nuclear power

Supporters of Three Mile Island made a last-ditch plea to state lawmakers to save the financially troubled nuclear power plant, which is scheduled to close next year. Community and union leaders asked the nuclear energy caucus Tuesday for help. Those leaders said TMI should be awarded tax credits for ...

The Davis-Besse nuclear power plant is helping Ohio avoid more CO2 and other pollutants, argues Nuclear Matters, an advocacy group for the industry which has released an economic report arguing that allowing old nuclear plants to close because they cannot compete with new gas turbine plants and ...

Nuclear power plant safety primarily involves radiation detection and monitoring and it is seeing a sea change on account of the changing contours of nuclear power plants, homeland security, defense, and manufacturing industries. The different nuclear power plant safety measures are a combination of ...

Robert L. “Gunny” Gunther of Unity loved his work as an inspector of nuclear power plants during scheduled outages, and his job took him across many states, from Florida to Connecticut. “He was everywhere. He absolutely loved it. He was working up until age 70 and would have loved to continue,” in that ...

This is precisely why I have led the charge to keep the Perry Nuclear Power Plant open. To sit by and just watch it close, along with the economic calamity it would bring, would be irresponsible. My opposition to its closing is based both on my view that clean, nuclear energy should not be abandoned, and ...

Plans for a nuclear power station on the Welsh island of Anglesey have been delayed by concerns over the plant's impact on colonies of protected seabirds. The proposed twin reactors at Wylfa were given the green light by the UK's nuclear regulator in December, with backers hoping to win financial ...

It has nothing to do with the question of what to do with existing nuclear power plants. You do not have to like nuclear power, or ever want to build another nuclear power plant, to believe that existing sources of carbon-free power should be kept running as long as practicably possible. You only have to like ...

Abu Dhabi: The UAE's first of four nuclear power reactors at Barakah has been finally completed, after nine years in the making. Currently, the second reactor at the Barakah nuclear power plant project is 92 per cent complete, the third 81 per cent, and the fourth 61 per cent. The overall completion rate of ...

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and Moon Jea-In attend the Unit 1 completion celebration at Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant. WAM. Abu Dhabi - Musaed al-Zayani. UAE announced on Monday completing the construction of the first of four Barakah nuclear power reactors. Following this step, UAE has become ...

The foundation will be laid for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant next week, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said. Speaking in a parliamentary group meeting on March 27, Yıldırım said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin would attend the groundbreaking ...

The nuclear power plant at Cernavoda, Eastern Romania, closed one of its two reactors and reduced the output of the second one due to malfunctions on Sunday, March 25. Nuclearelectrica, the state company that operates the power plant, announced on Sunday morning that it had to close Unit 1 of the ...

Dark clouds are once again hovering over the planned construction of the Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power station in Britain, which has attracted much attention as the most ambitious nuclear power project in Europe. Despite the extraordinary high estimated costs of building the plant and generating ...

Protesters in Hungary floated a symbolic inflatable nuclear barrel down the river Danube in Budapest to highlight the problem of radioactive waste. The government is planning to build a Paks II new nuclear power plant but Greenpeace says the issue of waste is still unresolved. "Our organisation finds it ...

ABU DHABI, March 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in was set to visit the United Arab Emirates' first nuclear power plant Monday, highlighting the two countries' special relationship that began some nine years ago when Seoul won the multi-billion-dollar project to build four nuclear ...

SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is developing unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology to fly into the containment vessels of the damaged units at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station and assess conditions. Tokyo Electric Power ...

Alvin W Vogtle nuclear power plant (NPP) located in Waynesboro, Georgia, US, is undergoing an expansion, which will add two new units designated three and four. The two new units will be the first advanced Generation III+ reactors to be installed in the US and also the first new nuclear units to be built in 30 years in the ...

poster describing how eating one potassium-rich banana per week can expose a person to the same amount of radiation as can living near a nuclear power plant. Another colorful nuclear PSA, titled "Sometimes Being Dense is a Virtue," explains that a pound of uranium can generate 16,000 times more ...

The planned Akkuyu nuclear power plant has had its share of problems, but could become a lucrative strategic partnership between Russia and Turkey. ... The second groundbreaking ceremony for Turkey's first nuclear power plant is set for April, and this time officials hope to make it stick despite funding ...

SEABROOK — Local nonprofit C-10's right to intervene in a hearing on concrete degradation at the Seabrook nuclear power plant has been upheld by the presidentially appointed panel that oversees the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. C-10 was formed to protect public health and the environment within ...

Nuclear power plants that wish to participate in the program will have to be certified by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. In order to be eligible to be granted the ZECs, the board must determine that the nuclear power plant meets the objectives of the act. The ZECs are stated as being similar to ...