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Kursk II Site Receives Reactor Pressure Vessel
Source: NewsIt was a long trip and a move-over load, but Russian nuclear power corporation Rosatom said this week the “atomic heart” of the future Kursk II…
ATF Fuel Test Loaded At Rostov NPP
Source: NewsThe first Russian-made fuel bundles with experimental ATF fuel rods (Advanced Technology Fuel) have been loaded into VVER-1000 reactor core at the power unit 2 of…
Cameco, X-energy To Collaborate on SMR
Source: NewsCanadian uranium producer Cameco and U.S. fuel and plant engineering firm X-energy announced they have entered a non-binding and non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding to explore possible…
Illinois Passes Energy Bill, Forestalls Closures
Source: NewsAn eleventh-hour vote in the Illinois capital kept Exelon Generation’s hand away from the off switch on two nuclear power plants Tuesday, as the state Senate…
NRC Approves Interim Spent Fuel Site In Texas
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it had issued a license to Interim Storage Partners LLC to construct and operate a consolidated interim storage facility for spent…
Rosatom Training Egyptians On NPP Operations
Source: NewsRussian nuclear corporation Rosatom said this week that the first group of Egyptian technicians began training at the St. Petersburg branch of Rosatom’s Technical Academy in…
Energoatom Inspects V.C. Summer Parts
Source: NewsCall it the year’s most extraordinary yard sale. In a recent working trip to the United States, the head of Ukraine’s National Nuclear Energy Generating Company…
Metsamor Unit 2 Reactor Undergoes Annealing Process
Source: NewsFor the first time, unique work was carried out at the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant on the recovery annealing of the plant's Unit 2 PWR-440 reactor…
Pressure Vessel For Akkuyu 3 Underway
Source: NewsVolgodonsk Branch of JSC AEM-technology, part of the engineering division of “Rosatom” State Corporation called Atomenergomash, has started long-cycle operation to manufacture the bottom of the…
NuScale, Energoatom of Ukraine Sign MOU
Source: NewsNuScale Power and the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine (Energoatom) announced Wednesday that the two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to…
CAES Opens New Reactor Simulator Lab
Source: NewsThe Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) announced the opening of its newest laboratory, the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Simulator Laboratory, featuring NuScale Power’s Energy Exploration…
Congressman Asks Biden For Two-Plant Rescue
Source: NewsA Republican congressman from Illinois, Adam Kinzinger, has sent a letter to the Oval Office urging President Biden to evoke emergency powers to support two nuclear…
Pact In Place For IMSR Fuel Development
Source: NewsNuclear service provider Westinghouse, the UK National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), and Terrestrial Energy have signed an agreement for nuclear fuel development with the aim of supplying…
Akkuyu Unit 4 Pit Construction Has Begun
Source: NewsEarthmoving preparations for the construction of Unit 4 are underway at the site of Akkuyu NPP, the first nuclear power plant in Turkey. The works are…
Rooppur Unit 2 Heavy Components Delivered
Source: NewsThe reactor vessel and four steam generators for Unit 2 of Rooppur nuclear power plant have been delivered to Bangladesh, Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom said Tuesday.
Oak Ridge Lab Receives EnCore Fuel Rods
Source: NewsNuclear services provider Westinghouse said that the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee had received several of its irradiated EnCore nuclear fuel rods for a year…
Taishan 1 Offline For Repairs/Investigation
Source: NewsChina General Nuclear has taken the newly commissioned Taishan Unit 1 offline to study and repair issues involving damaged cladding in about five of its fuel…
Rooppur 1 Dome Set In Place
Source: NewsInstallation of metal structures for the inner containment dome has been completed in the power unit No. 1 reactor building at the Rooppur NPP construction site…
Exelon Files Byron And Dresden Decommissioning Plans
Source: NewsExelon Generation, owner and operator of the Byron and Dresden nuclear energy facilities, announced Wednesday that it would file Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activity Reports (PSDARs) today…
Hot Testing Begun For Belarus NPP Unit 2
Source: NewsTechnicians have begun hot functional testing at the Russian-built Unit 2 of the Belarus Nuclear Power Plant, nuclear power giant Rosatom has announced.