Power Plant Operations & Maintenance

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Plant Operations & Maintenance

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Plant Automation

Nuclear power simulator delivered to the Center for Advanced Engineering and Research

01/27/2012 L-3 Mapps said it has delivered a research simulator to the Center ...

Westinghouse receives orders for nuclear safety equipment

01/24/2012 Westinghouse Electric Co. has received five orders for 37 of the co...

Plant Optimization

Wind energy balance of plant work awarded to RES Canada

01/24/2012 Renewable Energy Systems Canada Inc. (RES Canada) was awarded a bal...

Japan to set age limits on nuclear reactors

01/10/2012 Japanese officials say they will require nuclear reactors in the co...

Safety & Protection

Nuclear power plant unit shuts down after off-site power loss

01/30/2012 Exelon Corp’s 1,136 MW Unit 2 at the Byron nuclear power plant in I...

GE Hitachi signs MOU in Finland for nuclear power plant projects

01/26/2012 GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) said it has signed a new project de...

Instrumentation & Controls

Nuclear power reactor in China to use Hollysys controls

12/22/2011 Hollysys Automation Technologies Ltd. said it received a purchase o...

Combined heat and power plant to be upgraded at university

10/14/2011 The University of Michigan plans to spend $6.75 million to update i...

Testing

B&W to apply for small modular nuclear reactor funding

02/01/2012 The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W) said that it plans to apply ...

Gamesa, NREL team up on wind turbine research

01/30/2012 The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laborator...

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Investigating the Effects of Piping Configuration and Water Supply Pressure on Air Intrusion

01/01/2012 A study to understand the effects of geometry and water supply pres...

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O&M Retrofits & Upgrades

Coal-fired power plant to be upgraded by B&W

01/27/2012 The Babcock & Wilcox Co. said its subsidiary Babcock & Wilc...

Nuclear power plant being upgraded in 2012

01/11/2012 Southern California Edison (SCE) on Jan. 9 temporarily removed Unit...