Did the Russian government try to hack into a U.S. nuclear power plant, Wolf Creek in Kansas, repeatedly over eight years? That’s the charge in an August federal indictment, released this week (March 25). The multitudes of attacks, from 2012 through 2018, were marginally successful, but posed no real threat to the 1,200-MW Westinghouse pressurized… More Unsealed indictment: Russian cyberattack on Kansas nuclear plant

By Victor Gilinsky Henry Sokolski Just as the terrorist attacks on 9/11 required a reexamination of how best to protect against terrorist airplane hijackings, Russia’s military assault on Ukrainian nuclear plants raises questions about the security of nuclear reactors in war zones. In the wake of 2001, the United States quickly took simple but effective measures to… More Guest Commentary: Russia, Ukraine, nuclear weapons and civilian nukes

Finland’s Olkiluoto 3 nuclear plant, more than a dozen years behind schedule and way over the initial budget, connected to the Finnish grid March 12. The plant, where construction began in 2005 as a companion to two existing reactors on an island on the Gulf of Bothnia in the country’s west coast, is a pressurized… More Olkiluoto 3 goes online, finally; Finland halts a new nuke over Ukraine

In the recent, often breathless, discussion of Russia’s attack on a nuclear power station in southern Ukraine, there hasn’t been much detailed information about Ukraine’s nuclear power program, one of the most advanced in the world. Here are some facts about Ukraine nukes, drawn from various credible sources. According to the World Nuclear Association, the… More Ukraine nuclear power system described

A federal grand jury this week has indicted former Illinois House speaker Michael Madigan and a key ally, Michael McClain, on 22 counts of racketeering, bribery, and extortion, unveiling a long-term corrupt association between the once all-powerful state legislator and Chicago’s electric utility company Commonwealth Edison, the largest utility in the state and an Exelon… More Feds indict former Illinois speaker Madigan and aide