• Entergy has been given Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval to implement an uprate to 1,443 MW at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Port Gibson, Miss.
• Shaw Group Inc. has the contract for the retrofit, which includes turbine rotors for reactor feed pumps and the high-pressure turbine.
• Entergy says the uprate will add 13% to the plant's capacity and will make it the largest single-unit nuclear station in the U.S.

From the article:

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on July 19 approved a request by Entergy Operations Inc. to increase the power generating capacity of Unit 1 at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station by 15 percent. The power uprate for the boiling water reactor will increase the plant’s power generating capacity from about 1,300 to 1,500 MWe.