The U.S. Department of Justice is dropping criminal charges against former Westinghouse CEO Danny Roderick in return for becoming a witness in the criminal cases involving the failed V.C. Summer two-unit, 2,000-MW nuclear construction project. The project cratered in July 2017 after spending some $10 billion and constantly lying to state regulators about the progress … More DOJ drops charges against ex-Westinghouse CEO in return for testimony in VC Summer criminal cases

Nearly 20 years after construction began, Finland’s 1,600-MW Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant could be in limited service early next year. The plant, a French-designed advanced pressurized water reactor has seen a world of troubles throughout its lengthy construction period, plagued by design issues and construction delays by the French-German Areva-Siemens consortium. Construction began in … More Finland’s Olkiluoto 3 nuke finally could be nearing the finish line

The Biden administration, facing over half a century of US failure to deal with spent nuclear fuel, including the latest, 30-year debacle of the now-abandoned Yucca Mountain geologic repository in Nevada, has decided to revive a push for monitored, retrievable interim storage. US high-level nuclear waste totals some 86,000 tons of metal, and the inventory … More Biden DOE pushing interim storage for nuke waste

As the Biden administration pushes advanced nuclear reactors as a weapon against global warming, including export of US technology, the Washington-based Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is warning that the Department of Energy should eschew export of sodium-cooled, fast breeder reactors. In a Nov. 29 letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Henry Sokolski, NPEC executive … More Group warns against exporting fast reactors

It’s the nuclear news story that won’t go away. More delays look in store for the Southern Company’s troubled two-unit, 2,000-MW Vogtle 3-4 construction project. The Georgia Power project to build new, 1,000-MW Westinghouse reactors at an existing site, which began construction in 2009, with a project startup in 2014, could now be pushed back … More Vogtle Déjà Vu: More Schedule Delays?