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Second Court In Japan Holds Government Liable For Meltdowns
Source: NewsThe Fukushima Disctrict Court on Tuesday held the government of Japan and the Tokyo Electric Power Company liable for the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima…
IAEA Says Nuclear Security In Germany Is Strong
Source: NewsAn International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission said Friday that a team of experts has completed an advisory mission in Germany with the impression that the…
Milestones At Vogtle Includes 71-Hour Concrete Pour
Source: NewsGeorgia Power on Friday touted continued progress continues at the Vogtle nuclear expansion site near Waynesboro, Georgia with recent latest milestones achieved over the past week…
Wake Forest Touts Molecular Trap To Scrub Fuel Rods
Source: NewsThe University of Wake Forest news department has announced a new method for scrubbing radioactive iodide from used nuclear fuel rods that has higher efficiency measures…
NuGen CEO Samson Notes Delayed Start For Moorside Plant
Source: NewsFinancial considerations are continuing to hold up progress with the NuGen nuclear power plant project slated for Moorside in northwest England, Chief Executive Officer Tom Samson…
IAEA Reaches Funding Goal For New Laboratory
Source: NewsWith a donation of a little over $1 million from Japan ($1.17 million), the International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday said it had secured the $5.52…
NRC Launches Special Inspection at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday it had launched a special inspection into the failure of a high pressure coolant injection discharge valve on Unit 3…
Vogtle Expansion Receives $300 Million Toshiba Tranche
Source: NewsGeorgia Power on Monday announced a significant and potentially nerve-calming financial milestone, saying that the company had received the first tranche of a settlement from ailing…
Westinghouse, Turboatom, Sign Capacity Increase MOU
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company announced Thursday that it has signed an extended Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ukrainian company PJSC Turboatom, in partnership to coordinate and cooperate…
SCE&G, Santee Cooper, Sell Toshiba Settlement To Citibank
Source: NewsSouth Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G), principal subsidiary of SCANA Corporation (SCANA) (NYSE: SCG), announced Wednesday that it, along with Santee Cooper, has sold to…
DOE Adds $1.67 Billion To Vogtle Expansion Loan Guarantees
Source: NewsGeorgia Power announced Friday that it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a conditional commitment of approximately $1.67 billion in…
BWSR Contract With Bechtel Main Propulsion Is Extended
Source: NewsBWX Technologies, Inc. said Wednesday that its BWSR, LLC joint venture with APTIM has been awarded a two-year extension by Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation (BMPC) that…
Westinghouse Signs Bohunice V1 Decommissioning Contract
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company on Wednesday announced they have signed a contract with Jadrová a vyraďovacia spoločnosť (JAVYS) for the dismantling of the reactor coolant systems of…
Santee Cooper May Sell Its Share Of Toshiba Settlement
Source: NewsSantee Cooper, owner of 45 percent of the canceled two-reactor expansion project at the V.C. Summer nuclear power plant in Jenkinsville, S.C., said it was considering…
Nesca To Restart Pebble Bed Reactor Fuel Production
Source: NewsCiting strong interest from the United States and inquiries from Russia and Indonesia, the head of the South Africa Nuclear Energy Corporation (Nesca) said that it…
VVER Construction Underway At Akkuyu
Source: NewsThe head of Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom Alexei Likhachev said Tuesday that construction work had begun at Akkuyu in Turkey, a southern city on the…
Kudankulam NPP Unit 2 To Restart Early October
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) announced that the second unit at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in India would be restarted on 7 October,…
Fennovoima Backs Up On Hanhikivi Permit Schedule
Source: NewsFennovoima, the nuclear power consortium of Finland, said Monday that it had postponed expectations for a building permit for a Rosatom-built nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki,…
FirstEnergy Starts Repairs On Davis-Besse Containment Building
Source: NewsFirstEnergy Corp. said it had hired contractors to repair two areas of cracks in the outer layer of concrete of the 296-feet tall containment building at…
Energoatom Turns To Westinghouse For Monitoring Systems
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company said Monday that it has signed a contract with Ukraine’s State Enterprise National Nuclear Energy Generation Company Energoatom to deliver important monitoring instrumentation…