TVA plan update

MarketWatch is now reporting the same thing we noticed and reported here a short while back - namely, that the Tennessee Valley Authority is...

Some Calvert Cliffs comments

By now, many of you have read the letter that Constellation Energy has sent to Electricite de France, both of whom are partners in UniStar, ...

B&W does get a Bellefonte contract after all

Just in here is the news that Babcock & Wilcox, original reactor vendor for the cancelled Bellefonte 1 & 2 reactor plants in Alabama...

Breaking 5:45 PM EDT Weds - EDF to go it alone?

Bloomberg is presently reporting that Electricite de France, or EDA, has responded to Constellation's having backed off plans to add a n...

TVA brief update

Nuclear Engineering International is reporting that the Tennessee Valley Authority's long term plan includes an increased focus on nucle...

Pilgrim: Tritium >limits again

We note briefly now that the groundwater sampling at Entergy's Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (General Electric BWR plant) near Plymouth,...

NRC Special Inspection: Robinson 2

No surprise to anyone with any smidgen of knowledge of the industry is the arrival of an NRC inspection team at Robinson-2 yesterday. This a...

Back to Bataan!

By following this link you'll see a very fascinating web page. As it happens, the Philippines began construction of a Westinghouse pres...

Funding issues for new plants...

Two recent announcements have put a little hitch in the nuclear renaissance. First, Constellation has halted further plans to add another nu...

Vermont Yankee debate continues

The matter of whether or not Vermont Yankee is allowed to extend its state-issued license (if you don't recall our post on this a while ...

Surry 1 & 2 uprate approved by NRC

The NRC has approved an uprate of the two Westinghouse PWR plants at Virginia Power & Light's Surry Nuclear Power Station. These pl...

Dominion will build, even if it isn't nuclear

This article in Business Week describes the indication by Dominion Resources that it needs to increase its base load generating capacity - ...

Looking back: Vallecitos

As I continue to follow the progress of the various projects here and abroad to advance nuclear energy, I can't help but wonder if we...

A good day for Westinghouse?

Another hurdle for Vogtle cleared; click here to read a brief AP piece reporting that a draft report issued by the NRC has vacated any envi...

FPL / Turkey Point 6 & 7 project funding

Rate increases have been approved for customers of Florida Power & Light, which is on track to acquire funds to construct two more gener...

PSEG Early Site Permit applied for

Five or six sources reported this afternoon (probably more now) that PSEG had filed with the NRC an application for an Early Site Permit to ...

GTS and SNPF

Perhaps one of the least remarked nuclear plants in the US was the plant of the Saxton Nuclear Experimental Corporation, labeled usually by ...

Susquhanna 1 back up

PR Newswire is reporting today that the river water problem at Susquehanna 1 is corrected and that the plant is back on line. Today's N...

Virginia at 50%

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

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 ...