STP Nuclear Operating Co. said the reactors also achieved the lowest unsubsidized production cost among US nuclear power plants — 1.356 cents per kWh in 2006 — and the lowest fuel cost of all ...

Mark I Reactor Running Normally: Recirculation loops (RED) keep pressurized water circulating through the uranium core of the reactor. When water is heated by the uranium core it turns to steam.

Another reactor vessel head is currently travelling across the US state of California towards the Palo Verde nuclear power plant. Ramon Perez of the California Highway Patrol told the Desert Sun ...

Parts like pumps, valves, reactor vessel heads and steam generators have been replaced at STP. Nuclear power plants spent $6.5 billion in 2009 replacing parts and equipment for modifications, he said.

The South Texas Project nuclear power plant, located about 60-miles southwest of Galveston, Texas, said on Saturday it continued to run at full power throughout Hurricane Ike.

If you aren't anti-nuclear by disposition (or education) and weren't around to witness the intimidation of federal inspectors, explosive construction faux pas, and wild cost-overruns that marked ...

Crews will replace 256 of the 764 nuclear fuel assemblies in the reactor core with new fuel. The biennual fuel outages allow all fuel to be replaced on a rotating schedule every six years.

Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, is getting a new supercomputer, Aurora, which its scientists will use to study optimal nuclear reactor designs.As of now, the lab is using a system ...

STP Nuclear Operating Co.'s 1,280-megawatt Unit 2 at the South Texas nuclear power station in Texas shut by early Monday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report.

Workers at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the northeastern coast of Japan have been struggling to keep reactors there from overheating. The troubles began March 11, when a massive ...

Nuclear power is a low-carbon source of energy, because unlike coal, oil or gas power plants, nuclear power plants practically do not produce CO 2 during their operation. Nuclear reactors generate ...

The reactors were brought online in August 1988 and June 1989. The facility is operated by STPNOC and owned by NRG Texas (44%), CPS Energy (40%) and Austin Energy (16%). Construction of the two new ...