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AKRON, Ohio, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), announced its Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Perry, Ohio, returned to service at 1:08 p.m. today following a March 18, 2013, shutdown for refueling and maintenance. The 1,268-megawatt unit is currently operating at 21 percent power. Power levels will vary over the next several days as part of routine testing. The plant is expected to reach full power...
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Florida House of Representatives today passed an amended version of the Senate's bill that attempts to scale back the anti-consumer "early cost recovery" law passed in 2006, which allows the state's big power companies to shift all the financial risk of building new nuclear reactors to its customers. Senate bill 1472 (http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=50560) as passed by the House...
KYIV, Ukraine, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In order to minimize the economic losses from the disaster which may reach USD 180 billion in 2015, it is important to come up with a comprehensive development program for the regions affected by the Chornobyl Nuclear Power plant explosion in 1986. Such statement was made by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych during his visit to the plant in Chornobyl on the 27th anniversary of the nuclear disaster. Construction of a new...
BEIJING, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hollysys Automation Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: HOLI) ("Hollysys" or the "Company"), a leading provider of automation and control technologies and applications in China, today announced that its proprietary HOLLiAS-N Distributed Control System ("HOLLiAS-N DCS") was successfully applied to Unit 1of Ningde Nuclear Power Plant ("Ningde NPP") and went into commercial operation. Hollysys' HOLLiAS-N DCS is one of the high-end DCS products...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Nuclear employees received a visit on Thursday, April 4, from the Nuclear Clean Air Energy IndyCar race team, including all-star driver Simona De Silvestro. Several hundred employees attended the event and had their photographs taken next to De Silvestro, who began the racing season with a sixth place finish at St. Petersburg. De Silvestro and the race team were in town to compete in the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama at the...
Major Projects Include Upgrade of Low Pressure Turbines AKRON, Ohio, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), announced its Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Perry, Ohio, shut down at 12 a.m. today for scheduled refueling, maintenance and a turbine upgrade expected to improve efficiency and reliability. While the unit is off line, 280 of the 748 fuel assemblies will be replaced, and numerous safety...
Implications for Levy County Reactor Project Discussed WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mark Cooper -- a leading U.S. expert on nuclear reactor financing who has testified at several Florida PSC hearings since 2009 - is available this afternoon to comment on the announcement by Duke Energy of plans to close their Crystal River nuclear reactor. He issued the following statement today: "The closure of the Crystal River plant should come as no surprise. The...
ATLANTA, Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The next generation of nuclear operators is being trained in the most modern nuclear plant simulators in the world, at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121126/CL18626 ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050216/CLW066LOGO ) Over the next year and a half, more than 100 operators will be trained on the systems and integrated plant operations of the AP1000® reactor. This will...
AKRON, Ohio, Nov. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), announced its Beaver Valley Power Station Unit 2 in Shippingport, Penn., returned to service at 5:22 p.m. last night following a September 24, 2012, shutdown for refueling and maintenance. The 904-megawatt plant is currently operating at 23 percent power and is expected to reach full power in the next week. During the outage, 65 of the plant's 157...
