BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- At 9:06 a.m. ET, while plant workers were performing equipment maintenance, Plant Vogtle Unit 1 automatically shut down. All Plant Vogtle safety systems ...

Westinghouse Electric Co. is taking another step on the road to scaling up the production of its AP1000 modular reactor.

Westinghouse has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to renew and update the design certification for its AP1000 reactor, formally proposing Vogtle Unit 4’s as‑built configuration as the new ...

Westinghouse Electric Company said April 6 it has submitted an updated design document for its AP1000 nuclear reactor to ...

Westinghouse Electric Company has submitted Revision 20 of the AP1000 ® Design Control Document (DCD) to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which establishes Plant Vogtle Unit 4 as the ...