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Westinghouse Secures Cofrentes NPP Fuel Contract
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company today announced the signing of a contract for manufacture and delivery of boiling water reactor (BWR) fuel to Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant (CNC)…
Darlington Unit 2 Re-Assembly Begins
Source: NewsIt’s time to put Darlington Nuclear’s Unit 2 reactor back together, Ontario Power Generation announced Tuesday.
IAEA Seeks Solutions To Fusion Containment
Source: NewsThe IAEA said Monday it had issued a challenge for data specialists to come up models that would open the door for new materials to be…
GE Ends Manufacturing At Salem, Va., Plant
Source: NewsUnion officials at General Electric's manufacturing division in Salem, Virginia, where the company has made power-generation turbines for decades, said they had received a letter of…
China, Signs Four-Reactor Deal With Rosatom
Source: NewsRussia's nuclear engineer and construction giant Rosatom has signed a deal in China that calls for the construction of four Russian-designed VVER-1200 reactors, two of which…
Federal Judge Temporarily Halts MOX Cancellation
Source: NewsA federal judge in South Carolina has temporarily put a halt to the federal government's plan to back out of the mixed oxide fuel (MOX) project…
IAEA Team Completes Advisory Mission To Switzerland
Source: NewsUnited Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Friday that a team of experts had completed a nuclear security advisory mission in Switzerland, carried out at…
NuScale Finds 20% More Power In SMR Design
Source: NewsSmall modular reactor (SMR) developer NuScale said Wednesday it had discovered 20 percent more power than originally planned in the SMR it is developing.
DOE Awards $5M For Westinghouse's Micro-Reactor
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company said Thursday that it was awarded $5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. The funding…
Olkiluoto Unit 3 Completes Hot Functional Testing
Source: NewsThe long-delayed Unit 3 at Finland’s Olkiluoto NPP (OL3) power plant is a step closer to start up with hot functional testing completed in May, Teollisuuden…
Draft Memo Fuels Debate On Federal Intervention For Nuclear And Coal
Source: NewsA draft memo circulated by the Trump administration that was made public by Bloomberg News has reinvigorated the national debate on energy security with its immediate…
Bahrain Signs Its First IAEA Program Framework
Source: NewsThe United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday that Bahrain had signed its first Country Program Framework that formally initiates its interest in various priorities…
S. Carolina Sues Federal Government Over MOX Cancellation
Source: NewsSouth Carolina, a state with two multi-billion dollar nuclear power-related projects canceled in the middle of construction, is suing the federal government over the Department of…
Westinghouse, ENUSA To Cooperate On Fuel Development
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company today announced that it will collaborate in the development of its EnCore Fuel, the revolutionary accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) design, with ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas…
Floating Nuclear Plant Handed Over To Owners
Source: NewsChugging along at an average speed of 3.5 knots, the world's only floating nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov, made it to the northern Russian port of…
Application Initiates Process To Start Up Shimane 3
Source: NewsChugoku Electric Power Company has applied to local city and prefecture governments for permission to apply for pre-start up inspections at Shimane 3, which is nearing…
Entergy Contract With GNF Extended
Source: NewsGlobal Nuclear Fuel (GNF) said Tuesday it had been awarded a long-term contract by Entergy Nuclear to continue to fuel its boiling water reactors.
South Carolina Stuck Again With MOX Cancellation
Source: NewsThe mixed-oxide fuel fabrication project at the Savannah River site in South Carolina has been officially canceled vis a vis a letter to Congress from Energy…
Dominion Energy Provides Development Funds For BWRX-300
Source: NewsGE Hitachi Nuclear Energy said Monday that Dominion Energy has agreed to help fund efforts to bring the BWRX-300 small nuclear reactor to market.
Palo Verde NPP Threatened By Renewable Power Initiative
Source: NewsRenewable energy could hit the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona with a fatal body blow, plant officials have said.