EPU underway at Browns Ferry Unit 3
Power uprates like this have added over 23 gigawatts of extra nuclear generating capacity over the years…
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Author: John Livingston
Dominion Energy to buy SCANA
This is the outcome of the collapse of Westinghouse and the shutdown of new plant construction at VC Summer…
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Power generation is down. Guess what’s happened to nuclear’s share?
Despite the booming economy and GDP growth since the Great Recession, electrical generation has declined. It never recovered, reports one site. Along these…
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Memoirs of the anti-Communist banker who founded the commercial nuclear power industry
The years immediately following the end of World War II were marked by two important realities: the beginning of the Cold War with the…
Book Reviews
San Onofre in California is shut down. But its spent fuel still remains.
The media has taken notice of the problem of spent fuel being stored indefinitely at reactor sites, which, for now, will be there long…
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A brief history of Westinghouse’s financial struggles, beginning in 1907
Westinghouse filed for bankruptcy in March of 2017. But this isn’t the first time the company has had financial struggles…
Atomic Energy History
Material Lead Time Tips
Lead time is a factor when specifying parts for a project. For planning purposes, you need to know how long it will take for…
Mod Package Design Tips
Brief history of early US nuclear regulation
Most people probably don’t know anything about the beginning of US nuclear regulation…
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