The code amendments would allow battery energy storage systems, natural gas power plants, solar energy projects, electrical substations, power lines and small modular nuclear reactors to be ...

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed for a second time the operating licence of the boiling water reactor (BWR) at unit 1 of the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant in Minnesota for an ...

Locally, Democrats in the Minnesota Senate approved legislation the last two years to study new smaller-scale nuclear reactors ... Prairie Island and Monticello nuclear plants into the 2050s.

Russian attacks in November and December came dangerously close to the country’s nuclear power plants, causing five out of its nine operating reactors ... of the turbine hall of a thermal ...

I.F. Stone famously said, “All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” The aphorism applies well to nuclear reactor operators, including Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy.

Electric service isn't expected to be interrupted by the event, a spokesperson said. Officials at the Prairie Island nuclear power plant are investigating what it calls an "unusual event" after a ...

Beyond wind and solar, some data center companies are paying to revive nuclear plants such as Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania or investing in emerging technology for smaller reactors.

The leak originated in "a water pipe between two buildings" at the Monticello nuclear plant.Tritium is a radioactive isotope ... in its history -- the meltdown of the Three Mile Island reactor in ...

Beyond wind and solar, some data center companies are paying to revive nuclear plants such as Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania or investing in emerging technology for smaller reactors ... nearly as ...