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EDF Awards Telent Tech With IT Contract For Hinkley Point C
Source: NewsTelent Technology Services Ltd in Britain announced this week it had been awarded a six-year contract to supply the communications and IT infrastructure at Hinkley Point…
Vogtle Unit 2 Returns To Service With Accident Tolerant Fuel
Source: NewsOperators at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant returned Unit 2 to service April 3 complete with the world’s first full-length test assemblies, known as…
Core Catcher Frame Installed At Rooppur NPP Unit 2
Source: NewsThe reinforced frame of the core catcher, weighing 58 tons, and the embedded part for the core catcher, weighing 7.5 tons, have been installed for Unit…
TVA's SMR Project Clears NRC Hurdle
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission declared Monday there were no environmental impact issues that would prevent the agency from issuing permits for the small modular reactor project…
SMR Site License Application Submitted In Canada
Source: NewsGlobal First Power (GFP) said this week it had submitted an application for a License to Prepare Site for a potential Micro Modular Reactor project slated…
DOE Announces $19 Million In Nuclear Support
Source: NewsThe U.S. Department of Energy said four projects involving three companies in two states – one in Pennsylvania, three in California – were to receive more…
Cavendish Nuclear Completes Sellafield Support Facility
Source: NewsCavendish Nuclear has turned over the keys to the newly completed Silos Maintenance Facility on the Sellafield site in Britain, the Nuclear Industry Association reported.
ARC Nuclear Canada Signs On AECOM
Source: NewsARC Nuclear Canada, Inc. (ARC Canada), based in Saint John, New Brunswick, said it had entered an agreement with U.S.-based AECOM, a global engineering and construction…
IAEA Team Reviews Mexico's Laguna Verde NPP
Source: NewsAn International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts today completed a review of long term operational safety at the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)…
First Of Three Generators, Batch 2, Arrives At Gravelines NPP
Source: NewsFrench utility EDF said that the first of three replacement generators for the Gravelines nuclear plant had been delivered, arriving at the plant on March 13,…
NuScale Signs MOU For SMR Development In Romania
Source: NewsU.S. small nuclear plant developer NuScale Power said Tuesday it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica SA (SNN SA), a Romanian…
Ride A Helicopter To Work At Cooper NPP
Source: NewsWorkers at the Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, Nebraska made it to work just fine over the weekend. But they had to ride a helicopter to…
Foundation Slab Completed For Akkuyu Unit 1
Source: NewsThe concrete pouring of the foundation slab of Unit 1 of Akkuyu NPP, first Turkish nuclear power plant completed on March 08, 2019, Russian nuclear project…
ENEC, ENUSA Sign MOU For Fuel Services
Source: NewsThe Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said Tuesday it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Enusa Industrias Avanzadas, S.A., S.M.E. (ENUSA), defining a framework…
Seabrook Station Granted 20-Year License Extension
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted operators of the Seabrook Station nuclear plant in New Hampshire an extended 20 year operating license.
Rolls Royce To Shed Nuclear Division
Source: NewsBritish industrial giant Rolls Royce is preparing to offload its civic nuclear division, various media sources indicate.
Browns Ferry 2 Shuttered For Upgrade
Source: NewsThe Tennessee Valley Authority announced a $467 million upgrade project at the Browns Ferry Unit 2 in Athens, Alabama, had begun on March 2.
Rwanda To Take Preliminary Steps For Nuclear Power
Source: NewsRussia’s nuclear power giant Rosatom signed two cooperation memoranda with Rwandan officials last week spelling out preliminary steps for the advancement of a domestic nuclear energy…
DOE Launches Versatile Test Reactor Project
Source: NewsU.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has announced the launch of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Versatile Fast Neutron Source, which the DOE calls one of…
Five Utilities To Loan Japan Atomic Power $2.6 Billion
Source: NewsFive power companies in Japan with support from various banks are expected to loan the Japan Atomic Power Company $2.6 billion for safety upgrades at the…