Fort Calhoun - Event Clear

All of the doomsayers --- you remember, all the folks who were blabbering around the internet that an accident was in progress at Fort Calho...

ANS Nuclear Cafe - Hurricane Irene update

The American Nuclear Society's blog, the ANS Nuclear Cafe, has a very good update on the situation regarding preparations for Hurricane ...

Hurricane Irene approaching Eastern U.S.

Probably no one at this point could do better than Brian Wheeler did at POWER ENGINEERING with the following article (link below) concerning...

Visible progress at Fukushima Daiichi

Up until now, the only evidence of the construction of the external enclosure for the No. 1 reactor building at Fukushima Daiichi in terms o...

ALERT at North Anna ended

Dominion has announced the end of the alert status at North Anna after having started one reactor coolant pump at each of the two nuclear pl...

US Nuclear Plant SITREP

Here I will provide, as completely as possible, the situation at the US nuclear plants affected by yesterday's earthquake. I should say ...

US Earthquake Update: 4:40 AM Wednesday

Offsite power at North Anna Station has been restored, according to the Wall Street Journal site. According to the report, the diesel genera...

TEPCO to modifiy cooling at No. 3 reactor

Tokyo Electric Power will be adding another route of feedwater to the reactor at No. 3 plant at the Fukushima Daiichi site, it has been repo...

More Virginia Earthquake information

At this moment, we do not have any actual operational details from the North Anna Power Station other than that which we have reported. Brie...

US Earthquake information

According to the wires, and good inside information, there was only one nuclear power plant affected by today's earthquake: North Anna ...

New TEPCO video at APR YouTube Channel

The best onsite TEPCO press release video yet made is now available on the APR YouTube Channel. We can only hope that TEPCO continues this ...

Nuclear Energy in Japan: August 17, 2011

We have a number of situational updates today concerning both the overall nuclear energy situation, such as it is, in Japan and the operatio...

The effect of big media: A real conversation

I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine that interestingly turned nuclear. She's married, mother of one beautiful nine month...

Nuclear Energy in Japan: August 10, 2011

We find ourselves at another noteworthy point in the recovery from the Fukushima Daiichi accident, although none of the media in Japan have ...

Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers at APR

64th CARNIVAL OF NUCLEAR BLOGGERS Atomic Power Review is proud to again host the rotating Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers. This feature appear...

Fukushima Daiichi update on high rad levels

As I had suspected and had indicated in the previous post, TEPCO has given us both a location map and robot video footage of just where the ...

Nuclear Energy in Japan: August 2, 2011

IMPORTANT FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI UPDATES.... HEADLINES FROM FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI - DETAILED REPORTING BELOW. -1000 R/hr reading on No. 1 / No. 2 exh...