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Premiere Scraps Plans for New Reactors in Ontario
Source: NewsThe head of Ontario's provincial government has set aside plans to build two new reactors, saying the current demand for power does not justify the expense.…
U.K. Aims for GE-Hitachi ABWR Approval in 2017
Source: NewsOn Wednesday, regulators in the U.K. offered an update on their generic design assessment of the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor marketed by GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy. Based…
Offline Inspection Finds Potential Coolant Leak at Palo Verde Reactor
Source: NewsInspections during a routine outage revealed evidence of a potential leak in the reactor pressure vessel of Palo Verde unit 3. Visual checks Sunday turned up…
Problems During Restart Trip Oyster Creek Reactor for Second Time in Three Days
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsOperators began powering up Exelon's Oyster Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey Sunday only to shut it down because of a problem with the condenser. At…
Hanford News: URS Whistleblower Laid Off, Report Finds Fault With Vit Plant Documentation
Source: NewsURS Corp. has laid off an engineer who raised concerns about the safety of a vitrification plant under construction at Hanford that has since stalled because…
Areva Opens New U.S. Headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.
Topics: Industry & BusinessSource: NewsFrench nuclear firm Areva officially opened its new U.S. headquarters last week after moving its corporate offices from suburban Washington, D.C., to North Carolina. Executives and…
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Source: NewsOver the last week, workers have confronted another leaking tank, a partial shutdown of nitrogen injection equipment and a glitch in a water treatment system at…
V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant Construction Exec Leaves for SMR Developer Generation mPower
Source: NewsA small modular reactor developer has hired a new chief operating offer who previously oversaw the contract to build two new reactors at the V.C. Summer…
Energy Department, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Contend With Government Shutdown
Source: NewsThe government shutdown prompted this week by the failure of Congress to pass a fiscal year 2014 budget has kept employees home across the federal workforce,…
Bangladesh Breaks Ground for First Nuclear Plant
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NewsBangladesh has formally begun work on its first nuclear power plant. The heads of Rosatom subsidiary NIAEP and the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission signed a construction…
Westinghouse To Take Part in Spanish Nuclear Waste Project
Source: NewsWestinghouse announced a multimillion-dollar contract with Spanish regulators Tuesday to help build an interim storage site for spent fuel and other nuclear waste. Under the deal,…
Jellyfish Force Shutdown at Swedish Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsA mass of jellyfish has threatened to clog the water intake at a reactor in Sweden, forcing the plant offline. OKG, a consortium of EON and…
Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant Shut Down to Fix Turbine Speed Controller
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsOperators took New Jersey's Oyster Creek nuclear plant offline Monday to repair equipment in its turbine. Quoting a statement from plant owner Exelon, the Newark Star-Ledger…
Fines Issued for Workplace Fatality at Arkansas Nuclear One
Source: NewsThe Department of Labor has issued $175,000 in fines to several companies involved in an accident that took the life of a worker at Arkansas Nuclear…
Canada Finalizes Nuclear Export Deal With India
Source: NewsCanada and India finalized a nuclear cooperation agreement last week, opening Canada's sizeable uranium industry to one of the world's fastest-growing markets for nuclear power. Canada…
Babcock & Wilcox-Led Consortium Loses Challenge to Y-12/Pantex Contract Process
Source: NewsAs the National Nuclear Security Administration reevaluates contractors' proposals to run its Y-12 and Pantex sites, a Babcock & Wilcox-led consortium has lost a legal protest…
With Treatment Facility Stalled, Hanford Offers New Waste Strategy
Source: NewsOn Tuesday, the Department of Energy floated a series of ideas to speed the removal of tank waste from the Hanford site before completion of treatment…
Water Case Brings out Supporters and Foes of Proposed Utah Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsBlue Castle Holdings is making the case that a new nuclear plant in Utah is both necessary and feasible during a court proceeding this week that…
FirstEnergy Planning Steam Generator, Pressure Vessel Head Replacement at Beaver Valley 2
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsOn Tuesday, FirstEnergy told federal regulators it has scheduled a major overhaul of unit 2 at the Beaver Valley nuclear plant for 2017. The outage will…
Regulators Again Point to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Faulty Modeling of San Onofre Steam Generators
Source: NewsFaulting software errors by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, federal regulators have determined the steam generator design flaws that ultimately shuttered the San Onofre nuclear plant likely amounted…