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Early nuclear power plants in the United States were custom designs, but the LaCrosse Boiling Water Reactor in Wisconsin was truly unique in both its design and construction. That uniqueness has carried over into the work to decommission and dismantle the plant. Owned by the Dairyland Power Cooperative, the facility on the Mississippi River near [...]
The NRC’s Region I Office has been monitoring contract negotiations for some unionized workers at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant. The Plymouth, Mass., plant is operated by Entergy Nuclear Operations. The United Workers Union of America Local 369 represents members of the maintenance, radiation protection, chemistry, and operations organizations. The two sides have been unable [...]
The NRC requires that all nuclear power plants follow strict access authorization regulations that are intended to make sure only trusted individuals have the OK to be in the most sensitive areas of the plant. These access authorization regulations require fingerprint checks, drug and alcohol screening, psychological testing and other hurdles when employees are first [...]
The NRC recently issued a report that documents how we reached the conclusion the cracks discovered in the Davis-Besse shield building do not compromise its ability to perform its safety function. We’ve previously written about the NRC’s exhaustive efforts to ensure the cracks found in the shield building around the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant’s containment [...]
In the nuclear business the axiom is that an accident anywhere is an accident everywhere. In the time that has passed since the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant was overwhelmed by an earthquake and tsunami the nuclear community has seen again that nuclear communication is global as well. Last week, 170 national nuclear regulators, national [...]
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