NEWS
By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun | January 4, 2012
The state Board of Public Works gave its unanimous approval Wednesday to a wetlands dredging permit for a company that hopes to build a third nuclear reactor at the Calvert Cliffs power plant in Southern Maryland, even though the project is far from getting off the ground. The board granted the permit to UniStar Operating Services LLC after being told approval would help the company secure the licensing, financing and U.S.-based partner it would need to get the stalled project moving.
BUSINESS
Jay Hancock | October 15, 2011
Three years ago, Constellation Energy boss Mayo Shattuck signed up a huge French electricity company to save his job. By now, he may be wondering whether the deal was worth it. Owned mostly by the French government, EDF Group first clashed with Constellation about developing a new nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Southern Maryland. Then it publicly threatened Shattuck in a stare-down over a financial option worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Now it's trying to bust up Constellation's $7.9 billion agreement to merge with Chicago-based Exelon Corp.
BUSINESS
Jay Hancock | September 6, 2011
Don't worry, the folks who operate nuclear power plants near Baltimore told us after a Japanese earthquake caused meltdowns and large radioactivity releases there. We don't have severe earthquakes on the East Coast. That proposition got tested Aug. 23, when the 5.8-magnitude quake centered in Virginia rattled buildings as far north as Toronto. The closest nuclear plant to Baltimore is Exelon Corp.'s Peach Bottom facility on the Susquehanna River, 45 miles away. Peach Bottom is built to withstand ground movement equal to an earthquake registering 6.1 on the Richter scale, Exelon said in April, after the Japan catastrophe.
FEATURES
By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun | August 31, 2011
Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Southern Maryland is due for closer scrutiny by federal regulators after unspecified security lapses discovered there earlier this year. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has finalized a "greater than green" finding of security deficiencies spotted during a special inspection from January to July of this year, according to a letter released Wednesday. The agency has not disclosed the nature of the problems, saying that releasing such information might help someone to attack or sabotage the twin-reactor plant in Lusby in Calvert County.
NEWS
By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun | August 28, 2011
Workers at Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant in Southern Maryland were working Sunday afternoon to bring a reactor online after it was shut down late Saturday when a piece of debris tossed by heavy winds from Hurricane Irene damaged a transformer. Spokesman Mark Sullivan said "Unit 1" remains off-line while workers inspect the transformer and ensure it is in "safe and workable condition. " A second reactor was working fine at 100 percent power, and the plant remains stable, Sullivan said.
BUSINESS
By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun | June 23, 2011
Constellation Energy Group's nuclear venture partner is asking Maryland energy regulators to be a party in the case examining the proposed merger between the Baltimore company and Chicago-based Exelon Corp. In a petition filed Thursday with the Maryland Public Service Commission, French utility EDF Group said its "interests are unique and will be affected by the proposed transaction which implicates significant issues related to reliability. " EDF owns nearly half of Constellation's nuclear power business, which operates plants in New York and two Calvert Cliffs units in Southern Maryland.