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ASN Clears Nine EDF Reactors For Restart
Source: NewsFrench authorities cleared the restart of nine reactors out of 12 that were caught up in the search for high carbon concentrations in steel components manufactured…
L3 MAPPS to Upgrade EDF Energy’s Dungeness B Simulator
Source: News–Press Release– L3 MAPPS announced today that it has been awarded a contract by United Kingdom-based EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Limited to perform upgrade work on…
A Banner Year For CGN: Five Reactors Go Commercial
Source: NewsChina General Nuclear Power Corporation took stock of its accomplishments in 2016 and noted its achievements included adding five completed nuclear reactors to its fleet in…
Hinkley Point C Construction Contracts Awarded
Source: NewsBouygues Construction announced this week that a subsidiary, Bouygues Travaux Publics, a consortium with the British construction firm Laing O'Rourke, had signed contracts with French utility…
NRC Accepts Application For Clinch River Site Permit
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week that it had accepted for review the Early Site Permit application for the Clinch River site near Oak Ridge,…
NRC Notes No Creusot Forge Safety Concerns
Source: NewsThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said that components in U.S. nuclear plants made at the Creusot Forge in France that were implicated by an ongoing…
NuScale Hand Delivers 12,000-Page SMR Application To NRC
Source: NewsNext generation nuclear power plant developer NuScale has requested a regulatory review of its small modular reactor (SMR) design for commercial application, submitting its nearly 12,000-pages…
EU Commission Approves Capital Support For AREVA
Source: NewsEuropean Commission anti-trust regulators ruled Tuesday that the French government's rescue plans for troubled nuclear engineering firm AREVA were in line with state aid rules.
British Government Puts HPR1000 On Assessment Track
Source: NewsFrench and Chinese companies EDF Energy and China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) said Tuesday that the British government had requested nuclear power regulators – namely…
CGN Connects Yangjiang Unit 4 To Grid
Source: NewsChina General Nuclear Power Corp. said it connected the fourth unit of the Yangjiang nuclear power plant to the grid on Sunday, allowing the company to…
NRC Plans Release Of Le Creusot Affected U.S. Plants
Source: NewsThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said it plans to release names of U. S. nuclear reactors that have installed components produced by the Le Creusot…
L3 MAPPS to Work With INEEL to Modernize the Laguna Verde Simulator
Source: News—Press Release— L3 MAPPS announced today that it has received an order from Instituto Nacional de Electricidad y Energías Limpias (INEEL) to support the modernization of…
Studies Done For OPG's Underground Repository
Source: NewsCanadian nuclear power operator Ontario Power Generation (OPG) said Wednesday it had submitted information to the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change concerning a proposal…
Thomas Thor Associates, B.V. and KeySource HCI, LLC Announce Merger
Source: News–Press Release– KeySource Thomas Thor, LLCThomas Thor Associates, B.V. and KeySource HCI, LLC announce that as of January 1, 2017 they are merging their nuclear industry…
PG&E Considers Appeal Of NRC White-Status Designation
Source: NewsPacific Gas & Electric is considering an appeal of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's white safety status designation issued last week that cited the Diablo Canyon nuclear…
Regulator OKs Dry Storage At Sizewell B
Source: NewsThe Office of Nuclear Regulation in Britain has granted approval for EDF Energy to begin using a $250 million dry storage facility for spent fuel at…
Rosatom Subsidiary Opens "Near Surface" Nuclear Waste Repository
Source: NewsRussia has put into operation its first near-surface final nuclear waste repository for solid low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste, National Operator for Radioactive Waste Management (NO…
Rosatom Open To AREVA Investment Says VP
Source: NewsRussian nuclear power conglomerate Rosatom is open to the idea of discussing the purchase of a stake in state-run French company AREAVA, but there is little…
Bob Hawke, Former PM, Touts Nuclear Waste Option For Australia
Source: NewsFormer Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, 87, called on his country to embrace the business of nuclear waste storage as a means of helping the country's…
Pakistan To Hold Inaugural Event For Chashma C-3
Source: NewsPakistan's Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will officially launch the country's fourth nuclear reactor, Chashma C-3, with an inauguration ceremony on Wednesday with a ceremony at…