This article presents an example of an ongoing upgrade project at a nuclear power plant site in Finland. As a result of this upgrade project, a major part of the low voltage systems within two nuclear power plant units will be replaced during a period of six years.

A string of accidents and failures in energy-related projects—especially recent events related to the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan—has sharpened the global focus on a safe, reliable energy supply.

New nuclear’s future may depend less on what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Japan than what is happening at two construction sites in Europe.

Participants from such companies as Burns & McDonnell, TVA and Fluor discuss how much of an impact the coal industry could have on future U.S. generation.

The 1,140 MW Unit 2 at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania resumed operations on June 29 after damaged turbine blades were replaced during a planned refueling and maintenance outage.

The Shaw Group Inc. was awarded a contract to provide life-cycle management services for Indiana Michigan Power Co.’s 2,155 MW Cook Nuclear Plant in Michigan.

Nuclear power safety is still making news headlines as Japan’s crisis continues to unfold. Yes, the situation there is very serious and a review of nuclear power plants is the next move to make, as is being done in the United States.

The aging baseload fleet of power plants in the U.S. will not be completely replaced with new or modernized nuclear, coal and combined-cycle plants for 70 years or longer, according to a report by a new industry association.

The Department of Energy (DOE) dedicated the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL), an advanced research facility that will accelerate the advancement of nuclear reactor technology.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a request by NextEra Energy to increase the generating capacity of both Units 1 and 2 at the Point Beach Nuclear Plant by 17 percent.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant accident in Japan is widely expected to slow new plant development efforts in a number of countries. The events also may impact existing plants, either via temporary or permanent shutdowns of some aging units or via design and procedure modifications to enhance plant safety.

The Letter to the Editor in the February issue by a manufacturer of emission control technologies contained two errors that require a response.

Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas Inc. won a contract from Constellation Energy Nuclear Group LLC  to replace the electric generator at the Ginna Nuclear Power Plant in 2014.

The new designs proposed in the U.S. follow Generation III and Generation III+ designs that incorporate enhanced safety features that build on lessons learned from the current generation of commercial power reactors.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the U.S. doesn’t need to suspend work on new nuclear permits while investigating the crisis in Japani.

Iberdrola Ingenieria completed modernization work on the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant in Mexico.

At 4:30 a.m. on Dec. 2, 1957, the control rods at the Shippingport Atomic Power Station were raised just enough to allow the world’s first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses to reach criticality. After two weeks of testing and power ascension, the plant was providing electricity throughout the Pittsburgh area. Philip Fleger, Chairman of the Board for Duquesne Light Co., said, “The lessons already learned in building this pioneer station, the lessons yet to be learned in operating it, will be applied throughout the free world. Atomic power stations now under construction, as well as others still to be designed, will be more efficient and more economical because of it.”