Allison Macfarlane, the Chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced that she will resign her post effective January 1st, 2015, and will take a position at George Washington University. Macfarlane was initially sworn into position in 2012 after the resignation of former Chairman Jaczko. In June 2013, Chairman Macfarlane was nominated and […]
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined to renew the operating licenses for the Unit 1 and Unit 2 reactors at the Limerick Generating Station in Pennsylvania, for 20 additional years of operation. In September, the NRC published its report which concluded that the potential environmental impacts of operation wouldn’t preclude license renewal. The […]
Over the weekend a contract worker at the Cooper nuclear power plant in Nebraska dropped a 14 foot control rod blade onto the nuclear reactor core during refueling operations. Workers were replacing the control rod blades using a crane, when a control rod blade fell from the lifting tool fell on top of the reactor […]
A Duke Energy supervisor at the Catawba nuclear power plant in South Carolina was determined to be in violation of the Fitness for Duty Policy. The licensee suspended the supervisor’s access to the plant. Source: NRC Event Notifications