A unit of Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant will be restarted as part of a new energy-sharing agreement with ...

The Bureau of Reclamation opens bids for the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant. The contract is awarded to Six Companies, a construction and engineering firm made up of some of ...

In the early part of the 20th century, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation began an ambitious project that entailed constructing a ...

Private owners, state and local governments, and public utilities own and manage the overwhelming majority of U.S. dams.

Take in views of Lake Mead, the Hoover Dam and the Colorado River on this ... views from the observation deck before descending to the Power Plant. Guides from the Bureau of Reclamation will ...

Thankfully, Nevada generates power in several different ways and does not rely solely on hydropower from the Hoover Dam. In fact, hydropower is the third-largest way the state generates ...

Hoover Dam, in addition to being ... His design emphasized the power exuded by the structure. Kaufmann redesigned the dam’s powerhouse at its base with shiny horizontal aluminum fins for ...

When completed, the dam will be the 10th largest in the world and will have 13 turbines that could produce 5 gigawatts of electricity — 2½ times as much as Hoover Dam. The river flows over the ...

An "adrenalin junkie" from north Wales has been fined by police in America after swimming across the Colorado River at the Hoover Dam. Arron Hughes ... a dip'," he said. Turbines close to where ...

On a scorching August day in southwestern Indiana, the giant Gibson generating station is running flat out. Its five 180-foot-high (54.9-meter-high) boilers are gulping 25 tons (22.7 metric tons ...

Hoover Dam Powerplant: Located 530 feet below Black Canyon's surface, this power plant is where you'll find the dam's 17 generators, plus a tunnel drilled in the 1930s and a platform that sits on ...