One worker suffered minor injuries after an explosion in a coal bunker at DTE Energy’s St. Clair coal-fired power plant in Michigan.

Nanosolar Inc. has announced the completion of a 1 MW ground-mounted solar installation at Camp Roberts, a California's National Guard training facilities, located in San Miguel, Calif.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on May 15 told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) it is making progress in its efforts to reduce fire risk and equipment reliability at the three-unit, 3,300 MW Brown Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama.

TransCanada Corp. said that the in-service date of the Bruce A Unit 2 nuclear reactor in Ontario will be delayed.

Operators at Exelon Nuclear’s 2,345 MW Limerick Generating Station, 21 miles northwest of Philadephia, Pa., removed Unit 2 from service on May 18 for a scheduled maintenance outage.

The U.S. Energy Department (DOE) announced $500,000 available in 2012 to support a project to deploy and test a wave energy conversion device for one year at the U.S. Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site on the island of Oahu.

Rolls-Royce said it delivered the final components of a multimillion dollar package of automated handling, transportation and storage technology to Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL), Canada's leading nuclear science and technology laboratory.

The Shaw Group Inc. said it has signed a new contract with Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp. to provide maintenance and other support services to its single-unit, 1,200 MW nuclear power plant northeast of Burlington, Kan.

In a study commissioned by the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO), economists at The Brattle Group evaluated the feasibility of complying with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule.

Two underground radioactive waste tanks at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina have been filled with more than 1 million gallons of grout as part of the operational closing of the tanks.

A consortium including GE and Spanish energy services company Tamoin Energías Renovables signed the largest single GE wind turbine maintenance agreement in Europe with Iberdrola Renovables S.A. of Madrid.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said it will increase oversight at the North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia because of a violation of low to moderate safety significance related to the maintenance of the plant’s emergency diesel generators.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff said it is increasing its oversight of Unit 1 at Florida Power & Light (FPL)’s St. Lucie nuclear power plant in Florida as a result of the number and type of unplanned shutdowns the plant has experienced.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a repeatable test protocol that simulates real shade conditions and can predict with greater precision the effects of shade on a solar array.

L-3 Mapps will proceed with two projects to update the full scope simulator at Axpo’s Beznau nuclear power plant in Switzerland.

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co. (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., said the 911 MW Unit 1 at the Beaver Valley Power Station in Shippingport, Pa., returned to service May 11, 2012 following an April 9, 2012, shutdown for refueling and maintenance.

Cogentrix Energy LLC on May 10 said the 30 MW Alamosa Solar Generating plant in the San Luis Valley of Colorado entered commercial operation.

U.S. Geothermal Inc., a developer, seller and producer of geothermal energy, said that its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor, TAS Energy Inc., has started performance testing on the new 8.6 MW San Emidio power plant in Nevada.

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on May 8 said more than $47 million in scholarships, fellowships, research grants and university research reactor upgrades will be made available to train and educate the next generation of leaders in America’s nuclear industry.