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Canadian Regulators OK Restart at Port Hope Uranium Conversion Plant
Source: NewsThe Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission granted the country's only uranium conversion plant permission to restart Monday as regulators continue to investigate an emergency shutdown. On Jan.…
Wrong Turn Leads Driver to Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant Gate, Jail on Suspicion of DUI
Source: NewsPolice in Lacey, N.J., said a man picked the wrong part of town to drive through while under the influence Friday. At about 6 p.m., security…
Committee in UK Recommends Sellafield Cleanup Company Lose Contract Unless Performance Improves
Source: NewsA parliamentary report published Tuesday took the management of the UK's Sellafield site to task for rising costs and missed milestones, recommending that its cleanup contractor…
Nuclear Upgrades: Steam Generator Replacement Begins at Davis-Besse While NRC Approves Uprates at 5 Other Midwest Reactors
Source: NewsFirstEnergy has begun a $600 million steam generator replacement at its Davis-Besse nuclear plant in Ohio. While elsewhere in the Midwest, federal regulators have approved uprates…
Ruling Government Will Not Support Power Price Guarantee for Czech Nuclear Project
Source: NewsCzech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has said his government will not approve a power price guarantee for electricity generated by two new reactors planned at the…
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Source: NewsAn order to cut worker doses at Fukushima Daiichi unit 4 and a request to release plant groundwater into the sea highlighted the news from Japan…
Workers Released from Hospital, WIPP Waste Site Safe After Truck Fire
Source: NewsThe Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico has temporarily stopped accepting waste but remained secure following a fire underground. At about 11 a.m., Wednesday, a…
Cameco Uranium Conversion Plant Shut Down While Regulators Investigate Incident
Source: NewsCanada's sole uranium conversion plant is offline pending an investigation by regulators into an unplanned shutdown last week. Cameco, which owns the Port Hope Conversion Facility,…
Worker Dies on Refueling Floor of Cooper Nuclear Plant, Natural Causes Suspected
Source: NewsPolice and the Nebraska Public Power District are investigating the death of a worker at the Cooper nuclear plant Tuesday, although the circumstances suggest he died…
NS Book Review: ATOMIC ACCIDENTS: A HISTORY OF NUCLEAR MELTDOWNS AND DISASTERS FROM THE OZARK MOUNTAINS TO FUKUSHIMA By James Mahaffey
Source: NewsAlthough Coach Friel was talking about endurance athletes, his words can be applied to many of life's situations, including those involving accidents with nuclear material, devices…
Unusual Event Declared After Smoke Fills Battery Room at Brunswick Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsSmoke restricted access to a battery room at unit 1 of North Carolina's Brunswick nuclear plant Monday, prompting operators to issue an unusual event declaration. Just…
Westinghouse Shifts Resources from Small Modular Reactors to AP1000
Source: NewsSaying he does not see a large enough market materializing for the technology in the near future, the CEO of Westinghouse announced the company has shifted…
Duke Energy Offers to Buy Out Co-Owner of the Brunswick and Harris Nuclear Plants
Source: NewsDuke Energy has begun negotiating with the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency to purchase the agency's minority stake in two nuclear plants. The NCEMPA owns…
TVA Resolves Red NRC Finding at Browns Ferry 1
Source: NewsThe Tennessee Valley Authority has met the requirements imposed by federal regulators after a residual heat removal system pump was found to be inoperable in 2010.…
Salem, Millstone Reactors Taken Offline Friday
Source: NewsMechanical problems took two reactors in the Northeast offline Friday. At the Salem plant in New Jersey, operators took unit 2 offline at 10:01 a.m. when…
Inspection Reveals Flaws in Palisades CRDM Housings, No Leaks Found
Source: NewsInspections during a refueling outage have turned up flaws in the housing of control rod drive mechanisms at the Palisades nuclear plant. They were not through-wall,…
Southern Co. Moves Forward with Vogtle Loan Guarantee
Source: NewsSouthern Co. announced Wednesday that it has filed the paperwork for a loan guarantee that's been under negotiation since 2010 for new reactors at Plant Vogtle.…
Nuclear Waste Specialist Kurion Acquires Vista Engineering Technologies
Source: NewsKurion will effectively triple its staff with the acquisition of Richland, Wash.-based Vista Engineering Services announced Wednesday. California-based Kurion develops technologies to vitrify nuclear waste. It…
Winter Storm Shuts Down Savannah River Site, Challenges Utilities
Source: NewsThe Department of Energy's Savannah River Site in South Carolina sent workers home Tuesday on account of a rare winter storm that also had utilities across…
Santee Cooper Sells 5 Percent of New V.C. Summer Reactors to SCE&G as Duke Takes a Pass
Source: NewsAfter two years of negotiations with Duke Energy to sell a share of two reactors under construction at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant, Santee Cooper announced…