Alstom has won a contract to provide steam turbine retrofit services for unit 2 of American Electric Power’s D.C. Cook nuclear plant, in Bridgeman, Mich.

Owners of coal-fired power plants invested more than $30 billion in flue gas desulfurization systems, also known as scrubbers, between 2007 and 2011.

Southern California Edison is considering proposing an amendment to its operating license with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that would allow the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to power back on before the peak demand of summer.

California-based MX Fire Solutions has been renamed Minimax Fire Solutions Inc.

The Kentucky Division of Waste Management has denied a permit for a coal ash landfill in Trimble County for the Trimble County Power Station.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) says the leaking waste storage containers at the Hanford nuclear reservation may have reopened the nuclear waste storage issue.

The power outage that affected the spent nuclear fuel pools at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant earlier this week was apparently caused by a rat.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced the city has taken actions to eliminate Los Angeles’ use of coal-fired power by 2025.

Vestas has secured a five-year service agreement from ENMAX Energy Corp. for the 63 MW Kettles Hill Wind Farm in Alberta, Canada.

A contractor is dead after an accident Wednesday morning at the Harrison Power Station in Haywood, W.Va.

Xcel Energy announced this week it set a record for wind generation in the upper Midwest by generating 1,713 MW from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Feb. 17, an amount representing nearly 33 percent of the company’s upper Midwest customer needs.

Power is back on at all spent fuel pools at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after a two-day outage scare.

Commissioners at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have directed the agency staff to follow a “two-track” approach for improvements at 31 reactors around the United States to systems for venting pressure during accidents.

Sempra U.S. Gas & Power is planning a major expansion of its 21 MW Auwahi Wind project in Hawaii.

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co. (FENOC) said that the 1,268 MW Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Ohio went offline on March 18 for a scheduled refueling, maintenance and turbine upgrade outage.

The troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s Unit 2 is ready to be operated safely at 100 percent capacity, says plant operator Southern California Edison.

A surprise power outage in the cooling system for spent nuclear fuel at Fukushima sent operators scrambling for a fix Monday evening.

GE Oil & Gas received a $620 million, 22-year contractual service agreement to provide a broad range of technology services for QGC’s Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) plant off the coast of Australia.

NB Power reduced reactor power over the weekend to 35 percent at the Point Lepreau Generating Station in New Brunswick.