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SNC-Lavalin To Design Inspection Tool For Darlington NPP
Source: NewsSNC-Lavalin said this week that it has signed a contract for design, fabrication and deployment of the newly developed PRECISE (Pressure Tube Circumferential Sampling Equipment) tool for Canada's Darlington Nuclear Generating Station starting early 2021.
GE Steam Power To Service Two Ukrainian Plants
Source: NewsU.S. nuclear serve industry firm GE Steam Power, which services around 100 nuclear plant outages per year, announced this week that it has been selected by AtomRemontServis for its first Multi-Year Agreement (MYA) in Ukraine…
MOX Fuel Ready For Beloyarsk Fast Breeder Plant
Source: NewsThe first complete reloading of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for Russia’s BN-800 fast reactor at unit 4 of the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant has been manufactured at the Mining and Chemical Combine (MCC) in Zheleznogorsk,…
Philippines / President Sets Up Committee To Study Nuclear Energy
Source: NucNetThe Philippines has taken a step towards introducing nuclear power, its energy minister said on Wednesday, after president Rodrigo Duterte created an inter-agency committee to study the adoption of a national nuclear energy policy. In…
Sweden / Spain’s GDES Wins Barseback And Oskarshamn Decommissioning Work
Source: NucNetSpain-based GD Energy Services (GDES) has been awarded a contract to support the decommissioning of the Barseback and Oskarshamn nuclear power stations in Sweden. The company said work under the contract will take four years…
Kazakhstan / Rosatom To Help With BN-350 Fast Neutron Reactor Decommissioning
Topics: Fuel & WasteSource: NucNetRussian state nuclear corporation Rosatom will help Kazakhstan decommission the BN-350 fast neutron reactor at the shutdown Aktau nuclear site on the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea, according to state news agency Ria Novosti.…
Czech Republic / Government And ČEZ Sign Agreements For Planned New Unit At Dukovany
Source: NucNetThe Czech government signed agreements with ČEZ on Tuesday for a planned expansion of the majority state-owned utility’s Dukovany nuclear power station. The agreements cover the overall general framework of the project and its initial…
India / Russia Ships Last Of Four Steam Generators For Kudankulam-4
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNetRussia’s Atommash has shipped the last of four steam generators for the Kudankulam-4 nuclear power plant under construction in Tamil Nadu state, southern India. Atommash, an engineering subsidiary of state nuclear corporation Rosatom, said the…
IAEA / SMR Regulators Forum Webinar To Discuss Licensing Challenges
Source: NucNetThe International Atomic Energy Agency’s SMR Regulators’ Forum is holding a webinar on 29 July to discuss issues related to the licensing and regulating of small modular reactors. The forum was created in 2015 to…
Kyrgyz Republic / Work Begins To Overcome Uranium Mining Legacy
Source: NucNetWork has begun in the Kyrgyz Republic to overcome the legacy of uranium mining in Central Asia with a groundbreaking ceremony in Shekaftar, a former industrial centre during the Soviet period near the border with…
Iter / World’s Largest Nuclear Fusion Project Under Assembly In France
Topics: Research & TechnologySource: NucNetThe world’s largest nuclear fusion project began its five-year assembly phase on Tuesday in southern France, with the first ultra-hot plasma expected to be generated in late 2025. The €20bn Iter (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor)…
US / Finance Agency Lifts Ban On Funding Of Nuclear Energy Projects
Source: NucNetThe US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) officially announced it will lift its legacy prohibition on funding nuclear energy projects, recognising the vast energy needs of developing countries and the potential of new and advanced…
US Agency to Fund Nuclear Enegy Exports
Source: Neutron BytesUS Agency to Fund Nuclear Energy Exports India’s First New PHWR Kakrapar 3 Achieves First Criticality Czech Government Approves Interest-Free Loan for New Reactor at Dukovany Romania / Government Close To Signing Agreement On New…
INL Requests Partners to Develop Nuclear Reactors to Use on the Moon and Mars
Topics: Research & TechnologySource: Neutron BytesIdaho National Laboratory Issues RFI for Nuclear Power Systems for Moon and Mars NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Gets its Nuclear Power source for a July 30 Launch Senate Passes Nuclear Energy Leadership Act In Defense…
Romania / Government Close To Signing Agreement On New Cernavodă Units, Says PM
Source: NucNetRomania is close to signing an agreement with undisclosed “Euro-Atlantic partners” to complete the third and fourth units at the Cernavodă nuclear power station, prime minister Ludovic Orban announced on July 23 as he visited…
Ohio House Speaker, Four Others, Charged in $60M Bribery, Money Laundering Scheme for Legislation to Save Two Ohio Nuclear Plants
Source: Neutron BytesFive people, including Larry Householder, the Speaker of Ohio’s House of Representatives, have been charged in a federal racketeering conspiracy involving $60M spent to pass legislation last year to provide financial support to two nuclear…
Belarus / Fuel Loading At First Nuclear Plant Scheduled For August
Source: NucNetFuel loading for Unit 1 of the Belarusian nuclear power station is scheduled to begin in August this year, according to a report by state news agency Belta. Vasily Polyukhovich, director of the nuclear energy…
Russia / First Full Batch of MOX Fuel Produced For Beloyarsk-4 Fast Neutron Reactor
Topics: Fuel & WasteSource: NucNetRussia has manufactured the first full reload batch of fresh uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for the Beloyarsk-4 BN-800 fast neutron reactor. State nuclear fuel company Tvel said the 169 fuel assemblies, manufactured at the…
Haleu / Energy Secretary Says Processing Could Begin Next Year
Source: NucNetThe US Department of Energy is working to end US reliance on Russia for nuclear fuel and plans to begin processing US uranium into high-grade fuel at a DOE facility in Portsmouth, Ohio, as early…
Myrrha Reactor / Belgium’s SCK•CEN Announces Development Milestone
Topics: Research & TechnologySource: NucNetThe Myrrha project has achieved a development milestone after researchers at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) succeeded for the first time in accelerating a proton beam through the recently connected radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ).…