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Wolf Creek Nuclear Plant Owners Sue Vendor Over Outage Last Year
Source: NewsThe owners of the Wolf Creek nuclear plant have taken one of its vendors to court over electrical work that preceded an unplanned reactor shutdown and…
Finland's Loviisa Nuclear Plant Adds Air Cooling Towers to Safety Systems
Source: NewsA nuclear plant in Finland plans to build an additional safety system that can cool its reactors and spent fuel pools in the event they lose…
Reactor at Bruce A Refuels After Record-Breaking Run, Bringing All Four Units Online for First Time in Decades
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsCanada'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…
Refueling, Turbine Repairs for Susquehanna Reactor
Source: NewsUnit 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…
Prominent UK Politician Highlights Importance of Hinkley Point Reactor Negotiations
Source: NewsAs 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…
Strong Performance Recorded Among U.S. Nuclear Plants in 2012
Source: NewsDespite 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…
Former Safety Manager Sentenced to More Than Six Years for Fraud at TVA Nuclear Plants
Source: NewsOn 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…
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Source: NewsLeaking 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…
GAO Advises Study of Evacuations Outside Nuclear Plants' 10-Mile Planning Zones
Source: NewsA 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…
Proposed Budget Reduces Funding for SRS MOX Plant
Source: NewsIn 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…
Industry Disputes Former NRC Chairman's Assertion That U.S. Nuclear Plants Are Unsafe
Source: NewsThe 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…
Iran Says Power Reactor Undamaged in Earthquake
Source: NewsA 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.
NRC Sends Inspectors to Arkansas Nuclear Plant Following Industrial Accident
Source: NewsFederal regulators have ordered an investigation at Arkansas Nuclear One, where a falling generator stator caused a fatal accident last week.
NNSA Helps Czech Republic Ship Last of Its Highly Enriched Uranium to Russia
Source: NewsThe 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…
Summer Nuclear Plant Back Online After Pump Seal Repairs
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsThe V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant in South Carolina exited a mid-cycle outage last week after repairs to back-up pump seals.
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Source: NewsWorkers 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…
Turkey Close to Selecting Bidder for New Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsTurkey'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…
Board Raises Safety, Design Concerns With Hanford Waste Facilities
Source: NewsIn 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…
Leading NASA Climate Scientists: Nuclear Plants Worldwide Have Prevented 1.84 Million Air Pollution-Related Deaths
Source: NewsLeading 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…
Falling 500-Ton Stator at Arkansas Nuclear Plant Kills One, Injures Eight and Trips Reactor
Source: NewsDetails 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…