Nuclear
Nuclear power plant design, licensing, construction, operation and maintenance, refueling, and uprating.
A superconducting tokamak at the National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI) in South Korea has achieved a world record of more than 70 seconds in high-performance plasma operation. Researchers hailed the…
Uranium oxide, the basic fuel for nuclear power plants, has recently sold at prices not seen in the past 13 years. In fact, the price is less than the cost…
The board of French utility EDF has approved a compensation package for the closure of France's oldest nuclear reactor, the 39-year-old Fessenheim nuclear plant, but it delayed making a final…
A crane boom collapsed under heavy winds at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Japan, landing on the Unit 2 reactor building and fuel handling building at around 9:50 p.m.…
As part of its ongoing drive to exit competitive power markets, FirstEnergy Corp. said on January 23 that it has agreed to sell four natural gas–fired power plants in Pennsylvania…
The Trump administration will scrap executive actions to curb U.S. carbon pollution from power plants and other climate measures outlined in the Obama administration's landmark Climate Action Plan, according to…
As France’s grid operator Réseau de Transport d'Électricité (RTE) warned the public that they need to start taking measures to conserve energy as temperatures plummet or face rolling blackouts, the…
Although AREVA recently disclosed that 17 U.S. nuclear power plant units have installed components that were forged at the Le Creusot facility in France—a forge that has been under scrutiny…
Non-utility generators are pressing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to overturn state actions in New York and Illinois that the generators claim distort FERC’s wholesale electricity markets. On January…