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Trump Tweets Reversal On Yucca Mountain
Source: NewsThe country’s 80,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, stored now in 35 states at 121 sites, will not be headed to Yucca Mountain after all,…
SNC-Lavalin Lands Wolsong Service Contracts
Source: NewsCanadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin said Tuesday it had been awarded four contracts by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd, to conduct assessments and computer code…
Italy Begins Shipments Of Radsludge to Slovakia
Source: NewsThe first of the 33 transports scheduled for the transfer of about 5,600 drums, containing resin and radioactive sludge, started from the Caroso nuclear power plant…
First Iter D-ring Field Coil Completed In Japan
Source: NewsJapanese manufacturers have completed construction of the first 360-metric ton D-shaped toroidal field coil for the ITER Tokamak project in France. The massive field coil will…
Rolls-Royce Targets 2029 For SMR Deployment
Source: NewsThe top technical officer for Britain’s engineering giant Rolls-Royce said this week that the company would focus on small modular reactors, which he expected would be…
Renovations Underway At Oldest U.S. Nuclear Facility
Source: NewsThe Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (EM)said that renovations are underway to prepare a facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to process a…
Ice Wall Coolant Leaks Found At Fukushima
Source: NewsThe Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) has confirmed that coolant is leaking from the pipes that maintain the underground ice wall at the Fukushima Nuclear…
Orano Completes Fuel Transfers To FOAK EOS Canisters
Source: NewsOrano TN has completed the transfer of 296 used nuclear fuel assemblies from a U.S. reactor’s wet storage pool to the onsite dry storage Independent Spent…
Westinghouse Contracted For Kozloduy NPP Project
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company said this week that it had signed a contract with Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Bulgaria to migrate the current Ovation platform-based…
CNL Lands Lingen Decommissioning Contract
Source: NewsCanadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) announced this week that it has been selected as a subcontractor by Atkins Energy Germany GmbH to participate in the decommissioning of…
Rostov Unit 1 Granted License Extension
Source: NewsThe Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service (Rostechnadzor) issued a new license for the right to operate Unit 1 of Rostov NPP, Rosatom has announced.
Clinton Loaded With Accident-Tolerant Fuel
Source: NewsGlobal Nuclear Fuel (GNF) today announced that lead test assemblies utilizing its ARMOR-coated zirconium cladding and IronClad Accident Tolerant Fuel solutions have been installed at Exelon…
Brookhaven Chosen For Electron Collider
Source: NewsThe U.S. Department of Energy said it had chosen the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY, as the site for a planned major new nuclear physics…
NuScale Requests SMR Review In Canada
Source: NewsNuScale Power announced Tuesday it has submitted an application for a pre-licensing vendor design review in Canada for its small nuclear reactor.
Germany Drops Down To Six Active Reactors
Source: NewsGerman utility EnBW has permanently shut down its Philippsburg 2 reactor to comply with the country’s nuclear phase-out plan, putting the company in a position to…
Russian Nuclear Output: 208.7B kWh In 2019
Source: NewsIn 2019, the Russian NPPs set a new record in terms of electric power output – over 208.7 billion kWh
Initial Rotations Of New Leningrad Unit Confirmed
Source: NewsWith the first barring speed of one rotation per minute, Russian utility Rosenergoatom said in late 2019 that technicians had achieved a milestone with the initial…
Fuel Bank Fully Stocked, Says IAEA
Source: NewsThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on December 10, received the second and final shipment of low-enriched uranium (LEU) at a purpose-built facility in Kazakhstan housing…
Construction Contracts Awarded For Fast Neutron Reactor Facility
Source: NewsSiberian Chemical Plant (a subsidiary of TVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM in Seversk, Tomsk region, West Siberia) has signed the contract with Concern Titan-2 engineering company…
Oklo Announces Launch Of Integrated Fission-Renewable Plant
Source: NewsOklo, Inc., a small company in California, this week announced the launch of Aurora, an advanced fission clean energy plant the company says is designed to…