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18 Apr 2011, 6:00 am by Steven Gillard
Following the nuclear crisis in Japan, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced that, even though its six nuclear power plants are not in earthquake-prone areas, it may invest significantly in making them less vulnerable to “natural and man-made disasters. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 6:41 am by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
That tax was only collected when the nuclear plants actually were working. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 5:44 am
Oh, that safe, clean, cheap nuclear power. [read post]
31 May 2019, 8:26 am by Megan Geuss
(credit: David Maxwell/Bloomberg via Getty Images) This week, lawmakers in Ohio's House of Representatives voted 53-43 in favor of a controversial bill that would permit a consumer-funded subsidy for nuclear plants and possibly for ailing coal plants as well. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 4:40 pm by Joe Consumer
Supreme Court case that ruled a state has no authority over a nuclear power plant relicensing. [read post]
25 May 2012, 7:19 am by Glenn Reynolds
The Nuclear Regulatory Agency does not just regulate nuclear power plants; it is also responsible for regulating uranium and thorium mining, a substantial portion of nuclear medicine, and use of radioactive sources in a wide variety of industries.” Well, to be fair, the President was a professor (well, lecturer), author and activist, and he’s managing a much larger enterprise. [read post]
1 Aug 2011, 1:44 pm by WIMS
In the weeks of intense media coverage that followed, many Americans became newly aware of the presence of tens of thousands of tons of spent fuel at more than 70 nuclear power plant sites around this country -- and of the fact that the United States currently has no physical capacity to do anything with this spent fuel other than to continue to leave it at the sites where it was first generated. [read post]
14 Mar 2022, 8:46 am by John Cetor
Key measures passed include the $4.65 billion state budget and Senate Bill 4, which repeals the state’s ban on nuclear power plants first established in 1994. [read post]
15 Aug 2021, 10:00 pm
The NRC’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently released a report (OIG-21-A-13) discussing the results of its audit of the NRC’s pandemic oversight of nuclear power plants. [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 6:27 am by William Helbling
[JURIST] Court-appointed prosecutors in Japan on Monday charged three former utility executives with counts of negligence in relation to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 3:35 pm by Jen Patja Howell
Trump administration officials pushed a plan to sell nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia. [read post]
17 Aug 2007, 5:43 am
Platts suggests that the  downturn  in cargos received may have been caused by U.S. prices more closely aligning with European prices and the expanded demand for LNG in Japan due to nuclear power plant outages. [read post]
15 Aug 2021, 10:00 pm
The NRC’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently released a report (OIG-21-A-13) discussing the results of its audit of the NRC’s pandemic oversight of nuclear power plants. [read post]
8 May 2011, 9:10 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Executives of the Chubu Electric Power company that has been hit with an irrational fear shutdown request for their Hamaoka nuclear plant by Prime Minister Kan are in no particular hurry to comply. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 10:36 am by Julia Zebley
[JURIST] The National Diet of Japan [official database], the nation's bicameral legislature, voted [bill materials, in Japanese] on Wednesday to compensate those adversely affected by the recent Fukushima [IAEA backgrounder] nuclear power plant meltdown. [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 7:36 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
From an WSJ article: A week ago, much of the plant was still without power, control rooms were dark and temperatures were out of control in the pools holding spent nuclear fuel. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 11:01 pm
The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says water may be leaking from the spent fuel pool of the No. 4 reactor.... [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 10:00 pm
In a recently issued NRC adjudicatory decision, the Commission reaffirmed its regulatory interpretation allowing power reactor licensees applying for subsequent license renewal (SLR), and the NRC Staff reviewing these applications, to rely on the NRC’s Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants (GEIS). [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 7:52 am by Marilyn Wesel
Lawmakers concluded the fall veto session on November 9, after passing Senate Bill 76 lifting Illinois’ moratorium on nuclear power plant construction in 2026. [read post]