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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Thursday it will issue licenses for the first U.S. nuclear reactors in a generation.
The NRC said it expects to issue combined construction and operating licenses for two new reactors at the Vogtle plant near Augusta, Ga., within 10 days. Site preparation is already under way on the $14 billion project by a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Co.
NRC approves first new nuclear plants in 30 years
Leaking & Damaged Nuclear Power Plants In The US Exposed
Across the United States numerous nuclear power plants are having problems which include damaged tubes and small releases of radiation.
The Intel Hub News Brief, speaking to the RadChick, recently released a podcast on these nuclear power plants problems.
Canada plan to sell oil to China faces big hurdles
Prime Minister Stephen Harper may still be smarting from Canada's failed bid to ramp up oil exports to the United States, but his plan B could prove to be even tougher.
Harper heads across the Pacific next week in a bid to convince China to satisfy its growing energy appetite with Canada's vast oil reserves.
San Onofre Nuclear Plant: 100s of troubled tubes, gas leak
As workers began inspecting a leaky tube in one of the San Onofre nuclear plant's reactors Thursday, federal regulators said more than 800 tubes in a second, offline reactor showed wear and thinning, although they are only two years old.
And plant officials confirmed that sensors showed a tiny amount of radioactive gas may have leaked out of a building next to the first reactor before the reactor was shut down late Tuesday.
San Diego Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down After Leak Discovered
The San Onofre nuclear plant north of San Diego was closed by officials on Wednesday after a radiation leak was discovered by regulators. Officials say the leak has posed no danger to plant workers or the general public although they do admit that a small amount of radioactive gas managed to escape from a leaky tube in a steam generator.
The steam generator system where the leak was discovered was replaced just a little over a year ago and plant workers in the meantime are investigating the leak to determine where the new system went wrong.
NRC says Exelon has 4 years to reassess earthquake vulnerability at Illinois nuclear plants
Nuclear plants throughout the central and eastern United States must be reassessed within four years to determine how well they might withstand earthquakes, including plants in Illinois and Iowa where new geological data suggest earthquakes could be more frequent and intense than previously believed, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.
The commission this week released an updated seismic risk model that plant operators must use to recalculate risks. The model has been in development for four years but took on a greater urgency after last year's nuclear disaster in Japan following an earthquake and tsunami, said Viktoria Mitlyng, a Lisle, Ill.-based spokeswoman for the NRC.
Ill. nuclear reactor loses power, venting steam
A nuclear reactor at a northern Illinois plant shut down Monday after losing power, and steam was being vented to reduce pressure, according to officials from Exelon Nuclear and federal regulators.
Unit 2 at Byron Generating Station shut down around 10:18 a.m., after losing power from an off-site source, Exelon officials said. Diesel generators began supplying power to the plant equipment and operators began releasing steam from the non-nuclear side of the plant to help cool the reactor, officials said.
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