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The POWER Interview: Ensuring Successful Power Plant Decommissioning

Darrell Proctor — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:36:46 +0000

Keith Kotimko is the U.S. Decommissioning and Demolition Leader for WSP, a full-service solution provider that offers comprehensive facility decommissioning and demolition services. Kotimko provided POWER with insight into the process of permanently shutting down a power generation facility. He emphasized that decommissioning is a separate activity from demolition.

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Is it Possible to Turnaround a Turnaround?

Mobideo — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 05:01:04 +0000

By Paul Muir, CRO, Mobideo Why are Turnarounds So Challenging “A large turnaround can include up to 150,000 individual activities. With this level of complexity, approximately half of all shutdown projects are delayed by more than 20% and 80% go over budget by more than 10%. Frequently, the work scope increases unexpectedly by up to […]

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Workers on ‘War Footing’ to Get India Coal Plant Operating

Darrell Proctor — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:24:13 +0000

One of the largest coal-fired power plants in India—beset by technical issues that have knocked it offline and contributed to a power crisis in the Punjab region—is set to resume operations by the end of July, according to the utility subsidiary of the India-based mining company that leads the project. Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd. (TSPL), […]

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After Long History, Paradise Coal Plant Ceases Operation

Aaron Larson — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:58:22 +0000

The generator breaker for Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) Paradise Unit 3 was opened on Feb. 1, removing the coal-fired power plant from service for the final time after 50 years of operation. Notably, TVA retiree Jim Chappell performed the task. Chappell was the electrical control wing operator who originally placed Unit 3 in service. The […]

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A Closer Look at Coal Power Plant Impacts

Aaron Larson — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 05:29:36 +0000

When I see estimates of premature deaths attributable to coal-fired power plants, I usually take the data with a grain of salt. It’s not that I don’t trust researchers to do their best to calculate the

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UAE Set to Start First Nuclear Plant; Sweden, Germany Shut Units

Darrell Proctor — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 18:24:25 +0000

The first nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reportedly will come online in early 2020. The report comes one day after Sweden on Dec. 30 shut down one of four reactors at the nation’s largest nuclear plant, closing Unit 2 at the Ringhals facility after more than 40 years of operation. Germany […]

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Market Conditions Doom Another Nuclear Plant, Palisades, to Closure in 2018

Aaron Larson — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:26:56 +0000

Entergy Corp. has decided to permanently close the Palisades nuclear power plant on October 1, 2018. The news comes as a bit of a surprise, because Entergy had a power purchase agreement with Consumers Energy—Michigan’s largest utility and the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy—which committed the company to buying nearly all of the power generated […]

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Sweet Dreams Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant

Aaron Larson — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:29:50 +0000

After more than 43 years of service, the Fort Calhoun Station—a single-unit 478-MW nuclear power plant, which was the smallest operating reactor in the U.S. fleet—came offline for the final time at 12:55 p.m. CDT on October 24, 2016. Some said the mood at the plant was subdued, but professional. Many workers and other plant […]

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Pilgrim Plagued With More Unplanned Shutdowns

Thomas W. Overton — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:19:41 +0000

The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Massachusetts, limping toward retirement in 2019, suffered yet another unplanned shutdown on September 6 after operators were forced to power down the reactor because of high water levels in the core. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) event report, “operators initiated a manual reactor scram due to high […]

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Seventeen States Sue EPA for Mandating SIP Startup, Shutdown, Malfunction Changes

Sonal Patel — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:43:19 +0000

The attorneys general of 17 states are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for invalidating agency-approved state implementation plans (SIPs) governing emissions from power plant startup, shutdown, and malfunction (SSM) operations. The states have asked a federal court to review the EPA’s June-issued final rule, which deems SIP provisions concerning SSM operations in 36 states […]

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