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Feds send special team to inspect Davis-Besse

Mar 18 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Tom Henry The Blade, Toledo, Ohio - With more questions arising out of the latest situation at Davis-Besse, federal regulators announced late yesterday they have dispatched a special inspection team to the Ottawa County nuclear plant. More...

NRC to hold public meeting on March 23 to discuss efforts to improve performance of Ginna Nuclear Plant

Mar 18, 2010 -- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS/ContentWorks - Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, March 23 regarding the agency's annual assessment of safety performance for the Ginna nuclear power plant during 2009. More...

Vogtle studying federal loan offer

Mar 18 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Rob Pavey The Augusta Chronicle, Ga. - Southern Company and its subsidiary, Georgia Power, have not yet determined whether they will accept the Obama administration's Feb. More...

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VY may extract tainted water from under plant

Mar 18 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Bob Audette Brattleboro Reformer, Vt. - Engineers are working on a plan to extract up to 300,000 gallons of tritium contaminated groundwater from under the site of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. More...

NRC to discuss 2009 performance assessment for Palo Verde Nuclear Station

Mar 18, 2010 -- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS/ContentWorks - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will meet in Tonopah, Ariz., on March 30, with representatives of Arizona Public Service Co., to discuss the agency's assessment of safety performance during 2009 at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. More...

Short-term Davis-Besse halt viewed as not costly

Mar 17 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Jon Chavez The Blade, Toledo, Ohio - If the repairs under way at FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse nuclear power plant near Oak Harbor are completed before summer, it shouldn't affect the utility's bottom line. More...

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission to confer with San Onofre operators over safety

Mar 16 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Fred Swegles The Orange County Register, Calif. - Nuclear regulators invite the public next week when the feds meet with Southern California Edison to go over last year's safety performance at San Onofre. More...

WRC voices concerns about Vermont Yankee tritium leak

Mar 17 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Bob Audette Brattleboro Reformer, Vt. - Any of the costs expended to clean up a leak of tritiated water at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant should come out of operating costs and not out of the decommissioning fund, said Jim Matteau, the executive director of the Windham Regional Council. More...

NouvEON Delivers Successful Change to Leading Utility

NouvEON - Charlotte-based management consulting firm NouvEON has completed two major initiatives for a leading national utility. more...

Tritium could affect VY cleanup costs

Mar 15 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Bob Audette Brattleboro Reformer, Vt. - The possible remediation costs of contaminated groundwater at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon due to a leak of tritiated water is dependent on a number of conditions, said a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. More...

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