09/04/2010 IP 2 unexpected shutdown unlikely to be safety issue
High water levels in a steam generator unexpectedly shut down one of two reactors at the Indian Point nuclear power plant during a planned maintenance Friday. Federal regulators said the 11 a.m. incident, which came as plant workers were powering down Indian Point 2 to repair a reactor coolant pump, was "not a significant issue in terms of safety."
www.poughkeepsiejournal.com
09/03/2010 Crack at Crystal River explained
Why did a 42-inch-thick wall at that nuclear plant separate into two layers during a big maintenance project last fall? Other nuclear plants have done similar jobs 26 times around the country, but no one ever saw a crack like Crystal River's — a crack that has kept the plant off-line for 11 months and piled up nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in outage costs.
www.tampabay.com
09/03/2010 NRC says SONGS worker performance problems grow
Government regulators say San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station has fallen further behind in identifying and solving problems involving the safety culture at the plant, despite previous assurances from top managers. A letter sent by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Southern California Edison spells out the concerns, which will be discussed in a public meeting Sept. 16 at a Dana Point hotel.
www.nctimes.com
09/02/2010 EnergySolutions Commences Decommissioning of Zion
EnergySolutions, Inc. announced today it has officially closed its agreement with Exelon Nuclear to begin accelerated decommissioning of the Zion Station. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses have been transferred to ZionSolutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of EnergySolutions, for the purposes of decommissioning.
www.marketwatch.com
09/02/2010 USEC, Toshiba and B&W Close on First Phase of Strategic Investment
In May 2010, USEC announced that Toshiba Corporation and Babcock & Wilcox Investment Company, an affiliate of The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), signed a definitive agreement to make a $200 million investment in USEC over three phases. Phase one closed today.
www.marketwatch.com
09/01/2010 Entergy says blown fuses problem still a mystery
The source of what caused seven fuses to fail and darken two panels of warning lights in the control room of Vermont Yankee on Sunday night remains a mystery. The blown fuses prompted the nuclear plant to declare a low-level emergency, which last 90 minutes until the fuses were replaced.
www.timesargus.com
09/01/2010 NRC approves license transfer for Zion decommissioning
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has finalized the transfer of the possession license for the Zion Nuclear Power Station in Illinois from Exelon Generating Co. LLC to ZionSolutions LLC effective Sept. 1.
www.powergenworldwide.com
08/31/2010 Former LANL Employee Sentenced for Stealing Irradiated Gold
Earlier today, Alex Maestas, 46, a former employee of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque, New Mexico to a one-year term of imprisonment to be followed by three years’ supervised release by Senior United States District Judge C. LeRoy Hansen for stealing a two ounce piece of gold, valued at approximately $2,000, from a LANL processing facility.
albuquerque.fbi.gov
08/30/2010 FirstEnergy Seeks To Renew Davis-Besse Nuclear-Plant License
FirstEnergy Corp. said it has applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for renewal of its license to operate the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, one of the most trouble-prone nuclear-power plants in the country. The 908-megawatt facility near Toledo is licensed to operate until 2017. The renewal would extend operations another 20 years.
www.nasdaq.com
08/26/2010 Prep work nearly done to clean up Hanford 618-10
Work is nearly complete to identify the type and amount of radioactive and hazardous materials at the 618-10 Burial Ground, one of the most hazardous sites on the Hanford nuclear reservation.
www.tri-cityherald.com
08/25/2010 EnergySolutions Announces Quarterly Dividend
EnergySolutions, Inc. Board of Directors have declared a quarterly dividend of $0.025 per share that will be paid on September 10, 2010, to stockholders of record on September 3, 2010.
www.marketwatch.com
08/24/2010 Zion Decommissioning News
EnergySolutions will become the owner and NRC license holder of the shut down Zion Power Station and will also take full control of the associated decommissioning trust funds associated with the Zion station. This is roughly a $1 Billion dollar project that will be performed over a 10 year period. The anticipated date to officially transfer the license and commence the project is September 1, 2010.
www.energysolutions.com
08/24/2010 China in Talks Over South African Nuclear Plant
China National Nuclear Corp. is in talks over building a nuclear power plant in South Africa, a CNNC official said Tuesday, in the latest sign that China is gearing up to export nuclear technology at the same time as it rapidly expands its domestic reactor fleet.
www.foxbusiness.com
08/24/2010 $21 million of contracts awarded at SRS
The Savannah River Site's (SRS) liquid waste contractor has awarded more than $21 million in contracts to move high-level liquid waste processing forward.
www.examiner.com
08/23/2010 DUF6 Conversion Project Celebration To Be Held
On September 9th the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and Uranium Disposition Services, LLC (UDS) will hold a celebration to mark the commencement of operations (Hot Functional Testing) for the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion facility in Piketon.
communitycommon.com
08/23/2010 Seabrook celebrates first two decades
As it wades into the approval process for a 20-year operating license extension, Seabrook Station marks 20 years providing nuclear fuel to the Seacoast and beyond. The nuclear energy plant, owned by NextEra Energy Resources, began operations on Aug. 19, 1990 -- the same day on which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission held two public hearings on the plant’s extension request.
news.bostonherald.com
08/23/2010 Sudan to build 1st nuclear plant
Sudan is planning to build a nuclear reactor and its first nuclear power plant for peaceful electricity purposes by 2020, state media say. Director-general of the Sudanese Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed Ahmed Hassan el-Tayeb, said on Sunday that his government had begun the plan for the development of the nuclear reactor at the beginning of this year.
www.presstv.ir
08/21/2010 Cambodia to build its first nuclear plant to meet power demand
Nikkei reported that, to address chronic power shortages that are becoming a serious problem for both general and industrial purposes, the Cambodian government has started looking at building its first nuclear plant. Mr. Ith Prang state secretary of Cambodian Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy said that Cambodia has begun discussing a plan to build a nuclear plant as early as 2020.
www.steelguru.com
08/20/2010 TVA to revive mothballed Bellefonte
The Tennessee Valley Authority plans to revive one of its unfinished nuclear reactors from the 1970s before pursuing the next generation of nuclear power. TVA directors will be asked today to spend $250 million in the next fiscal year for engineering and equipment work for the possible completion of the Unit 1 reactor at the Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant in Hollywood, Ala.
www.timesfreepress.com
08/20/2010 Group Wants DOE to Prepare EIS for Proposed Plutonium Facility
The Los Alamos Study Group recently filed a complaint against the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in federal District Court in Albuquerque, N.M., to halt further investment in a massive underground plutonium facility proposed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
eponline.com
