Surry update

NRC reports show Surry at 98% power on the 17th and 100% on the 18th and today; apparent then that the voltage regulator problem was fixed q...

Virginia at 50%

Apparently Surry 2 did not complete the restart after turbine generator voltage regulator problems surfaced, contradicting our earlier repor...

Susquehanna 1 shutdown

PR Newswire is reporting that Susquehanna 1 shut down today when a leak of river water began in the lower level of the turbine building. It...

NRC Chairman at Vermont Yankee

The Brattleboro Reformer has been doing a bang-up job of covering all angles of the Vermont Yankee stew that's brewing up in Vermont .. ...

Bechtel, B&W and small NSS

Bechtel, Babcock & Wilcox form a consortium to build small Nuclear Steam Supply systems; see this link . B&W was shopping a design ...

You've GOT to see this; Vt. Yankee

It appears by this article and others that the pro-nuclear Vermont Energy Partnership has been closed out of NRC meetings with concerned pa...

Surry 2 back up after brief shutdown

Surry 2 is back on line today after a brief outage that began Sunday night with discovery of a leak on the river side of one of the condense...

Vogtle 3 & 4 construction restart very soon

Bloomberg is reporting that the hiring paperwork omission that has held up construction work at the Vogtle site is cleared up and that cons...

Good news for once; an anniversary!

Catawba Nuclear Station just hit 25 years of operation, as reported by the Herald out of Rock Hill, S.C. The plant is owned and operated by...

Babcock & Wilcox to be independent

Today it was announced that McDermott Industries will indeed spin off B&W by issuance of new shares of B&W stock, one for each two s...

Temporary hitch at Vogtle

Apparently, a required screening form was omitted when new hires were made for work on what might become Vogtle 3 and 4; this resulted in th...

Duke Energy proposed Lee Nuclear Station

I happened upon this link while looking around at the great information that Duke has to offer online and I think it's a great thing th...

Oconee Visitor Center still operating!

Incredibly, the old Keowee-Toxaway Visitor Center built right by Oconee Nuclear Station is still open! Click on the photo and it should enl...

PNPF

Yes, I'm enjoying myself with BING maps. Here's a link showing the still in-place, SAFSTOR Piqua Nuclear Power Facility. This orga...

CVTR

Use of this link should give a view of the site of the old Carolinas-Virginia Tube Reactor which operated 1963-1967 and which has apparentl...

Northern States / NRC hearing

Some recent safety findings by NRC inspectors are to be discussed in public meeting on the 13th of July. This article details the meeting ...

India - nuclear energy expansion - Korea?

According to this very well written and concise article, India may be next in line for Korean nuclear plant construction. The article link...

Morocco wants in

The nation of Morocco expects that if all goes well it'll have nuclear energy on line in roughly 12 to 14 years, if this article is to ...

Saudi Arabia tosses in its hat

Reports are out today that Saudi Arabia will sign a deal with France for nuclear energy technology to both provide electricity and to provid...

Japan responds to contract losses

Several Japanese corporations have grouped together with funding from the Japanese government to develop a consortium whose purpose is the e...

Ghosts of Project Plowshare

Plowshare was the overall name given to US projects during the 60's and 70's that used nuclear devices (that's weapons, folks) t...

A further $9B in loans

Calvert Cliffs, Summer and South Texas sites are on the list now for loans as noted in this article which I now link here for completeness. ...

Pay attention, because they mean it

Did everyone notice how the South Koreans made the decision some years back to enter the US automobile market? They did it; Hyundai is now ...

If I have to do it, well...

All right. Normally I don't pay attention to news reports about nuclear energy in foreign countries, but this one's worth looking a...

Well, get Babcock & Wilcox to do it then!

This article complains strenuously about foreign-made components being included in all of the presently planned new-construction nuclear pl...

LaSalle tritium in groundwater

It seems that tritium has been detected in samples of groundwater around LaSalle County Generating Station. Exelon, owner of the site (LaSa...

Calvert Cliffs 3?

The initial moves to get a third plant at the Calvert Cliffs site are underway. This article indicates that loan guarantees are being soug...

Utah nuclear / Green River site

It looks like another early but important step in Utah getting a nuclear plant built has been taken. This article describes the funding ar...

Anti-nuke without a clue

This article on an admittedly liberal "news" site is just irritating. However, this is just one brand of stupidity we face. The...

Yucca Mountain on again

At least two sources are now reporting that the NRC has effectively told the DoE that it isn't a policy-making entity and that it cannot...

Idaho: Second atomic plant

It looks like another nuclear plant may be built in Idaho, which until recently didn't have plans for even one (outside of the long hist...