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Ansaldo Nuclear Contracted At Sellafield
Source: NewsThe first contract awarded as part of the Program and Project Partners new goods and services agreement has been awarded to Ansaldo Nuclear, based in Wolverhampton,…
NRC Authorizes Vogtle Unit 3 Fuel Loading and Operation
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized Southern Nuclear Operating Company to load nuclear fuel and begin operation at Vogtle Unit 3 in Georgia, the first reactor…
Gemini Containers Return To Service At Sellafield
Source: NewsAfter extensive testing and refurbishment, the first active shipment of legacy waste drums from Magnox Harwell to Sellafield has been completed using the NDA’s Type B…
Cernadvoda Project Design Contract Goes To Candu Energy
Source: NewsRomanian utility Nuclearelectrica said it had contracted SNC-Lavalin Group member Candu Energy for engineering and design services connected to refurbishing the Unit 1 reactor at the…
Kairos Power And Materion To Produce Molten Salt Coolant
Source: NewsCalifornia-based Kairos Power, moving forward with development of a fluoride salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (KP-FHR), said Tuesday it would work with Ohio-based chemical engineer firm Materion, to…
Two Outstanding Issues Mar Sizewell C Application
Source: NewsThe Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) in Britain said the license application for the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk had not quite made…
Bechtel Team Wins $3B WIPP Contract
Source: NewsThe U.S. Department of Energy has selected a Bechtel company to manage and operate the nation’s only deep underground repository for nuclear waste: the Waste Isolation…
Dome For Rooppur Unit 1 Has Concrete Finished
Source: NewsIn the People's Republic of Bangladesh, construction crews have completed the concrete layering of the the containment dome at the Rooppur nuclear power plant's Unit 1…
Permit Granted For Egypt's First Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsThe Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) has issued a permit for the construction of the El-Dabaa NPP Unit 1, Russia's nuclear power conglomerate Rosatom…
Bruce Power Signs On BWXT Canada For $100M Contract
Source: NewsBruce Power this week said it had signed on Cambridge-based BWXT Canada Ltd as part of its "Made In Ontario" program with a contract valued at…
NASA Funds Fission Designs For Lunar Surface
Source: NewsNASA, in partnership with Battelle Energy Alliance, contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL), has selected Westinghouse Electric Company to provide an…
AEM-Tech Pipes For Chinese Reactors In Assembly
Source: NewsPetrozavodsk branch of AEM-Technologies has started to assemble pipe spools of reactor coolant pipeline (RCP) for power unit No. 7 of Tianwan NPS under construction in…
EDF Signs 5 Cooperation Agreements In Poland
Source: NewsFrench nuclear utility and procurement agency EDF said this week it had used the fifth Polish-French nuclear energy symposium in Oltarzew, Poland, to sign 5 new…
Maryland Energy Admin. Funds SMR Study
Source: NewsThe state of Maryland's Energy Administration (MEA) has announced a study initiative to determine the potential for siting an Advanced Small Modular Reactor (SMR) in the…
Team Delivers Spent Fuel Casks To U.S. Utility
Source: NewsU.S. Orano subsidiary Orano TN Americas SeAH Besteel Co., Ltd., announced completion and delivery of the first dual-purpose used nuclear fuel dry storage cask manufactured for…
Reactor Core Barrel Manufactured For Chinese Plant
Source: NewsAtommash AEM-Technologies JSC Branch, a manufacturing division of Rosatom – Atomenergomash said this week it had completec constuction of the reactor core barrel for Unit No.7…
Sellafield Begins Waste Removal From Magnox Silo
Source: NewsTechnicians began removing nuclear waste from the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo at the Sellafield Site in Britain, the government program said last week.
Construction of Nuclear Steam Project Begins In China
Source: NewsThe first concrete was poured for a nuclear steam supply project at the Tianwan nuclear power plant in Lianyungang city, in East China's Jiangsu province, began…
Westinghouse, Energoatom Sign Major Deal
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company and Ukrainian nuclear power utility Energoatom announced the signing of a major fuel and nuclear expansion agreement this week, including supplying all nuclear…
Jacobs Designs Robot For Fukushima Debris Collection
Source: NewsU.S. engineering group Jacobs has designed and built a robotic tool to obtain crucial information about the state of a damaged nuclear power reactor at Fukushima…