Emergency siren tests happening at 2 Pennsylvania power stations this week
Pennsylvania officials are warning Chester County residents that two major power stations are testing their emergency warning sirens on June 2 and June 4.
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Pennsylvania officials are warning Chester County residents that two major power stations are testing their emergency warning sirens on June 2 and June 4.
Constellation Energy announced a 20-year deal involving the restart of the plant's Unit 1 reactor, which was shut down half a decade ago.
New Jersey voters may get the chance in November to weigh in on whether new power plants that burn fossil fuels should be banned.
Ukrainian officials ordered thousands of people to evacuate and accused Russia of unleashing the "largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades."
Xcel Energy says it will start to power down its nuclear plant in Monticello several weeks earlier than planned after more radioactive water leaked out of the facility.
The nuclear power plant in South Jersey will be sounding its alert sirens this evening and officials want residents to know it is not an emergency.
Though the odds are extremely remote, Pennsylvania nuclear reactors, including those near Lancaster and Beaver Creek, could be vulnerable to radiation leaks if their power were knocked out for days, an Associated Press investigation has found.
In just the last four days, Montgomery County officials have handed out more than double the number of potassium iodide pills that they handed out in all of last year.
"Radiation affects most of the cells that are reproducing rapidly -- your gastrointestinal tract, your bone marrow cell. Another effect is on our genetic make-up, birth defects," Dr. Curtis Miyamoto explains.
The Limerick nuclear power plant in Montgomery County will get a closer look from government regulators to see whether it's at risk from seismic activity.
