Plant Operations
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Exelon Generation Formally Integrates AmerGen Assets Into Exelon Nuclear
Source: NewsIntegration an important milestone By Stephen Heiser Exelon Generation today officially integrated the nuclear generation assets held by its AmerGen Energy Company LLC subsidiary into Exelon…
Harris License Extension Brings Long-Term Reliability to NCEMPA
Source: NewsNRC grants approval to 2046 By April Murelio The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed its review of the Harris Nuclear Plant License Renewal Application and…
Westinghouse, FirstEnergy Ink 10-year Alliance Contract
Source: NewsServices will range from large component replacements to support and spare parts By Stephen Heiser Westinghouse Electric Company has announced the signing of a comprehensive, 10-year…
Smoke alert at Tokai II
Source: World Nuclear NewsSmoke filled a room in a waste-processing facility at Tokai II nuclear power plant this morning. Engineers from Japan Atomic Power Company (Japco) are currently trying…
Fatality at Monticello site
Source: World Nuclear News[Xcel Energy, 17 September; US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 17 September] A contractor working at the Monticello nuclear power plant in Minnesota was fatally injured when equipment…
STP spared brunt of Hurricane Ike
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe South Texas Project (STP) nuclear power plant continued to operate safely and reliably throughout Hurricane Ike, STP Nuclear Operating Co announced. The company said that…
Chubu to sue Hitachi for replacement fuel costs
Source: World Nuclear NewsJapan's Chubu Electric Power Co will file a lawsuit against Hitachi, seeking compensation for fuel costs after problems with a Hitachi-made turbine forced the shutdown of…
Entergy prepares for Gustav
Source: World Nuclear NewsUS utility Entergy said it was monitoring Hurricane Gustav and making preparations for the storm, which is to make landfall in Louisiana today. As a precaution…
Medical community eyes reactor shutdowns
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe operating schedules of five research reactors have caused a certain amount of alarm in the nuclear medicine community. It was about nine months ago that…
Spanish reactors hit by series of incidents
Source: World Nuclear News[Reuters, 26 August] Spain's nuclear safety regulator, the Nuclear Safety Council (Consejo De Seguridad Nuclear, CSN) has called for a meeting of the country's nuclear power…
Tricastin pauses for alarm
Source: World Nuclear NewsRefuelling and maintenance work is to restart at Tricastin 4 this afternoon, following a radiation alarm yesterday morning. Workers in and around unit 4 were sent…
OECD nuclear generation dips in 2007
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: World Nuclear NewsNuclear power plants provided 21.6% of the electricity generated in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries in 2007, compared with 22.9% in 2006, according…
Lithuania plans referendum on Ignalina closure
Source: World Nuclear News[Reuters, 15 July] Lithuania's parliament has voted to hold a referendum on whether to extend the operating life of the Soviet-designed Ignalina nuclear power plant, despite…
Kola 1 licensed to operate until 2018
Source: World Nuclear NewsRussia's nuclear regulator, Rostekhnadzor, has issued a licence to Rosenergoatom for the extended operation of unit one of the Kola nuclear power plant. The licence is…
Davis-Besse and Cooper uprates approved
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved modest power uprates at two nuclear power plants. FirstEnergy's Davis-Besse pressurized water reactor in Ohio will increase its…
Comanche Peak to increase output
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a request to increase the generating capacity of units 1 and 2 of the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant…
Safety authority asks for steam generator measures
Source: World Nuclear NewsElectricité de France has been given until 30 September to implement preventative safety measures in steam generators at its French nuclear reactors including plugging tubes affected…
BE performance, earnings down
Source: World Nuclear NewsTechnical problems at some of its nuclear reactors resulted in lower output and earnings for British Energy during the 2007-2008 financial year, despite overall operational improvements.…
Areva wins €45 million contract with Eletronuclear
Source: World Nuclear NewsAreva has been awarded six contracts to provide key services to Eletronuclear, the Brazilian operator of the Angra nuclear power plant. Worth €45 million ($69 million),…
Reactors operating normally after Iwate earthquake
Source: World Nuclear NewsThree nuclear power plants are operating normally after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in the prefecture of Iwate, northern Japan. The Onagawa and Higashidori nuclear plants were…