nuclear power
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One of two reactors at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in southern Maryland was shut down again Tuesday, the second unplanned outage in the past two weeks. - Robert M. Douglass, who had been chief engineer of Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.'s Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant, died Monday from cancer at his Port Republic home. He was 88.
- One of two reactors at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in southern Maryland shut down suddenly Wednesday after an as-yet unexplained malfunction, a Constellation spokesman said.
- Nuclear power is not the answer to our energy needs
- With the U.S. atomic industry stalled, the government should ease the way for companies to do business abroad
- President Barack Obama has named an Annapolis man to head the multibillion-dollar grant program through which the Federal Emergency Management Agency helps local governments prepare for disasters.
- President Barack Obama has named an Annapolis man to head the multibillion-dollar grant program through which the Federal Emergency Management Agency helps local governments prepare for disasters.
- Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Roy C. Clendaniel Jr. has graduated from the U.S. Navy's Nuclear Power School at Naval Nuclear Power Training Command in Goose Creek, S.C
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission upheld a decision Monday preventing a French company from building a third reactor at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Southern Maryland, but it offered a glimmer of hope to the project's proponents.
- I know this story may be hard to believe, but the Governor wants to construct 40 wind turbines that are 80 stories high (think: Baltimore's tallest building) and 20 miles out in the ocean.
- Nuclear is too dangerous and polluting to compete with green energy
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- Environmentalists need to admit that we can't fight climate change with turbines
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- A Calvert County judge brushed aside a potential legal hurdle to exporting liquefied natural gas via the Chesapeake Bay, ruling that Dominion, the Richmond, Va.-based energy company, does not need the Sierra Club's permission to convert its LNG import terminal at Cove Point.
- Harold Newton Barr, a Baltimore resident and former Army radio operator who announced from a schoolhouse in Germany the death of Adolf Hitler, died at his home Dec. 22 of natural causes.
- The Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant shut down one of its reactors Tuesday after employees at the Southern Maryland facility detected problems with a control rod.
- In New York and Maryland, officials are being forced to choose between a high-cost material that would require a switch to black-and-white photos, and a cheaper material that better matches strapped resources. Both are regarded as secure, though the former is favored by some in the security field.
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- Margaret N. Metz, a retired Harford County educator and world traveler, died Sunday from complications of a stroke at her Bel Air home. She was 80.
- UniStar seeks NRC review of its Calvert Cliffs reactor rejection
- A proposed new reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in southern Maryland faces a major new roadblock, with federal regulators threatening to shelve the troubled $9.6 billion project unless the French-controlled developer comes up with a U.S. partner in the next two months.
- Federal regulators on Thursday denied a license to the French-controlled operator of a proposed third nuclear reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Southern Maryland, giving the company 60 days to find a U.S. partner before terminating proceedings on the project entirely.
- Operators of the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in southern Maryland have shut down one of the two reactors there because a control rod unexpectedly dropped into the reactor core, causing a reduction in power generation, a plant spokesman said Monday.
- As part of its 32nd summer season, McBride Gallery presents a solo exhibit honoring plein air impressionist painter Bill Schmidt. The exhibit, featured in the annual Annapolis Summer Salon shows, runs July 8-29. The Rockville-based artist for 25 years has displayed his work at McBride Gallery.
- A giant transformer scheduled to be taken over Harford County highways from Havre de Grace to Delta, Pa., the next three nights, has arrived in Maryland and was unloaded from a barge at a quarry on the shore of the Susquehanna River to start its journey north.
- The State Highway Administration (SHA), Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA), the Maryland State Police (MSP) and Harford County government are assisting Exelon Corporation with the oversized vehicle transport beginning Monday night, June 25 and ending Thursday night, June 28. A specially designed oversized vehicle will haul a 481,000-pound transformer from Havre de Grace to Exelon's Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station in Delta, Pa.
- Proposed dog park for Columbia is good idea, despite objections from nearby residents
- Q&A with Helen Delich Bentley, who believes U.S. lost upper hand in merchant shipping by not pursuing nuclear-powered commercial vessels like the N/S Savannah.
- Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, who broke the color barrier at the Naval Academy and was its first African-American graduate in 1949, died Tuesday of cancer at Springhouse of Silver Spring Assisted Living. He was 85.
- Any job, except teaching positions, that came open in the Harford County public school system, had to be advertised before they were filled, the school board voted 25 years ago this week.
- The "algal turf scrubber" is a long wooden sluiceway through which harbor water is pumped over a bed of slimy green algae that strips nutrients, suspended sediment and carbon from water and inject oxygen into it before returning it to the harbor.
- Algae 'scrubber' tackles harbor pollution; advocates see large-scale installation helping clean Chesapeake Bay
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- Emergency deputy manager says federal inspectors found no deficiencies in response
- Nuclear energy's promise is one of energy independence, but the cost of making a mistake, well that's a real problem.
- Atomic plant has biannual test of its emergency preparedness
- Maryland's congressional leaders should take a stand for peace
- More than three dozen students and educators from Japan are visiting Arundel High in Gambrills for a one-week cultural exchange.
- No more Fukushimas: One year after the Japanese disaster, the fact is that U.S. nuclear plants still face similar risks
- Constellation Energy Group, which is selling itself to Exelon Corp., reported Friday a loss in the fourth quarter in what is expected to be the energy giant's last earnings release as a publicly traded Baltimore company.
- Federal regulators have declined to impose a civil penalty against Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant after determining that an unspecified security violation had taken place at the facility.
- Maryland energy regulators are expected Friday to issue a decision on the proposed sale of Constellation Energy Group to Chicago-based Exelon Corp.
