A committee considering the future of Japan Atomic Energy Agency's Monju prototype fast breeder reactor has set out the requirements for an alternative operator for it. A committee considering the ...

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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) issued a letter on April 14 to provide guidance on reactor operator licensing requirements during the coronavirus ...

Atomic energy is getting a surge of support these days, including from people who not too long ago opposed any expansion of its use. Gov. JB Pritzker, for example, now enthusiastically backs lifting ...

A reactor operator at the Entergy Arkansas Inc.-owned Arkansas Nuclear One deliberately accessed the internet hundreds of times over four months while assigned to watch over the reactor, according to ...

A third training class of nuclear operators for Vogtle units 3 and 4 have passed their US Nuclear Regulatory Commission initial licensing exam. Fifty-six licensed operators are now available for the ...

Indian Point’s Unit 2 reactor shut down late Thursday after nearly 46 years generating electricity for Westchester County and New York City. At 11 p.m., a reactor operator in the control room pressed ...

Five miles from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, in a wooded, suburban neighborhood, in a nondescript office building, is a very unusual room. It looks a lot like the bridge of the Starship ...

In March 1979, Ron Fountain was an auxiliary reactor operator at Three Mile Island. He came to the job by a circuitous route. He had previously worked as a maintenance mechanic for an airline and a ...

A routine inspection at Europe's oldest nuclear power plant Monday inadvertently triggered an emergency shutdown of one of the reactors, its Swiss operator said, stressing there had never been any ...

HFIR reactor operators working from a motorized bridge use hand tools that are 30 feet long to work on the reactor core submerged in a pool 17 feet deep. Veterans of the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion ...

A reactor operator at the Entergy Arkansas Inc.-owned Arkansas Nuclear One deliberately accessed the internet hundreds of times over four... Lucas Dufalla covers the Mississippi River Basin for the ...