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IAEA Course Covers Site Selection For Nuclear Plants
Source: NewsWhat goes into the decision of where to site a nuclear power plant? As you might expect, the short answer to that is “lots.” In addition,…
First Major Component Arrives At Akkuyu Site
Source: NewsThe first large-sized cargo for the Unit 1 – the core catcher – has been delivered at the Akkuyu NPP construction site, Rosatom said this week.
Novovoronezh II, Unit 2, Reaches 100 Percent Power
Source: NewsOn July 31, 2019, at 19:23, the reactor of the innovative Unit 2 of Novovoronezh Phase II for the first time was brought to the design…
Atkins Awarded Basic Design Contract For Sizewell C
Source: NewsAtkins, a member of SNC-Lavalin Group, has been awarded a $6.09 million contract for the Enabling Works Basic Design at the Sizewell C site. It will…
Weld Repairs To Push Flamanville Start Up To 2023
Source: NewsFrench utility EDF has said that ongoing welding problems at Flamanville 3 would push back the start up date until at least early 2023, putting the…
Canadian Nuclear Labs Launches SMR Initiative
Source: NewsClaiming Canada has the world’s ripest market for small modular reactors (SMR) for domestic use, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories said Tuesday that it was launching a new…
NuScale SMR Completes Review Milestones
Source: NewsNuScale Power said Monday that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) had completed the second and third phases of review of the company’s small modular reactor…
NRC Investigates Degraded Paint At Fermi NPP
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched a special inspection at the Fermi nuclear power plant to determine if degraded paint inside a portion of the reactor…
Trump Calls For "Fuller Analysis" Of Uranium Imports
Source: NewsU.S. President Donald Trump has rejected a request by two U.S. mining companies to impose a mandate that would give U.S. miners exclusivity to 25 percent…
CNL Awarded Contract To Refuel SLOWPOKE-2 Reactor
Source: NewsCanadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology organization, announce that it has been awarded an $8.5 million contract by the Government of Canada…
Uzbekistan Says Reactor Needs Have Doubled
Source: NewsUzbekistan’s energy minister has announced a plan to double the amount of electricity generated by nuclear power in the country in the coming years, stating in…
GE Hitachi Nuclear Awarded Oyster Creek Contract
Source: NewsThe joint venture of Holtec International and SNC-Lavalin, Comprehensive Decommissioning International, has awarded a contract to decommission the reactor internals and reactor pressure vessel at Oyster…
DOE Suspends Oak Ridge To Nevada Shipments
Source: NewsThe U.S. Department of Energy has acknowledged that multiple shipments or radioactive waste from the Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee over a five-year period had…
Rosatom, Laos, Sign MOU On Nuclear Energy
Source: NewsRussian nuclear power giant Rosatom has signed two memorandum of understanding along with the Ministry of Energy and Mines of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao…
Rolls Royce, AMS, Sign Partnership Agreement
Source: NewsBritish and American companies Rolls-Royce and Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation (AMS) have signed a partnership agreement to provide advanced Instrumentation and Control (I&C) system testing…
TVEL And Czech Republic To Cooperate On Materials Research
Source: NewsRosatom fuel development company TVEL announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding to work in the Czech Republic on materials science studies and research. The…
SALTO Team Completes Review Of Doel NPP
Source: NewsAn International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has completed a review of long term operational safety at the Doel Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Units…
Spending Bill Includes $25 Million For Nuclear Waste
Source: NewsThe House Appropriations Committee has passed a spending bill of close to $1 trillion that includes $1.3 billion for the Department of Energy that will be…
Bechtel, Deep Isolation Sign MOU On Waste Option
Source: NewsNuclear waste solutions company Deep Isolation, Inc. and construction giant Bechtel National, Inc., part of the largest engineering and construction company in the U.S., have announced…
GE Steam Power To Support Cernavoda NPP
Source: NewsGE Steam Power said this week that Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica (SNN) has selected the company to continue providing full maintenance services on two of its turbine…