Nuclear

Nuclear power plant design, licensing, construction, operation and maintenance, refueling, and uprating.


THE BIG PICTURE: Nuclear Financial Meltdown
THE BIG PICTURE: Nuclear Financial Meltdown

Cheap natural gas, stagnant power demand, and power prices that have fallen significantly since 2008 have jeopardized the economics of about two-thirds of the nation’s 100-GW nuclear capacity, according to…


Is Natural Gas Threatening Grid Reliability?
Is Natural Gas Threatening Grid Reliability?

If you’ve been paying attention to the power markets in recent years, you know that merchant coal and nuclear power plants are struggling to compete against natural gas-fired generation and…


POWER Digest (August 2017)
POWER Digest (August 2017)

Rosatom Gets Approval to Proceed with Turkish Reactors. Turkey’s energy watchdog EPDK in mid-June gave Russia’s state-owned nuclear entity Rosatom the green light to proceed with construction of the $20…