The NRC sent two specialized inspectors to Duke Energy’s Harris nuclear power plant in North Carolina after a quarter-inch flaw was found on the reactor vessel head on May 15.

The global nuclear power industry has begun to put the Fukushima disaster in the past “and is looking forward to the future,” International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano told a gathering of nuclear leaders Monday.

Reports that the Tokyo Electric Power Co. has applied to restart Japan’s nuclear fleet this summer have sent the utility’s stock prices soaring.

The Shearon Harris nuclear power plant in North Carolina shut down after signs of corrosion and cracking were found.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a proposal to amend its own regulations for the packaging and transportation of radioactive material.

Westinghouse Electric Co. and State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. today announced the opening of a joint venture, SNPTC-WEC Nuclear Power Technical Services (Beijing) Co. Ltd.

Unit 2 at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Maryland suddenly shut down late May 8.

Operators at PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant disconnected Unit 1 from the regional power grid early Thursday, beginning a scheduled outage to install turbine modifications.

Southern California Edison is considering retiring both of its Pacific coast nuclear reactors.

Areva was awarded a $70 million, multi-year contract to supply uranium concentrates (U3O8) to be used in fueling a U.S. utility’s nuclear fleet.

Areva dedicated its new Fuel Field Services support center at its Solutions Complex in Lynchburg, Va.

The Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) chose InStep Software’s eDNA software suite to perform real-time environmental and radiological monitoring of the state’s seven nuclear power plants for $1.4 million.

Fluor Corp. was awarded a contract extension for operations and maintenance work at Pacific Gas & Electric’s Diablo Canyon nuclear units 1 and 2 in California.

Low wholesale power prices lately are putting profit pressure on nuclear power plant operators due to compression of "quark" spreads—which are a measure of the potential profitability of nuclear power plants, said the U.S. Energy Information Administration on April 24

Fluor, in partnership with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, has been selected by Dominion Virginia Power to provide project development services for Dominion’s proposed 1,470 MW nuclear unit at the North Anna Power Station in Louisa County, Va.

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) announced today that the Japan Nuclear Safety Institute (JANSI) will begin participating in a number of EPRI’s nuclear research programs.

Inspectors from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission have found a safety violation at the units under construction at the VC Summer nuclear plant.

AREVA has received a contract award to provide Duke Energy 20 VEGA Through-Air Radar Spent Fuel Pool Level Instrumentation (SFPLI) systems for the company’s nuclear energy plants, as well as a system specifically for training.

The first-ever simulated terrorist attack drill at a nuclear power plant in the US has been deemed a success by federal officials.