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Rosatom Notes Construction Milestone At Kursk NPP-2
Source: NewsThe cantilever truss, the second piece of the ‘melt trap’, with the weight of 145 tons and the diameter of over 9 meters, has been installed at its final position, under the reactor vault, at…
China Nuclear Energy News for 06/14/20
Source: Neutron BytesChinese Nuclear Generating Capacity to Double by 2030 HTGR at Shandong Delayed CFR600 Advanced Reactor Expected to Complete Construction in 2023 China Faces Mixed Futures in the UK Huawei Issues Threaten UK Nuclear New Build…
Federal Agency Airs Plan to Finance Exports of Nuclear Power Plants
Source: Neutron BytesWith a eye towards eventually helping the U.S. compete in the global nuclear market to counter the export efforts by Russia and China, a key federal agency announced June 10th that it has opened a…
Westinghouse Teams With Guardhat For Digital Systems
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company and Guardhat announced Tuesday that they will deliver the first connected worker solution to the nuclear energy industry.
Bilfinger Lands Two Hinkley Project Contracts
Source: NewsEuropean industrial services provider Bilfinger announced this week that it had signed two new contracts worth $397.5 million to deliver the design, procurement, supplier management, fabrication and construction of pipework and specialist equipment for the…
Canadian Joint Project To Develop Micro Modular Reactor
Source: NewsCanadian small nuclear power developer Global First Power Ltd. said Tuesday that it had formed a joint enterprise with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) and Ontario Power Generation (OPG) with the goal of building, owning…
Japan’s HTGR Gets Green Light for Restart
Source: Neutron BytesJapan HTGR Cleared to Resume Operations Japan’s Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant Gets Safety Review OK’d Recent NRC Actions for Two Proposed Interim Storage Sites for Spent Nuclear Fuel Japan HTGR Cleared to Resume Operations The…
Restart Approved For Japan's HTGR Reactor
Source: NewsThe Japan Atomic Energy Agency today received permission from the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) for changes to reactor installation of the country's high-temperature engineering test reactor, in conformity to the New Regulatory Requirements. This marks…
Big News for Big Iron in UK and Czech Republic
Source: Neutron BytesFrench Utility EDF has Submitted an Application to Build Two 1600 MW EPRs at the Sizewell C Site in the UK The Government of the Czech Republic Will Lend its State Owned Utility CEZ up…
Safety Upgrades In Japan Deter Restarts
Source: NewsA report from Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's national newspapers, said that the Kyushu Electric Power Company is closing down operations of the Sendai Unit 2 nuclear power plant for failure to complete a remote-operations…
Russia's Floating NPP Fully Commissioned
Source: NewsRussian nuclear corporation Rosatom said this week that the floating nuclear power plant in Pevek, in the Chukotka region of the Russian Far East had been fully commissioned following approval by the country's nuclear watchdog…
New Lamps for Old: Australia, Puerto Rico Open to Efforts for Small Modular Reactors
Source: Neutron BytesAustralia / Government To Examine SMRs As Part Of Energy Planning Puerto Rico / New Report Finds Small Modular Reactors are Feasible U.S. / New TVA Board Members Support Development Work for SMRs France /…
A Short Stack of Hot Nuclear News 5/23/20
Source: Neutron BytesStarCore Nuclear Gets A Boost from Partnership with Investment Bank X-energy to Irradiate TRISO-X fuel with MIT’s Nuclear Reactor Lab Kairos Power and Materion Partner To Develop And Supply Materials For Advanced Reactor Technology NASA…
Welding Milestone At Roopur Site
Source: NewsThe Volgodonsk branch of AEM Technologies had completed the closing weld that connected the two halves of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) being manufactured for unit 1 of the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh,…
Cold Testing Completed At Barakah Unit 4
Source: NewsThe Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said Tuesday that Cold Hydrostatic Testing (CHT) at Unit 4 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant had been completed.
DOE Kicks Off Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program
Source: Neutron BytesCost sharing with industry is a key element of the $230M program The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced this week the launch of the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) within the Office of Nuclear…
Fuel Delivered To First Belarusian NPP
Source: NewsThe first batch of low-enriched uranium nuclear fuel has been delivered to the construction site of Belarusian NPP. The Russian-made fuel assemblies are currently being prepared for unloading and inspection, Russia's nuclear giant Rosatom said…
EDF To Maintain Sizewell B At Reduced Capacity
Source: NewsThe National Grid ESO in Britain has requested that EDF Energy keep the 1198 MWe Sizewell B reactor on lower output to compensate for decreased demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.
South Africa Takes Another Run for Nuclear Energy
Source: Neutron BytesSouth Africa to Make Another Run at Nuclear Energy Czech Government Takes New Steps for New Nuclear Power at Dukovany European Union May Reject Challenge to UK Over Hinkley Plant Barakah / Coronavirus Will Not…
Bruce Power, Rejuvenated Unit 1, Sets Generation Record
Source: NewsOn April 30, the Unit 1 nuclear reactor marked 624 consecutive days of steady operation, setting a new record for its post-2012 return to operation production life. It bested Unit 8 by one day.