Philip K. Asherman, chief executive of CB&I, says he believes prime contractor Toshiba Corp. will finish two delayed and over budget nuclear power-plant projects in Georgia and South Carolina.
New York state could replace electricity from the Indian Point nuclear power plant through improved efficiency and imported hydropower, says a Feb. 23 study by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Riverkeeper.
NuScale Power on Jan. 12 submitted an application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to gain approval of its small modular reactor, the first such submission of the design to the agency.
Last spring, at the Plant Vogtle construction site near Waynesboro, Ga., executives representing Georgia Power, its lead contractors and trades groups gathered to commit publicly to turning around the $16-billion nuclear power-plant expansion.
Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, a 108-meter-tall, 162-m-long, 257-m-wide steelwork vault began its slide from a safe area to cover the ruined radioactive reactor No. 4.
Decommissioning nuclear power plants that have reached the end of their useful life will be a growing market for engineering and
construction firms over the next 30 years, according to an executive from AECOM.