The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in the United States has approved the life extension for the 1,268-megawatt Perry ...

Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse’s advocacy for nuclear energy is being credited with securing a key win for the Tri-Cities and ...

It is a boiling water reactor that can supply 300 MW electricity to the grid. Apart from this, it can also provide hot water and steam that can be used for district heating, ...

In the proverbial shadow of the Naughton Power Plant, a station in Kemmerer, Wyoming, that will stop burning coal at the end ...

Both the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers remain above recommended nitrate levels, at 12.25 mg/L and 13.99 mg/L, respectively.

Both are advanced boiling water reactors, each capable of generating 1.35 million kilowatts. The remaining five reactors, which started commercial operations between 1985 and 1994, ...

The plant utilizes boiling water reactors (BWR), the same type as the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which suffered triple meltdowns following the earthquake and tsunami. ...

Water cooled reactors have played a significant role in the commercial nuclear industry since its beginnings and currently account for more than 95 per cent of all operating civilian power reactors in ...

New York is home to the nation's oldest nuclear reactor - Nine Mile Point's Unit 1 - which has been around since 1969.

The Fukushima accident prompted a pullback from atomic power in Japan, with the power source falling from 30 per cent of the energy mix to almost nothing, as well as reshaping support globally for the ...

The Shimane No. 2 unit will be the second boiling water reactor, after the No. 2 unit at Tohoku Electric Power's Onagawa nuclear plant, to be brought back online since reactors of the same type ...

That’s where a former boiling water nuclear reactor plant is being decommissioned. Culps said the company has not yet explored building SMR units at its Big Rock Point nuclear site up north near ...