(Bloomberg) Exelon Corp., parent company of Baltimore Gas and Electric, cleared a regulatory hurdle in a bid to charge customers extra to keep its R.E. Ginna nuclear plant in upstate New York operating. The New York Public Service Commission voted ...

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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Monday upheld the earlier denial of a license to a French company for a third nuclear reactor at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant.

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ANNAPOLIS — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission can’t issue a license to a French company to build a new nuclear power plant in Maryland as long as the company is completely foreign owned, a panel of judges ruled Thursday. The 29-page ...

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SOLOMONS — Calvert County business owners and nuclear energy advocates support a plan to build a third reactor at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, saying it would help the local economy. The hearing held by the federal Atomic Safety and ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — Dominion Virginia Power is likely to close or convert some of its power stations, as well as open new ones as part of its blueprint to meet growing energy demands in the state, the company said in ...

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Constellation Energy says it activated the lowest of four emergency levels at its Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant following the East Coast quake, but the plant is still operating at 100 percent capacity. Constellation Energy says increased monitoring and inspections ...

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FUKUSHIMA, Japan — On a windy, chilly day near the top of a volcano known as “little Mount Fuji,” the Ryan family of Florida described the fuss at home before they left. “People thought we were crazy,” said Kerry Ryan, ...

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The proposed merger between Constellation Energy Group Inc. and Exelon Corp. is not going to revive efforts to build a new reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant. Exelon Chairman and CEO John W. Rowe said during a conference ...

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Maryland’s only nuclear power plant is fundamentally different from the endangered Fukushima plant in Japan, but what’s happening on the other side of the world could suppress the public’s appetite for more reactors here. The Fukushima plant, damaged by a ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley met again with officials of French utility Electricite de France SA over stalled plans for a third reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in southern Maryland. Constellation Energy Group Inc. announced last year ...

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