Plant Vogtle's new nuclear reactors will require a new generation of operators who are being trained at an unusual facility in Burke County.

...disagreeable ? a quality that, alone, makes him an attractive choice for this commission. His experience as a nuclear reactor operator on a sub taught him how to be colorblind and responsible to a tight-knit community of submariners.He's bullish...

...prepared licensing tests contributed to an unusually high failure rate last year among Plant Vogtle's 2011 class of reactor operators, according to company officials."We see this as an isolated case," said Tom Tynan, Southern Nuclear's Plant...

...Any communication between the reactor operators and the system is heavily restricted...Oconee Nuclear Station's reactor operators have spent months training on...said Jeff Hekking, a senior reactor operator who helped test the new system...

...to run less safely to prolong operations. As equipment has approached or violated safety limits, regulators and reactor operators have loosened or bent the rules.Last year, the NRC weakened the safety margin for acceptable radiation damage...

...ongoing concern about the MOX project has been the slow progress in securing agreements from commercial nuclear power reactor operators willing to use fuel rods made with plutonium.Tennessee Valley Authority, which today remains the most promising...

...Nuclear to explain why an unusually high number of reactor operators failed their initial licensing tests at Plant Vogtle...discuss corrective actions that could improve the reactor operator training programs and the passing rate on initial...

...a son of the late Thomas and Lilly Mae Barnett Brock. He was a resident of Aiken since 1951, and was a nuclear reactor operator for E.I. DuPont at the Savannah River Plant. He also served in the US Navy during WWII, was a member of the...

...a son of the late Thomas and Lilly Mae Barnett Brock. He was a resident of Aiken since 1951, and was a nuclear reactor operator for E.I. DuPont at the Savannah River Plant. He also served in the US Navy during WWII, was a member of the...

...reactors is dangerous and unnecessary, because immobilization could be used to dispose of all the plutonium. "Whether reactor operators will accept the kind of fuel that is manufactured is not a settled question," said Arjun Makhijani, president...