Nuclear Power ProtestReports that Reverend Carrie Bolton delivered a speech at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in North Carolina on April 30, 2000 in protest on the attempts of Carolina Power and Light company to construct co...
Calvert Cliffs Unit 1 was the first successfully relicensed nuclear power plant in America. CEG owns Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. (Source: CEG web site.) Its Dry Casks are extremely vulnerable to airplane strikes. Charlie Cruse is the Vice President - Nuclear Energy at Calvert Cliffs. Plant...
At least four security guards at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in North Carolina were dismissed from their jobs for informing the plant's owner about security problems at the facility, according to a complaint filed by the N.C. Waste Awareness & Reduction Network (N.C. WARN), a group ...
three independent firms left them confident the factory was not an environmental threat. south carolina's westinghouse plant has nearly 1,000 workers and is one of three factories in the u.s. making the fuel to run nuclear power plants. the other facilities are in wilmington, north ...
The voters of North Carolina rejected the plan for rate hikes to finance new nuclear power plants10. Sacramento California's municipal utility's nuclear power plant was shut down due to a referendum by the voters. This utility company has already invested in renewable energy with electric power...
CCF recently had the opportunity to tour Constellation Energy’s Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Calvert County. The station’s two nuclear reactors cangenerateup to 1,790 megawatts of zero-emissions energy — enough around-the-clock electricity to power the equivalent of more than 1.3 milli...
After 14 years of construction, the third nuclear reactor unit at Georgia’s Plant Vogtle has finally started delivering power to customers. It’s America’s first newly built reactor in over 30 years.
Last year, EON’s Isar-2 nuclear power plant in Bavaria produced 11.5TWh of electricity. Built in 1988, it is the second-most productive nuclear power station in the world. By comparison, all 6,100 wind turbines in Denmark only generated 13.9TWh. Yes, one well-run German nuclear power st...
The Chernobyl disaster occurred on 25–26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine. During the nighttime hours, engineers at the station performed a “blackout” failure test in which emergency safety systems were deliberately disabled to test the station’s emergency ...
days, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will approve a Combined Operating License (COL) for Dominion Virginia Power’s third nuclear power plant planned for its North Anna site in Louisa County, Virginia. That means that as far as the federal agency is concerned, North Anna 3 is good to go....