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.
Commercial operation of the long-shuttered second unit at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar nuclear plant in Tennessee got underway earlier this month, the first U.S. nuke reactor to start up since 1996, when a sister 1,150-unit came on line.
The Tennessee Valley Authority said it is pleased with the response to its request for bids to buy the partially completed Bellefonte nuclear-power site in Alabama.
Repositories for disposal of low-level and intermediate radioactive wastes are operating in a number of countries, but high-level wastes require more secure disposal.
Controversy continues to dog the cooling system at Florida Power & Light Co.’s 3550-MW Turkey Point Power Station in Florida City despite the utility’s June 20 consent agreement with the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection.
In a power-generation market buffeted by cheap natural gas, increasingly cheap wind and solar energy, demands for carbon-free fuels, environmental regulations, distributed energy resources,
advances in energy storage and other innovations and changes, what role can nuclear energy play?
Hypersaline cooling-water seepage from Florida Power & Light Co.’s 3550-MW Turkey Point Power Station in Florida City has polluted the shallow Biscayne Aquifer and now is being drawn back to the plant’s property through retraction wells in an operation expected to take 10 years.
