Items Tagged with 'decommissioning'

But will investment in new, reopened and upgraded coal burning power plants be enough to reinvigorate the long-ailing segment of the U.S. energy industry?

Steam generator components are main focus of U.S. work, with numerous inspections ongoing to revive the 55-year-old Michigan power station; Japan, meanwhile, is forced for a second time to delay restart of its world-record size nuclear plant, shut down since the 2011 Fukushima meltdown.

Holtec International, owner of Michigan plant set to be the first to restart in the U.S., says worker assessing conditions fell into a cavity containing radioactive water 

Michigan plant, the first U.S. commercial reactor set to operate after decommissioning, gains federal approvals despite opponents' strong safety concerns

Crews have nearly completed demolition of a buried nuclear-reactor caisson at Humboldt Bay Power Plant Unit 3. 

AREVA Nuclear Materials signed a contract on July 11 with NorthStar Group Services to help decommission the defunct Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.