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A combination of “wholesale market flaws” and delusional granola politics combined to produce a squeeze play that forced Entergy to cease operations on 12/29/14 at the 602 MW BWR after 42 years of operation. The plant produced 72% of the electricity...

Crews at the Dresden Generating Station in Morris, IL, have been working to secure a leak of tritiated water detected over the weekend. Tritiated water is a radioactive form of water where the usual hydrogen atoms end up replaced with tritium. Sampling...

Around the turn of the century, Entergy took a flyer on older, low-cost nuclear units to bid into new competitive wholesale markets. Facing pressure from cheap gas and unanticipated political challenges, the company now grapples with disentangling itself...

On Feb. 11, 1985, the cover page of Forbes thundered, “The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale.…” Fourteen months later, reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl...

The road to the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant winds through Georgia pines, past the massive International Paper mill where many trees meet their end, and on toward the Savannah River, which forms the border with South Carolina. A couple of...