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ATLANTA, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The workforce building the nation's first new nuclear energy facility in 30 years at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle has passed a significant milestone - 10 million work hours. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121023/CL98203 ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050216/CLW066LOGO ) Approximately 2,300 people are now on site at Vogtle units 3 and 4 near Waynesboro. At peak construction, the project is expected to create 5,000...

AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), today announced that construction of the Emergency Operations Facility for its Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station has been completed. Located in Lindsey, Ohio, the new 12,000-square-foot facility supports overall management of activities related to maintaining public health and safety during the unlikely event of an emergency at the plant. The...

RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion (NYSE: D) today said it plans to close and decommission its Kewaunee Power Station in Carlton, Wis., after the company was unable to find a buyer for the 556-megawatt nuclear facility. Pending a grid reliability review by the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO), the station is expected to cease power production in the second quarter of 2013 and move to safe shutdown. Dominion announced in April 2011 that...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online They may not be using alien technology, but physicists from Los Alamos National Laboratory are looking to outer space for help in diagnosing a damaged nuclear reactors like the one that caused massive evacuations around the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011. According to their report in the journal Physical Letters, the research team from Los Alamos National Laboratory has found a way to use cosmic ray radiation to accurately...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Unit 1 of the Alvin M. Vogtle Nuclear Plant near Waynesboro, Ga., has safely resumed generating electricity following completion of a successful, planned refueling and maintenance outage. Electricity production resumed Oct. 18 at 10:43 a.m. ET. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080801/SOCOLOGO ) Each unit at Plant Vogtle requires new fuel every 18 months. In addition to refueling the reactor and performing regular maintenance...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, The American Security Project released a report on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and the opportunity for nuclear power in the coming years. SMRs are nuclear power plants that are intentionally designed to be about 1/3 of the size or less of conventional large reactors. These small designs present a variety of benefits over large reactors, including advantages on cost, safety and flexibility. With the nuclear industry facing...

WELCH, Minn., Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In a filing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) this week, the Prairie Island Indian Community (PIIC) previewed issues it hopes to raise during an early November hearing with the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board - when the tribe will continue its fight against a 40-year extension of onsite nuclear waste storage on Prairie Island. Xcel Energy's initial Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) license expires on...

MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightbridge Corporation (NASDAQ: LTBR), a leading innovator of next generation nuclear fuel designs and provider of nuclear energy consulting services to commercial and governmental organizations, today announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Seth Grae will present a corporate update at 11:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, October 11 at the RedChip 15(th) Annual Fall Small-Cap Conference at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco. To...

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. (OTC:AEHI; www.aehipower.com) today announced the company is exploring the use of small modular reactors (SMR) on its proposed nuclear power plant site in Payette County, Idaho. These designs have progressed to the point of consideration now as they have gotten much closer to the Federal approval stage. SMRs range between 45 and 220 MWe and because of their modular and easily expandable design, their...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- International Isotopes Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: INIS) is pleased to announce that the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a Part 40 combined construction and operating license for the Company's planned depleted uranium de-conversion and fluorine extraction processing facility. The license was signed and issued to the Company during a brief ceremony at NRC offices in Bethesda, Maryland on October 2, 2012....