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IAEA Team Inspects Qinshan NPP In China
Source: NewsAn International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts completed a review of long term operational safety at the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Unit 1…
IAEA Team Notes Safety Improvements At Golfech NPP
Source: NewsA United Nations inspection team said that Electricite de France, operator of the Golfech Nuclear Power Plant, had made significant improvements to enhance operational safety at…
Kakrapar Unit 1 Reaches Criticality After Repairs
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) said Monday that Unit 1 reactor at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station in the Surat district of Gujarat…
Enfission, NuScale, Sign MOU For Fuel Development
Source: NewsU.S.-based small modular reactor developer NuScale Power and fuel-development company Enfission, announced Wednesday they had signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the use of next…
Shine Medical Tech Breaks Ground On Isotope Production Plant
Source: NewsWisconsin-based SHINE Medical Technologies, Inc., announced May 9 that the company had launched into construction of their first medical isotope production facility in Janesville, Wisconsin with…
Agreement Sets Up Cernavoda 3 & 4 Development
Source: NewsRomanian nuclear power plant operator Nuclearelectrica said Wednesday that it had signed a preliminary investors agreement with China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) for the development…
Framatome Contracted For Fuel Trial At Calvert Cliffs NPP
Source: NewsFramatome said it had signed a contract to deliver two full fuel assemblies using the company’s industry-leading Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (EATF) solution to Exelon Generation’s…
Cold Testing Underway At Fuqing Unit 5
Source: NewsChina National Nuclear Corporation said that cold hydrostatic testing was initiated at the end of April for Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant’s Unit 5, the first of…
DOE Says Tunnel 2 At Hanford Site Is Stabilized
Source: NewsWorkers at the Hanford Site in southeast Washington have completed the filling a second waste storage tunnel with engineered grout, significantly reducing the risk of a…
Framatome Lands Gosgen NPP Modernization Contract
Source: NewsFramatome of France announced on Tuesday that it had been awarded a contract to modernize the reactor protection system at the Gosgen Nuclear Power Plant operated…
EBRD Declares Chernobyl Confinement Dome Complete
Source: NewsAfter 72 hours of testing, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) declared the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site…
DOE Plans $7.5M For Nuclear Data Research
Source: NewsThe U.S. Department of Energy has announced plans to provide $7.5 million for new research on nuclear data. The aim, the department said, is to expand…
Floating NPP Completes Pre-Licensing Tests
Source: NewsRosatom operations subsidiary Rosenergoatom said that the twin KLT-40 icebreaker reactors on the floating power station Akademik Lomonosov had passed comprehensive pre-licensing tests and would be…
CNNC Completes Qinshan NPP Uprate
Source: NewsThe China National Nuclear Corporation said this week that it had completed a 50 MWe net upgrade of the country's oldest domestic nuclear power plant to…
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd Awards Framework Contracts
Source: NewsThe company in charge of decommissioning at the fast breeder research and development site in Scotland, Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) said it had awarded six…
Concrete Pour Milestone At Kursk II Unit 2
Source: NewsRussia’s state-owned nuclear power corporation Rosatom said last week that that workers had poured the first concrete for the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant II unit 2.
Mochovce Unit 3 Completes Hot Hydro Testing
Source: NewsSlovakian utility Slovenske Elektrame said that unit 3 of the Machovce nuclear plant had completed all of the hot hydro testing and had moved to the…
NUHOMS Storage Unit Granted Expanded License
Source: NewsNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved of a licensing Orano USA's NUHOMS dry storage systems, that will permit "significantly shorter cooling times—as short as two years—and…
TVO Announces Fuel Loading Delay At Olkiluoto 3
Source: NewsFinnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) announced that fuel loading at the near-completed Olkiluoto 3 reactor, long delayed during construction, will be postponed for about two…
Okuma's Reopening Gets Mixed Response
Source: NewsSome of the evacuees from the town of Okuma, west of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power disaster site, have been invited to return to their homes,…