Maintenance outages at Forsmark 3 and Oskarshamn 3 have been extended after defects were found in control rods. The units, totalling 2323 MWe of capacity, are not expected to restart until the end of ...

Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it has signed a contract with Forsmarks Kraftgrupp AB for the delivery of control rods to Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Units 1 and 2. The ...

Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy will replace four control rod blades at its Monticello Nuclear Power Plant next month after a major nuclear industry manufacturer reported a potential “substantial safety ...

Areva Inc. completed the factory acceptance test for the installation of a digital control rod drive control system (DCRDCS) at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Ohio. With the successful ...

Engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have reached a critical milestone in the development of the MARVEL microreactor. They have successfully assembled and tested a novel Reactivity Control ...

People living near the Three Mile Island nuclear plant may have heard a loud release of steam at 1 a.m. Wednesday as the plant was shut down after an electrical issue developed in the reactor. The ...

General Douglas MacArthur, commanding general for the unified U.N. forces Aiding the Republic of Korea to repel the North Korean Communists, and a staff officer (right) inspecting a North Korean tank ...