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?