While un-retiring plants and building new nuclear have been trending topics in the power industry recently, another strategy may be a cheaper alternative: maximizing the output of existing plants.

A nuclear power plant in Calvert County is on a short list of sites that could become the location of the first nuclear energy reactor to be built in the United States in 30 years. The Calvert Cliffs ...

Unit 2 at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Maryland suddenly shut down late May 8. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was notified on May 9. The reactor automatically tripped around ...

At 4 a.m. March 28, 1979, the main pumps feeding water to a cooling system at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station failed. The resulting chain of events became the largest nuclear disaster in ...

The proposed third reactor at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant has received Maryland's final approval. In an order made public Monday, the state's Public Service Commission affirmed a hearing ...

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved an uprate of 1.4% of both Units 1 and 2 at Constellation's Calvert Cliff nuclear power plant in Maryland. The regulator determined that ...

LUSBY, Md. (AP) — Constellation Energy Nuclear Group says it has shut down one of two reactors at its Calvert Cliffs plant in southern Maryland after a malfunction caused a drop in power generation. A ...

LUSBY, Maryland — An alert system for a Maryland nuclear power plant is going to be tested on Dec. 4 at noon, and may be heard by residents in parts of St. Mary's, Calvert and Dorchester counties.