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Horizon Nuclear Signs Project Co-operations Deal With Japanese Firms
Source: NewsHorizon Nuclear Power said Thursday it had sighed a deal with The Japan Atomic Power Company and Hitachi calling for co-operation on the proposed Wylfa Newydd…
Watts Bar Unit 2 Reaches 42 Percent Of Full Power
Source: NewsWatts Bar Unit 2, the country's newest nuclear reactor, which reached first criticality on May 23, reached 42 percent of full power on Thursday, the highest…
AREVA Completes Sale Of Canberra To Mirion Technologies
Source: NewsNuclear power giant AREVA, as part of their restructuring strategy, announced over the holiday weekend that it had completed the sale of its instrumentation and measurement…
British Unions Call For Prompt Green Light On Hinkley Point
Source: NewsFour powerful labor unions in Britain are calling the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant construction project the first major “litmus test” for the country in…
Entergy Announces Nuclear Fleet Leadership Changes
Source: NewsEntergy Chief Nuclear Officer Chris Bakken has announced that Larry Coyle, Indian Point Energy Center site vice president, has been named chief operating officer to work…
Georgia Power Places CA05 Module For Vogtle Unit 4
Source: NewsGeorgia Power said Tuesday that the latest construction milestone at the Vogtle Unit 3 and 4 site near Waynesboro, Ga., had been reached with the placement…
Susquehanna Unit 1 Back Online
Source: NewsUnit 1 at the Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant seven miles north of Berwick, Pa., is back on line after a 21-day outage prompted by discovery of…
Entergy Contains Small Lubricant Leak At FitzPatrick NPP
Source: NewsEntergy said Monday that workers at the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant near Scriba, N.Y., had identified the source of a lubricant leak that had…
Holtec Storage Pad For Laguna Verde NPP Nears Completion
Source: NewsHoltec International said Friday that its turnkey spent fuel storage facility built for Mexico's national utility, Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), at the Laguna Verde Nuclear…
GEH Pegged For $2M Research Project Involving 3D Manufacturing
Source: NewsThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has pegged GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to research and advance the use of 3D manufacturing systems to build prototype…
Exelon Notifies NRC On Quad Cities And Clinton NPP Closures
Source: NewsExelon Generations said this week that they had made its intentions to close the Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear stations in 2017 and 2018, respectively, official,…
NRC Issues Confirmatory Action Letter To Entergy Operations Concerning Arkansas One
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a Confirmatory Action Letter documenting actions that Entergy Operations, Inc., officials have agreed to take to address performance issues at…
PG&E To Close Diablo Canyon In 2025
Source: NewsPG&E announced Tuesday that it would cease with any and all activities intended to extend the operating licenses of the company's two pressurized water reactors at…
In China, Changjiang Unit 2 Synced To The Grid
Source: NewsThe China National Nuclear Corporation said Monday that the most recent reactor in China to reach its first sustained fission reaction, the No. 2 unit at…
NRC Completes Flood Protection Review Of Oconee NPP
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said Friday it had completed its review of the flood protection improvements at the Oconee Nuclear Plant 30 miles west of…
OPPD Votes To Shut Down Fort Calhoun NPP By Year's End
Source: NewsThe Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) board of directors announced Thursday that they had decided in a unanimous vote to close the Fort Calhoun Station nuclear…
With Tax Phase Out, Vattenfall Will Invest In Forsmark NPP
Source: NewsThe Vattenfall's board of directors on Wednesday announced they would invest in independent core cooling for the Forsmark power plant's three nuclear reactors. The company said…
DOE Announces $82 Million In Nuclear Research Funding
Source: NewsNoting that nuclear energy was “by far” the largest source of carbon-free energy in the United States, Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on Tuesday announced…
AREVA's NEW CO To Focus On Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Source: NewsFrench nuclear group AREVA on Wednesday announced its five-year restructuring plan that pivots on a creation of new subsidiary, NEW CO, that will focus on cash-flow-generating…
Final Unit 3 Coolant Pump Delivered To Vogtle Expansion Site
Source: NewsThe final reactor coolant pump for Unit 3 at the Vogtle nuclear power plant expansion project has arrived at the construction site, Georgia Power announced.