by Emily | May 8, 2025 | Clean Energy News, Education, Nuclear
Energy Northwest Photo Last month, Energy Northwest operators successfully disconnected Columbia Generating Station from the power grid. This was the beginning of its biennial spring refueling outage, which is scheduled to last for 56 days. The outage allows operators...
by Emily | Apr 3, 2025 | Clean Energy News, Nuclear
The AP300 Small Modular Reactor (Photo: Business Wire) With the promise of newer, cheaper nuclear power on the horizon, U.S. states are vying to position themselves to build and supply the industry’s next generation as policymakers consider expanding subsidies and...
by Emily | Mar 27, 2025 | Clean Energy News, Nuclear
TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque, right, spoke with Joe Fain, president and CEO of the Bellevue Chamber, at a luncheon event hosted by the chamber. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Late last week, the Bellevue Chamber hosted a luncheon and fireside chat with TerraPower,...
by Emily | Mar 20, 2025 | Clean Energy News, Nuclear
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Credit: DOE) Five months after announcing a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Microsoft to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 and launch the Crane Clean Energy Center (CECC), Constellation provided updates on hiring and site...
by Emily | Feb 13, 2025 | Clean Energy News, Nuclear
Nuclear power station with steaming cooling towers and blooming canola field. Location: Lower Saxony, Germany. Arizona Public Service (APS), Salt River Project (SRP) and Tucson Electric Power (TEP) announced earlier this month that they’ll be working together to...
by Emily | Nov 13, 2024 | Clean Energy News, Nuclear
The U.S. just set new deployment targets at the U.N. climate summit (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan: Add 35 GW of new capacity by 2035 and achieve a sustained pace of 15 GW per year by 2040. The framework identifies more than 30 actions the U.S. government can take, along...
