Sen. Ben Nelson
For more than a third of a century, Nebraska has been a leader in nuclear production and can serve as a model in addressing our Nation’s energy and environmental needs. While our state only has two nuclear plants — Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station north of Omaha and Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville — [...]
By David Ehrlich - Earth2Tech
The idea of nuclear-in-a-box sounds like a joke, but investors and potential customers are taking Hyperion Power Generation very seriously — the company is valued at a whopping $100 million by investors, according to the Denver Post. The company is backed by Altira Group, and though Hyperion hasn’t disclosed [...]
MICHIGAN is in the grip of a ferocious recession now, but the state’s energy providers are betting that, sooner or later, the economy will improve and the state’s demand for electric power will increase.
Building generating plants takes years, and various utilities have filed permit requests to construct five new coal-fired facilities, with three more requests [...]
WASHINGTON — The discovery of water flowing across the floor of a building at the Indian Point 2 nuclear plant in Buchanan, N.Y., traced to a leak in a buried pipe, is stirring concern about the plant’s underground pipes and those of other aging reactors across the country.
A one-and-a-half-inch hole caused by corrosion allowed about [...]
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as part of a “long-term” comprehensive study of its radioactive waste classification system, will consider reclassifying depleted uranium as high-level waste. Meanwhile, it will develop site-specific disposal criteria to help determine which landfills can safely accept large quantities of the radioactive material — 11 tons or more.
File that under [...]
LANSING - It’s easy to recognize Fermi 2’s distinctive cooling towers rising over Newport. The nuclear power plant’s hyperbolic-shaped towers have puffed water vapor along the shore of Lake Erie since 1988.
The DTE Energy-owned facility is the newest of Michigan’s three nuclear plants. The Cook Nuclear Plant in Bridgman opened in 1975 and Palisades Power [...]
JACKSON, Miss., March 23, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ —-Thirty years ago, the United States experienced the worst nuclear plant accident in American history. Since that time, increased vigilance in safety has made the nation’s 104 nuclear plants - including the 12 reactors operated by Entergy Nuclear - an even stronger and safer form of energy [...]
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s decision classifying depleted uranium as the least hazardous type of radioactive material is “unsupportable,” the chairman of the House Environment and Energy Subcommittee said yesterday.
Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and subcommittee member Jim Matheson (D-Utah) told the NRC in a letter (pdf): “The arbitrary and capricious mischaracterization of depleted uranium as Class [...]
Environmental groups throughout Texas are lining up to oppose the South Texas Nuclear Operating Co.’s plans to build two additional reactors at its plant near Bay City, Texas.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has filed notice in the Federal Register giving citizens the ability to challenge the proposed reactors. Groups have 60 days to oppose the proposed [...]
By MARTHA RAFFAELE
Associated Press Writer
HARRISBURG — Federal regulators proposed a $65,000 fine Tuesday against the owner of a Pennsylvania nuclear plant where security guards routinely napped on the job.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced the fine against Chicago-based Exelon Nuclear after completing a special investigation of the Peach Bottom plant in south-central Pennsylvania.
Multiple guards were “deliberately [...]
