NRC, Army Corps to Take Public Comments on Draft Environmental Report for...
(Source: NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission) No: I-15-026 May 21, 2015 CONTACT: Diane Screnci 610-337-5330 Neil Sheehan 610-337-5331 NRC, Army Corps to Take Public Comments on Draft Environmental...
View Article12k gallons of diesel siphoned in four counties lead to arrest, police say
The lead suspect in the theft of more than $50,000 worth of diesel fuel, in a scheme spanning 18 months and four counties, was arraigned on 20 felony charges Monday. Gregory L. Sportelli, 55, of the...
View ArticleBB&T closing two branches, cutting 87 jobs in Lehigh Valley
BB&T Corp. says it is closing and consolidating two Lehigh Valley branches as part of its acquisition of National Penn Bancshares Inc. The company also announced Tuesday 241 job losses, including...
View ArticleSusquehanna Nuclear Unit 1 Automatically Shut Down
BERWICK, Pa., June 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- At 3:28 p.m., on Thursday, June 8, 2017, Unit 1 at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Luzerne County Pennsylvania automatically shut down. The cause of...
View ArticleNUREG-2195 Consequential SGTR Analysis for Westinghouse and Combustion...
(Source: NRC - US Nuclear Regulatory Commission) This NUREG-series publication has been issued for public comment. Comments will be accepted until August 8, 2016. To submit comments, please see Docket...
View ArticlePPL Electric customers to see $7.55 monthly hike, under proposed settlement
We are in the midst of game-changing improvements in the quality of service for our customers." PPL Electric Utilities customers would pay more, though not as much as the company had hoped, under a...
View ArticleDominion Virginia Power bringing reactor on line
Dominion Virginia Power was preparing to bring one of its North Anna Power Station’s nuclear reactors back on line Wednesday after making repairs to a leaking coolant drain...
View ArticlePPL Electric customers to see $7.55 monthly hike, under proposed settlement...
(Source: EAP - Energy Association of Pennsylvania) PPL Electric Utilities customers would pay more, though not as much as the company had hoped, under a proposed settlement in a rate case before the...
View ArticleTalen Energy posts profit in first quarterly earnings report (EAP - Energy...
(Source: EAP - Energy Association of Pennsylvania) Talen Energy Corp.'s first quarterly earnings as a stand-alone company stood out fairly well, the company CEO reported Tuesday. The Allentown-based...
View ArticlePower failure triggers emergency shutdown at Pa. nuclear reactor
A power failure at the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station nuclear plant triggered an emergency shutdown early Friday morning. Operators of the Luzerne County nuclear plant,...
View ArticleSusquehanna-Roseland power line, a $1.4 billion project, switched on (EAP -...
(Source: EAP - Energy Association of Pennsylvania) The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area is seen in this undated photo looking west from Kittatinny Ridge in New Jersey down the...
View ArticleA year after KAPS-1 heavy water leak, corrosion spots found: AERB
A year after heavy water leaked from the coolant channel in unit I of the Gujarat-based Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS-1), preliminary investigations have found corrosion spots on the channel’s...
View ArticleUnit 2 at Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant Begins Scheduled Refueling Outage
BERWICK, Pa., March 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Operators at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant, a wholly owned subsidiary of Talen Energy Corporation, disconnected the Unit 2 reactor from the electrical...
View ArticleUnit 1 reactor at Susquehanna Nuclear Plant shuts down
BERWICK, Pa., Nov. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Unit 1 at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant automatically shut down at approximately 11:32 a.m. this morning (11/12/15) based on the designed activation of...
View ArticleTalen selling Lake Wallenpaupack, 2 other power plants
Allentown-based Talen Energy is selling Lake Wallenpaupack and two other Pennsylvania power plants, the company said. The sales of the lake in the Poconos -- actually a hydroelectric plant -- and two...
View ArticleKakrapar plant leak exposes 'mysterious' chink in armour
By Pallava Bagla NEW DELHI: The nuclear leak at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) continues unabated more than a week later at the indigenously made 220-megawatt nuclear reactor in southern...
View ArticleTalen Energy laying off 131 workers at Pennsylvania sites
BERWICK, Pa. (AP) — Talen Energy plans to cut 53 jobs at a central Pennsylvania nuclear power plant, and dozens of other...
View ArticleSusquehanna's Unit 1 Returned to Service
BERWICK, Pa., June 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Unit 1 at Talen Energy's Susquehanna nuclear plant in Luzerne County, Pa., resumed generating safe, carbon-free electricity for the regional power grid on...
View ArticleSusquehanna Unit 1 Reconnected to Power Grid
BERWICK, Pa., Nov. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Operators at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant reconnected Unit 1 to the regional power grid Thursday night (11/19). The Unit 1 reactor shut down...
View ArticlePPL Request for Transfer of Susquehanna Nuclear Plant Licenses Approved by...
ALLENTOWN, Pa., April 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday (4/10) approved PPL Susquehanna's request for indirect transfer of control of the operating licenses for...
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