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News ~ A Six Pack of Big Iron Projects
Topics: New ReactorsSource: Neutron BytesUAE Begins Fuel Loading at Barakah 1 Czeck Republic Near Committment to Build New Unit at Dokovany Romania to Build a Third Unit at Cerandova with European Partners Poland in Negotiations with U.S., France for…
EDF Touts Hinkley Point C Supply Chain Jobs
Source: NewsA contract awarded by Hinkley Point C to industrial engineering firm Bilfinger will trigger investment and new jobs for UK manufacturing on Humberside, French utility EDF said on Tuesday.
Chernobyl Fungi Headed To Space Station
Source: NewsAccording to Russia’s Cosmonautics News, fungus samples taken from the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster site are in for a long ride. Some samples of the fungus, said Nuclear Engineering International, will be taken into outer…
Step 3 Of UK HPR1000 Review Completed
Source: NewsBritain's Office of Nuclear Regulation has completed Step 3 of the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of the UK HPR1000 design, and taken the decision to progress to Step 4 of the GDA, the agency said.
Orano To Dismantle Marcoule Site Storage Pools
Source: NewsFrench nuclear power service company said it had been awarded the contract to dismantle two stainless steel interim storage pools at the Marcoule site in south-east France in a deal worth several million euros.
Egyptian Technicians Training At Kursk II NPP
Source: NewsRussian nuclear power giant Rosatom said this week that Egyptian technicians had arrived at the Kursk II Nuclear Power Station to begin training that will be applied to Egypt's new El Dabaa NPP.
Trump Tweets Reversal On Yucca Mountain
Source: NewsThe country’s 80,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, stored now in 35 states at 121 sites, will not be headed to Yucca Mountain after all, President Trump said in a tweet this week.
SNC-Lavalin Lands Wolsong Service Contracts
Source: NewsCanadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin said Tuesday it had been awarded four contracts by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd, to conduct assessments and computer code upgrades at the Wolsong site in Korea.
Italy Begins Shipments Of Radsludge to Slovakia
Source: NewsThe first of the 33 transports scheduled for the transfer of about 5,600 drums, containing resin and radioactive sludge, started from the Caroso nuclear power plant (Piacenza) at the Bohunice plant in Slovakia for their…
First Iter D-ring Field Coil Completed In Japan
Source: NewsJapanese manufacturers have completed construction of the first 360-metric ton D-shaped toroidal field coil for the ITER Tokamak project in France. The massive field coil will be shipped from the port of Kobe to France…
Will 2020s Be the Decade SMRs Take Off?
Source: Neutron BytesIf current developments with small modular reactors in first month of 2020 are any indication of interest in this scale of nuclear technology, the 2020s could be the decade that SMRs take off. Here are…
Rolls-Royce Targets 2029 For SMR Deployment
Source: NewsThe top technical officer for Britain’s engineering giant Rolls-Royce said this week that the company would focus on small modular reactors, which he expected would be operational in the UK within nine years.
Renovations Underway At Oldest U.S. Nuclear Facility
Source: NewsThe Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (EM)said that renovations are underway to prepare a facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to process a high-dose portion of the on-site uranium-233 inventory, enabling to…
INL VTR Gets First Expression of Interest
Source: Neutron BytesPlans by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to build the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) and complete it this decade got a boost this week. Two firms with deep expertise…
Rolls-Royce to Focus on Competitive Costs in UK for 440 MWe LWR Nuclear Reactor
Source: Neutron BytesThe Firm Targets End of this Decade for Roll Out of its 440 MWe Design While there is plenty of excitement in the U.S. over SMRs and miro reactors, across the pond in the U.K. the…
Ice Wall Coolant Leaks Found At Fukushima
Source: NewsThe Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) has confirmed that coolant is leaking from the pipes that maintain the underground ice wall at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster site.
Orano Completes Fuel Transfers To FOAK EOS Canisters
Source: NewsOrano TN has completed the transfer of 296 used nuclear fuel assemblies from a U.S. reactor’s wet storage pool to the onsite dry storage Independent Spent Fuel Storage Facility (ISFSI) using eight NUHOMS EOS 37PTH…
Westinghouse Contracted For Kozloduy NPP Project
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company said this week that it had signed a contract with Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Bulgaria to migrate the current Ovation platform-based information and control (I&C) systems at the plant's units…
South Korea’s SMART SMR Gets New Life
Source: Neutron BytesSaudi Arabia has updated its agreement with South Korea to complete a 100 MWe SMR, to license it for use in that country and to offer it for export. The joint project between the two…
CNL Lands Lingen Decommissioning Contract
Source: NewsCanadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) announced this week that it has been selected as a subcontractor by Atkins Energy Germany GmbH to participate in the decommissioning of RWE’s prototype boiling water reactor in Lingen, Germany.