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DOE Awards $5.1M To Advance Electron-Beam Welding
Source: NewsThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced an award of $5.1 million granted to the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) to develop modular-in-chamber electron…
Japanese Nuclear Fuel Imports Staggered In 2019
Source: NewsJapanese imports of nuclear fuels has plummeted in recent years, dropping to “close to zero,” one of the country’s top newspapers said.
Regulator Releases Report On Flamanville Site
Source: NewsASN, the French nuclear safety authority, has posted on line the report of the pre-OSART (pre-operational safety review team) mission which was conducted from 17 June…
Construction Milestone At Rooppur NPP Site
Source: NewsWork on the erection and concreting of the reactor building inner containment third layer sections of Rooppur NPP power unit No.1 in Bangladesh has been completed,…
SNC-Lavalin To Design Inspection Tool For Darlington NPP
Source: NewsSNC-Lavalin said this week that it has signed a contract for design, fabrication and deployment of the newly developed PRECISE (Pressure Tube Circumferential Sampling Equipment) tool…
GE Steam Power To Service Two Ukrainian Plants
Source: NewsU.S. nuclear serve industry firm GE Steam Power, which services around 100 nuclear plant outages per year, announced this week that it has been selected by…
MOX Fuel Ready For Beloyarsk Fast Breeder Plant
Source: NewsThe first complete reloading of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for Russia’s BN-800 fast reactor at unit 4 of the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant has been manufactured…
Partnership Formed To Increase Isotope Production in Canada
Source: NewsCanadian electricity company Bruce Power said Tuesday that it had joined forces with Isogen and BWXT ITG Canada, Inc. (BWXT) in an effort to advance a…
Barakah Unit Two Construction Completed
Source: NewsThe Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) in Abu Dhabi said Wednesday that construction at Unit 2 of the four-unit Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant has been completed.
Darlington Unit 2 Overhaul Is Done
Source: NewsA thorough refurbishment of Unit 2 at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station has been completed and the unit is now reconnected to Ontario’s electricity grid. Ontario Power…
First Fuel Load Completed At Tianwan 5
Source: NewsThe China National Nuclear Corporation said this week it had achieved a significant milestone with the completion of first-time fuel loading for Unit 5 at the…
Drilling Specialist To Explore South Bruce For Potential Canadian Repository
Source: NewsCanada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected an Ontario-based environmental and engineering company to drill and test initial boreholes as part of site selection for a…
Congressional Climate Report Sees Role For Nuclear
Source: NewsA U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis report released this week said that existing nuclear power plants are a valuable source of carbon-free energy…
GA-EMS To Bring Radiation Monitoring System To Millstone
Source: NewsGeneral Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) said Tuesday that it has been awarded a contract from Dominion Energy to deliver Radiation Monitoring Systems for the Millstone Power…
Flushing Begun At Belarus NPP Unit 2
Source: NewsTechnicians in Belarus have started flushing of active and passive safety systems with the open reactor at Unit 2 of Belarus NPP (the general designer and…
Rosatom, GE And Framatome Sign MOU
Source: NewsRosatom announced the signing of a Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with Framatome SAS (France) and GE Steam Power of the United States to cooperate in finding…
DOE Awards $65 Million In Research Prizes
Source: NewsThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said Tuesday that more than $65 million in nuclear energy research awards geared mostly toward university-led projects taking place in…
Digital I&C System Installed At Doel NPP
Source: NewsThe new digital instrumentation and control (I&C) systems at the Doel nuclear power plant in Belgium passed the final site acceptance test (SAT), French service company…
Rosatom Notes Construction Milestone At Kursk NPP-2
Source: NewsThe cantilever truss, the second piece of the ‘melt trap’, with the weight of 145 tons and the diameter of over 9 meters, has been installed…
Westinghouse Teams With Guardhat For Digital Systems
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company and Guardhat announced Tuesday that they will deliver the first connected worker solution to the nuclear energy industry.