Feds seek comments on Talen’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant license transfer Federal regulators are seeking comment on Talen Energy Corp.’s plan to transfer the license of the Susquehanna nuclear power plant. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Neil Sheehan said the agency published a notice in Tuesday’s Federal Register regarding the transfer of the Susquehanna license to … Continue reading Feds seek comments on Talen’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant license transfer →

Russia starts work on Arctic dock for 1st-ever floating nuclear power plant he world’s first floating nuclear power plant is set to start producing power and heat in 2019. While the plant is already being tested, construction of the dock has begun on the Arctic coast in Russia’s Far East. The construction works on the … Continue reading Russia starts work on Arctic dock for 1st-ever floating nuclear power plant →

Miniature nuclear power stations available within decade In less than a decade remote villages may be able to purchase their own miniature nuclear power plants to secure reliable carbon-free electricity or complement renewable installations. There has been a lot of talk lately about small modular reactors (SMR’s), small-scale versions of pressurised water reactors, the most … Continue reading Miniature nuclear power stations available within decade →

50 years after ‘we almost lost Detroit,’ America’s nuclear power industry faces even graver doubts The history of nuclear power in the United States has been marked by numerous milestones, many of them bad — accidents, construction snafus, engineering incompetence, etc., etc. One anniversary of an incident that has cast a long shadow over the … Continue reading 50 years after ‘we almost lost Detroit,’ America’s nuclear power industry faces even graver doubts →

Nuclear power in the US: Not what it once was In June, Exelon Corp. announced that it was retiring two of its most reliable nuclear units, in Clinton and Quad Cities, Illinois, US. This adds to a growing trend of nuclear asset closures throughout the Midwestern and Northeastern US due to declining profitability – the … Continue reading Nuclear power in the US: Not what it once was →

Can Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel Solve Our Energy Problems? Nuclear power, always controversial, has been under an especially dark cloud since Japan’s Fukushima disaster five years ago. And in the United States, few new nuclear plants have been ordered since the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, thanks to ongoing safety concerns, … Continue reading Can Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel Solve Our Energy Problems? →