A new virtual control room at the Idaho National Laboratory will help utilities convert old nuclear power plant control rooms running on analogue systems to digital ones. A new virtual control room at ...

The control room is the nerve center of any plant operation: the place where operational personnel makes sure the facility and everything in it runs smoothly, effectively and efficiently. The iconic ...

Control rooms are the nerve center of any power plant. Two recent control room upgrades at U.S. facilities highlight the logistical challenges and solutions to issues that come with improving an ...

There’s something different about the look of some Hanford vitrification plant workers. After 17 years of construction on the massive plant to treat radioactive waste for disposal, some of the workers ...

The control room for the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Facility at the US Department of Energy's Hanford site in Washington State has been commissioned. The facility is one of four major facilities ...

Heather Hoff was working in the control room of the nuclear plant near Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County, Calif., named the Diablo Canyon power plant, during the days when an earthquake caused a ...

Dominion’s 1,346-MW Warren County Generating Station in Virginia uses a 3-on-1 configuration with Mitsubishis Hitachi Power Systems America 501GAC combustion turbines. High-efficiency, combined-cycle, ...

The Fermi 2 nuclear power plant cooling towers. Sam Adler/Daily. Buy this photo. A nuclear power plant probably isn’t what comes to mind when you think of a school field trip. But in anticipation of ...

A diesel hydrotreater and the control room for multiple hydrotreating units at Valero’s VLO.N 380,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) ...