Bruce Power’s Unit 6 has been renewed and was connected to Ontario’s electricity grid today following its successful Major Component Replacement (MCR) outage to provide clean, reliable power to the province’s people, hospitals and businesses for decades to come. The Unit 6 MCR began in January 2020 and was completed ahead of schedule and on …
Winter prices almost close the difference with German power Signals of improved energy security after volatile period A steep drop in French electricity prices is signaling increasing confidence that Europe’s biggest fleet of nuclear reactors will be able to operate reliably through the winter. French power for the first quarter of next year traded at …
The approval will help in extending the life of the Monticello nuclear power plant by ten more years. cel Energy has secured clearance from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) in the US to extend the operation of its 671MW Monticello nuclear power plant through to 2040. With the approval, the company can expand the storage of spent …
The U.S. Justice Department is urging regulators to take a closer look at Vistra Corp.’s planned $6.8 billion acquisition of a rival power producer because it may be anticompetitive. The warning applies to Vistra’s proposed takeover of Energy Harbor Corp. announced in March, a deal that would more than double its nuclear capacity, increase its natural gas …
Unit 1 of the Tricastin nuclear power plant in southern France can operate for a further ten years, the country’s nuclear safety regulator, the Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN), has decided. It becomes the first French power reactor licensed to operate beyond 40 years. In February 2021, ASN set the conditions for the continued operation …
Hydro-Québec has confirmed it is assessing the current state of the plant which closed in 2012, as it looks at options to increase its production of clean electricity. Gentilly 2, with an installed capacity of 675 MWe, was Québec’s only operating nuclear power plant when the provincial government announced in September 2012 that a planned …
Gov. Whitmer Signs ‘Make it in Michigan’ Budget Balanced, bipartisan FY24 budget lowers costs, grows the economy, and delivers on kitchen-table issues LANSING, Mich.— Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a balanced, bipartisan general government state budget for Fiscal Year 2024 to grow the economy, lower costs, deliver on kitchen-table issues, and help anyone “Make it in Michigan.” The FY24 budget, when combined with the education budget previously signed by the governor, lowers costs on health care, preschool, meals for kids, higher education, housing, and workforce …
Kansai Electric Power Co. on Friday restarted the 48-year-old No. 1 reactor at its Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture for the first time in 12 years. The Takahama No. 1 reactor is the oldest of Japan’s nuclear reactors not set for decommissioning. It is the second time that a reactor over 40 years old …
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has completed a major 10-year project to install three new emergency power generators (EPGs) at its Darlington nuclear power plant to support the continued operation of the plant for decades to come. EPGs provide reliable backup power in case of an emergency. Each turbine/generator set and its auxiliary systems provides a …
The Bulgarian Nuclear Regulatory Agency said it has received an application requesting the issuance of a permit for the use of Westinghouse-manufactured VVER-1000 fuel in unit 5 of the country’s Kozloduy nuclear power plant. Westinghouse has signed a decade-long contract to supply fuel for the reactor. The regulator said the application submitted by the plant …
