PHOENIX – If you hear sirens going off in the far West Valley on Wednesday, don’t worry. It’s only a test of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station emergency warning system. The system’s 70 sirens ...

Arizona Public Service (APS) has notified the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of its intent to renew the operating licenses for all three units at Palo Verde Generating Station, which could ...

It’s no surprise that the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station led the nation in electrical generation in 2014—it has done that for 23 consecutive years—but with a total output of 32.3 million MWh, ...

Palo Verde is the largest nuclear-generating site in the U.S. It has three of the five largest nuclear units in the country, with each pressurized water reactor licensed at almost 4,000 MWth. Like ...

The Blue Palo Verde may be Arizona’s state tree, but don’t let that stop you from transplanting this magnificent specimen into your south Orange County landscapes. The Southwest native will bring an ...

The operating licences of all three units at the Palo Verde nuclear power plant in Arizona have been extended for a further 20 years beyond the original 40-year licence period by the US Nuclear ...

The trio of giant radiation-containment domes, with their 3-foot-thick concrete walls and distinctive shape, would probably strike many people on the outside as the most impressive features of the ...

Reporting from Blythe — In the desert of California, where the Colorado River for decades has turned barren ground into an agricultural bounty, farmers are being paid not to grow crops on a portion of ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the 24 th consecutive year, the APS-operated Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station was the nation’s largest power producer, generating 32.5 million megawatt-hours (MWh) ...