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Industry Group Foratom Highlights Benefits Of Nuclear For Europe
Source: NucNet8 Feb (NucNet): Nuclear energy can help the European Union achieve a sustainable and low-carbon future while providing people with reliable and affordable electricity, the Brussels-based industry group Foratom has said in a position paper.…
Macron Says France To Decide On New EPRs Around 2022
Source: NucNet8 Feb (NucNet): French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday the country will decide around 2022 whether state-owned utility EDF will be allowed to build new nuclear reactors. …
Trump Plans For Domestic Uranium Quota ‘Could Put Nuclear Industry At Risk’
Source: NucNet7 Feb (NucNet): A Trump administration proposal to set quotas on domestic uranium could put the country’s nuclear power sector at risk, the US Nuclear Energy Institute said, according to reports. …
Used Nuclear Fuel Shipment Arrives In France From The Netherlands’ Borssele
Topics: Fuel & WasteSource: NucNet7 Feb (NucNet): A railway shipment of about 6.4 tonnes of used nuclear fuel from the Netherlands has arrived at Orano’s railway terminal in Valognes, northern France, to be treated at the company’s La Hague…
Taipower Rules Out Restart Of Lungmen Nuclear Station Project
Source: NucNet6 Feb (NucNet): State-run Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) has ruled out restarting the Lungmen nuclear power station project, where work was halted following the March 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident in Japan. …
South Korean Regulator Approves Start Of Shin-Kori-4
Source: NucNet6 Feb (NucNet): South Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission has approved the start of the Shin-Kori-4 nuclear unit near Busan in the southeast of the country, it said in a statement. …
Second Steam Generator Installed In Fuqing 6
Source: NewsThe second steam generator for China National Nuclear Corporation’s Fuqing Unit 6 has been successfully installed, the company announced.
Terrestrial Energy And NRG Sign Contract For Generation IV Materials Testing At Petten
Source: NucNet5 Feb (NucNet): Terrestrial Energy, developer of Generation-IV advanced nuclear power plants that use its proprietary integral molten salt reactor technology, has signed a contract for materials testing at NRG’s High-Flux research reactor at Petten…
Belgium’s Radioactive Waste Agency Submits Application For Dessel Facility
Source: NucNet5 Feb (NucNet): Belgium’s National Agency for Radioactive Waste and Fissile Materials (Ondraf/Niras) today filed an application for the construction of a facility for the final disposal of low- and medium-activity nuclear waste. …
Despite Referendum, Taiwan Intends To Go Ahead With Nuclear Phaseout
Source: NucNet4 Feb (NucNet): Taiwan will maintain its goal of abolishing nuclear power by May 2025, despite the outcome of last November’s referendum that required the removal of an article of legislation calling for all six…
Czech Republic Unlikely To Hold New Nuclear Tender This Year, Says Minister
Source: NucNet4 Feb (NucNet): The Czech Republic is unlikely to hold a tender to build new nuclear power reactors this year because the financing structure has still not been decided, industry minister Marta Novakova said on…
Rooppur Units On Target To Be Commissioned By 2024, Bangladesh Tells IAEA
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet1 Feb (NucNet): Bangladesh plans to produce 9% of its electricity from nuclear power and reduce its dependence on fossil fuels by the middle of the next decade when both reactors of a new nuclear…
NRG And Curium Sign Multi-Year Agreement For Mo-99 Production
Source: NucNet31 Jan (NucNet): NRG and Curium have signed a multi-year agreement for the production of Molybdenum-99, the base material for producing Technetium-99 (Tc-99m), which is used in millions of medical diagnostic procedures a year. …
IAEA Says Progress Has Been Made At Fukushima, But Contaminated Water Management Remains Critical
Source: NucNet31 Jan (NucNet): Significant progress has been made to move Fukushima-Daiichi from an emergency situation to a stabilised situation but management of contaminated water remains critical to the success of decommissioning, an International Atomic Energy…
DUF6 Conversion Off To Strong Restart, Says DOE
Source: NewsThe U.S. Department of Energy’s Officer of Environmental Management (EM), charged with addressing the country’s Cold War legacy, said this week that the program to convert uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) into a more stable form had…
Shutdown Plans Do Not Signal ‘Nuclear Exit Strategy’, Says French Minister
Source: NucNet30 Jan (NucNet): Nuclear energy plays an important role in France’s energy strategy and plans to permanently shut down four to six reactor units by 2028 do not indicate that the government has a nuclear…
Westinghouse Working To Revive VVER-440 Fuel Manufacturing Capacity, Says CEO
Source: NucNet30 Jan (NucNet): US-based Westinghouse Electric Company is working to restore its capacity to manufacture nuclear fuel for VVER-440 pressurised water reactor designs, according to the company’s chief executive officer Jose Emeterio Gutierrez. …
Orano Signs Strategic Agreement With Bureau Veritas
Source: NewsNuclear power services giant Orano Group, formerly Areva, said its logistics division, Orano TN, had concluded a strategic partnership agreement with testing and certification company Bureau Veritas. The agreement is meant to support “the development…
Doel 2 Close To Reconnection To Grid
Source: NewsThe nuclear power regulator in Belgium, the Federal Agency for Nuclear Control, has authorized the restart of Doel Unit 2, which is now scheduled for grid connection on February 4, plant operator Engie Electrabel said.
Russia Loads First Accident-Tolerant Fuel Assemblies Into MIR Research Reactor
Source: NucNet29 Jan (NucNet): The first Russian-made experimental nuclear fuel assemblies based on accident-tolerant fuel, or ATF, have been loaded for testing into the water loops of the Mir research reactor at the State Research Institute…