One man was killed and eight were injured in a crane failure at the Arkansas Nuclear One power plant on 31 March. An unexplained failure caused a heavy lift gantry to collapse in the process of moving a 500-tonne component inside the turbine building.
Dominion has reverted to GE-Hitachi's Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) as the favoured technology for the proposed third unit at its North Anna plant in Virginia._615x170.jpg)
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Security guards at Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar nuclear power plant fired shots yesterday morning in an incident which is now under investigation.
Florida Power & Light is celebrating the completion of a major five-year upgrade program that has added over 500 MWe of capacity to four reactors at its Turkey Point and St Lucie sites._72x48.jpg "Installation work in MOX Process Building, June 2010 (NNSA) 72x48")
Work on a facility to convert weapons plutonium into reactor fuel is to be slowed down as the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) reconsiders its plutonium disposition strategy.
A formal agreement with the US Department of Energy (DoE) means that Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) mPower can access the first $79 million of federal funding under a government program to accelerate commercialization of small modular reactors (SMRs). 
An American court has sentenced a former engineering safety manager to 78 months in prison for falsifying information about injuries at three nuclear power plant sites.
A strategic review of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced as part of the US federal budget will consider the possible sale of all or part of the government-owned corporation. TVA executives appear to have been taken by surprise by the news.
Two more companies have registered their interest in operating the US Department of Energy's (DoE's) Paducah gaseous diffusion enrichment plant and utilising DoE's inventory of depleted uranium hexafluoride.