 35 miles north of Cleveland, Ohio, has been restarted with the new fuel type that operators expect will mean mean fewer rod replacements in future refueling outages. By Monday morning, the plant was up to 96 percent power, local media reported. During the refueling shutdown...

Perry Nuclear Power Station operator FirstEnergy can go ahead with plans to use the hotter GNF2 fuel made by Global Nuclear Fuel, federal regulators said. In a letter dated 27 March 2015, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the fuel which has already been adopted by most reactors similar to...

The Perry nuclear power plant in North Perry, Ohio, was restarted Monday at noon after a week long shutdown, the Plain Dealer reported. The 1,260MW plant shut down a week ago during a routine maintenance operation in which engineers were switching feedwater pumps from one electrical circuit to another...

The Perry nuclear plant in Ohio issued an unusual event declaration Wednesday in response to a gas leak in an auxiliary building. According to a report filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Trichloroethylene leaked in the off-gas building at about 2 p.m. The building's basement and ground...

Day & Zimmermann (D&Z), the century-old, family-owned provider of construction & engineering, staffing, and defense solutions for leading corporations and governments around the world, announced today its Engineering, Construction & Maintenance group signed a multi-year contract renewal...

A coolant leak shut down an Ohio reactor last weekend, one month after an earlier refueling outage.

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.

The U.S. Coast Guard pulled three Ohio men from Lake Erie Tuesday after their disabled boat was pushed into a breakwater near the Perry nuclear plant. A Coast Guard news release cited by the News Herald newspaper said a rescue boat found the men just after 3 p.m. By that point, waves were pounding their disabled 28-foot boat into the rocks near the plant, located 35 miles northeast of Cleveland.

Construction began Wednesday on a new 12,000-square-foot emergency operations center at Ohio's Perry nuclear plant. FirstEnergy is building the center to locate emergency facilities for maintaining public health and safety in the event of a plant emergency. According to a FirstEnergy release, it will include state-of-the-art environmental monitoring and communications equipment. The center also will...

Peter P. Sena has been promoted to president and chief operating officer of FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp. Sena, who is currently senior vice president, FENOC Operations, will assume his new position following completion of the proposed merger of FirstEnergy and Allegheny Energy. FENOC operates the Beaver Valley Power Station in Shippingport, Pa.,...

Hartman joined the NRC in Region III as a reactor engineer in 2009, he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor’s of science degree in nuclear engineering - By Chris Smith - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has selected Thomas Hartman as the new Resident Inspector at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Perry, Ohio, roughly 35 miles northeast of Cleveland.