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PG&E To Withdraw Diablo Canyon NPP License Application
Source: NewsPacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) said late last week it would not seek a California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) rehearing on the Diablo Canyon Power…
Xcel Energy Contracts Westinghouse For Outage Services
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company said Monday it has been awarded a 10-year integrated outage services contract by Xcel Energy for its fleet of nuclear plants in Minnesota.
Bills Introduced In Senate Would Affect Decommissioning
Source: NewsTwo bills have been introduced in the U.S. Senate that would likely make decommissioning nuclear power plants more expensive and possibly more arduous.
EDF Signs Decomissioning Contract With SOGIN
Source: NewsCyclife, an EDF Group subsidiary, and SOGIN, the Italian public company in charge of decommissioning and waste management, have signed an agreement to the tune of…
Rosatom Brings Unit 1 Leningrad II Minimum Controlled Power
Source: NewsRussian engineering and construction giant Rosatom announced that the Unit 1 of Generation III+ VVER-1200 reactor at Leningrad Phase II was brought up to the minimum…
Waste Containment Boxes Now In Production In Britain
Source: NewsTen years in the making, the first 500-year steel containers designed for nuclear waste specifically for the Cumbria Sellafield decommissioning project in Britain are now coming…
DOE Report Hails SMR Benefits
Source: NewsA new report released by the U.S. Department of Energy, authored by Seth Kirshenberg and Hilary Jackler of the law firm Kutak Rock, addresses the need…
Three AP1000 Units On Track For 2018 Start Ups
Source: NewsThree Westinghouse-designed AP1000 reactors are on track for completion and initial operations in 2018 with the announcement this week that Unit 2 at the Sanmen nuclear…
EPA Announces Plan To Cleanup Contaminated St. Louis Landfill
Source: NewsThe Environmental Protection Agency announced the release of funds designated to clean up the West Lake landfill site near St. Louis, Mo., that was used as…
Regulators In Japan OK Start Of Research Reactor
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulation Authority in Japan has approved the restart of a research reactor, making it the first government facility research reactor to pass new safety…
Westinghouse Extends Fuel Contract With Ukraine
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company said Monday that it has signed a nuclear fuel contract extension with Ukraine’s State Enterprise National Nuclear Energy Generation Company (SE NNEGC) Energoatom.…
Policy Exchange In Britain Recommends SMRs
Source: NewsSmall modular nuclear reactors could be “crucial” in the Britain's pursuit of an energy strategy that will need to provide “previously unthinkable levels of new low…
Regulator Recommends Connecticut Support Millstone NPP
Source: NewsConnecticut's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) in a draft report has recommended the state allow the Millstone Nuclear Power Station to be declared a clean energy…
Russia, Argentina Sign MOU On Uranium Production
Source: NewsRussia and Argentina signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning uranium exploration and mining that the South American country said it hoped would put it on a…
New Areva Takes A New Name (Orano), Logo And Headquarters
Source: NewsNew Areva – the mining and nuclear fuel company left over from Areva's restructuring process after the company was beset by losses – said Tuesday that…
Small Reactor Testing Went Well Says Nasa
Source: NewsThe race for developing a viable small modular reactor is on, but the first community to have a small reactor installed may not be in Idaho…
Tepco Probe Of Unit 2 Finds Fuel Deposit
Source: NewsThe Tokyo Electric Power Company said Friday that a prove outfitted with a camera, a lamp, heat sensors and a dosimeter has returned images of fuel…
Belarus NPP Has Final Steam Generator Installed
Source: NewsThe fourth and final 330-metric ton steam generator has been hoisted into place in Unit 2 of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant under construction near Ostrovets,…
A Call For Preservation Of U.S. Uranium Mining
Source: NewsTwo major U.S. uranium producers, Ur-Energy and Energy Fuels Inc., have filed a petition with the Department of Commerce calling for a cap on imports that…
Saudi Arabia Expects To Sign Build Contracts In 2018
Source: NewsA report cited by the Bloomberg business news agency said that Saudi Arabia intended to award nuclear power plant related contracts by the end of this…