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Plant Hatch Reloaded With First Of Kind Fuel Assemblies
Source: NewsOperators at the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant in Alabama on Sunday safely returned Unit 1 to service following a planned refueling and maintenance outage that…
Vermont Yankee Sale Would Accelerate Decommissioning
Source: NewsThe sale of the shuttered Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vt., could result in an accelerated schedule for decommissioning for the 620-MW plant that…
Exelon, PSEG To Cease Capital Projects At Salem NPP
Source: NewsThe Public Services Enterprise Group and Exelon, owners of the Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey, filed notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission on…
Georgia Power Files Monitoring Report No. 18
Source: NewsGeorgia Power has filed its latest Vogtle Construction Monitoring Report with the state's Public Service Commission, its 18th, which designates completion of the plant's two-reactor extension…
Oversight Office Condemns NDA Procurement Process
Source: NewsA government finance oversight office in Britain, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), has issued a harshly critical report of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) that also…
Wood Group Signs Onto Bradwell Site Build
Source: NewsScotland-based Wood Group has secured a framework agreement to provide technical assistance for a project to build a new nuclear power station slated for Bradwell in…
British RISER Drone To Survey Fukushima Dai-ichi
Source: NewsA British-made lightweight drone that self-navigates with the use of lasers will be deployed for exploratory runs at the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Generating Station, flying…
U.S. To Talk 123 Agreement With Saudi Arabia
Source: NewsU.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry is headed to London at the end of the week with a delegation charged with working towards a 123 agreement with…
U.S. Navy, BWXT, Extend Reactor Parts Contract Options
Source: NewsBWX Technologies, Inc. said Monday that the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program has exercised contract options with subsidiary BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. totaling approximately $492…
Leningrad II Unit 1 Begins Power Up Testing
Source: NewsRussian nuclear build corporation Rosatom said this week that the Unit 1 at the Leningrad nuclear power plant expansion project – known as Leningrad Phase II…
IAEA Conducts 200th Plant Review
Source: NewsThe International Atomic Energy Agency reached a compliance milestone this week, noting on its website that, for the 200th time a review team had been sent…
Westinghouse Signs Lead Cooled Reactor Cooperative Agreement
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company said Thursday it had signed a Cooperation Agreement for lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) technology development with the Italian National Agency for New Technologies,…
NRC Proposes $145,000 Fine For Plant Vogtle Lapses
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday that there were no safety concerns connected with the incidents, but they have proposed a civil penalty of $145,000 against…
BWXT Canada Awarded $30M Heat Exchanger Contract
Source: NewsBWX Technologies said Tuesday that that its subsidiary BWXT Canada Ltd. (BWXT Canada) had been awarded contracts valued at approximately CA$30 million from Bruce Power to…
Cooper NPP Generates $112 Million Per Year For Region
Source: NewsA study conducted by the Nuclear Energy Institute has found that the Cooper Nuclear Station, located in the southeast corner of Nebraska, generates $112 million per…
Production Slide Should Rebound In 2018, Says EDF Chief
Source: NewsFrench nuclear power operator EDF said that revenue dropped 2.2 percent in 2017, while core earnings fell 16.3 percent, blaming the declines on lower production brought…
GEH, Holtec International, To Collaborate On SMR Developement
Source: NewsGE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), Global Nuclear Fuel, Holtec International and SMR Inventec, LLC (SMR, LLC), today announced a collaboration to advance the SMR‐160, a single…
Armenia To Begin Upgrading Metsamor NPP
Source: NewsArmenia announced a refurbishment project for its one commercial nuclear reactor, which the deputy minister of Energy, Infrastructures and Natural Resources Hayk Harutyunyan said would increase…
Former Energy Secretary Moniz To Join Southern Company Board
Source: NewsOne of the country's most prominent energy experts, Dr. Ernest Moniz, the former United States Secretary of Energy, a nuclear physicist by profession, will join the…
L3 MAPPS Wins Digital Control Computer System Hardware Replacement for Bruce Unit 2
Source: News–Press Release– L3 MAPPS announced today that it has won a contract from Bruce Power to deliver three Digital Control Computers (DCCs), replacing the existing Bruce…