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Nuclear Decommissioning Company Magnox To Lay Off 1,600 In Britain
Source: NewsBritish nuclear plant decommissioning company Magnox said Thursday that it would cut 1,600 jobs at 12 different nuclear power stations, none of which, with the exception…
S. African Energy Minister Says Nuclear Power Partner Will Be Chosen Soon
Source: NewsSouth Africa’s Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said this week that the country would chose a strategic partner or partners by the end of the year who…
Japan's Nuclear Restarts: One More Reactor Approved, One Injunction Upheld
Source: NewsEfforts to restart Japan’s nuclear power plants suffered a setback and a victory this week, as a district court upheld an injunction preventing one restart and…
SCE&G Fine Tunes VC Summer Completion Dates, As Ratings Drop
Source: NewsSouth Carolina Electric & Gas said in a regulatory filing that Unit 2 at the VC Summer nuclear plant construction site would not be completed until…
Four Utilities Request NRC Review Of Lightbridge Metallic Fuel Design
Source: NewsU.S. regulators said Monday that four U.S. electric utility companies, representing close to 50 percent of the country’s nuclear generation, have formally requested a review, by…
Kurion Awarded Cimarron Cleanup Contract
Source: NewsCalifornia-based waste water management firm Kurion Inc. said Monday that it had been awarded a contract to treat radioactive water at the Cimarron fuel fabrication facility…
NEI Honors Innovations That Save Nuclear Facilities Millions
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Energy Institute on Thursday announced its 2015 best industry practice awards, naming a team of Exelon employees as winners of the B. Ralph Sylvia…
NRC Directs Columbia Generating Station And Diablo Canyon NPP To Assess Seismic Risks
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday directed Energy Northwest and Pacific Gas and Electric Company, operators of the Columbia Generating Station in Washington state and the…
L-3 MAPPS to Implement GE’s Main Generator Excitation System on the Cernavodă Simulator
Source: News-Press Release- L-3 MAPPS announced today that it has received an order from GE Energy Control Solutions (GE) to implement the new GE EX2100e main generator…
Westinghouse Awarded Contract For Leibstadt NPP Inspections
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company and its subsidiary WesDyne International said Wednesday that it had been awarded a long-term contract for nuclear reactor pressure vessel nozzle inspection at…
In The National Election Campaign, Think Nuclear Power Jobs, Says Editorial
Source: News[UPDATED] Saving the U.S. nuclear power industry is the equivalent of saving hundreds of thousands of “solid, middle-class jobs,” an editorial written by the president of…
Jacobs Engineering Signs Management Deal For EDF Energy In Britain
Source: NewsPasadena-based Jabobs Engineering Group Inc. said Tuesday it had been awarded an EDF Energy contract to provide project management resources for the company’s entire British nuclear…
Small Firm Wins Big Sellafield Container Contract
Source: NewsA struggling engineering firm from Britain, Avingtrans, has been awarded a $73 million contract to build nuclear waste storage containers at Sellafield, site of one of…
Diakont Begins Supply of D40 Console, a Turnkey Solution for Visual Inspections
Source: News-Prees Release- San Diego, California – Diakont, a leading provider of high-tech solutions for the nuclear industry, has begun supply of new D40 console systems which…
In New York, Fate Of R.E. Ginna Deal Is In Public Service Commission's Hands
Source: NewsThe New York Public Services Commission is listening, and on the line is a deal struck by Rochester Gas & Electric and Exelon Corporation, the owners…
Federal Panel Says Yes To Deep-Shaft Repository At Canada's Bruce NPP
Source: NewsA three-member federal panel in Canada has approved of burial of low and intermediate-level radioactive materials from nuclear power plants at a site 0.7 miles from…
Areva To Cut Up To 6,000 Jobs, Mostly In France
Topics: Industry & BusinessSource: NewsFrench nuclear plant builder Areva said Thursday that it would soon negotiate with union leadership with the aim of cutting 18 percent of its labor cost,…
Areva Announces NUHOMS Contract And Bavarian Plant Milestone
Source: NewsStruggling French nuclear power giant Areva notched some positive news this week, including Tuesday's announcement that used fuel storage division Areva TN had signed a module…
Reactor Components — 200 Tons Worth — Delivered To Vogtle Construction Site
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company said Monday that it had delivered approximately 200 tons of reactor vessel components to the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant construction site in Waynesboro,…
Maine Gov. LePage Tests State's Response To Small Nuclear Power Plants
Source: NewsIf Maine is any indication of how small nuclear power plants will be received by the nation, it seems fair to say that they will not…