Dominion Energy Virginia is appealing to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a 20-year renewal of the license for its twin-reactor power station in Louisa County, Virginia.
This marks the second 20-year license extension for which the company has appealed, this one being for its North Anna... Read More »
BALTIMORE — The need for traditional sources of baseload electricity remained a controversial topic during a Nov. 14 panel discussion at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) annual meeting held here.
The issue revolves around the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DO... Read More »
Investments would be made to modernize Department of Energy (DOE) user facilities that support more than 30,000 researchers around the world each year under three bills that a House committee approved on Wednesday.
The House Science, Space and Technology Committee approved the Department of Ener... Read More »
The Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) Facility, which tests nuclear reactor fuels and materials, has been restored to operation by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for the first time since its closure in 1994.
It was restored to operation after passing inspection and... Read More »
Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) declared a “Notification of Unusual Event” (NOUE) Tuesday at its Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville, Nebraska due to a hydrogen leak into a main plant area.
A maintenance crew working on the non-nuclear system discovered the leak. NPPD responded to t... Read More »
The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) recently filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, urging the court to uphold Illinois’ zero-emissions credit (ZEC) program, which pays nuclear facilities for their environmental attributes.
“ZEC programs represent one me... Read More »
EIA’s International Energy Outlook 2017 (IEO2017) forecasts that global nuclear capacity will increase at an average annual rate of 1.6 percent from 2016 through 2040, led primarily by countries outside of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
China will continue le... Read More »
A roundtable discussion of industry experts on how to address the widening skills gap in the nuclear sector caused by the retirement of an aging workforce is scheduled to be held at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) annual International Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Ara... Read More »
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) was among six energy organizations that sent a letter Tuesday to Congressional leaders urging them to adequately fund the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Waste Program for fiscal year 2018.
The letter, which was sent to both U... Read More »
A new program known as Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration (MEITNER) has been allotted $20 million by the Department of Energy (DOE) to seek out designs for cheaper, safer nuclear reactors.
Presently, while nuclear power comprises almost 20 percent of U.S. el... Read More »