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NRC Approves Final Safety Evaluation Of APR 1400 Design
Source: NewsThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a final safety evaluation report and standard design approval for Korea Electric Power Corporation and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power’s Advanced Power Reactor 1400 (APR1400), a step that…
Switzerland May Need Fossil Fuels To Replace Nuclear ‘Energy Gap,’ Says IEA Report
Source: NucNet9 Oct (NucNet): Switzerland’s nuclear phaseout will create an energy gap of at least 20 TWh a year that will need to be replaced with other generation technologies, possibly including new fossil fuel capacity, a…
Centrus Contracted To Decommission K-1600 Facility
Source: NewsNuclear fuel and service provider Centrus Energy Corp. said Friday that it had been awarded a $15 million Work Authorization from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for decontamination and decomissioning (D&D) that will focus…
Report ‘Rightly Concludes’ That Nuclear Has a Role, Says Foratom
Source: NucNet8 Oct (NucNet): The report published today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) rightly concludes that nuclear power has a key role to play in fighting global warming and that renewables alone cannot…
Major UN Climate Change Report Outlines Key Role For Nuclear
Source: NucNet8 Oct (NucNet): The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly…
INL’s Rita Baranwal Nominated to be DOE A/Sec of Nuclear Energy
Source: Neutron BytesThe post, which has been vacant for almost two years, will be filled by a superbly qualified nuclear technology manager Rita Baranwal The Idaho Falls Post Register reported this week that Rita Barta the head…
DOD Seeks SMRs for Tactical Readiness at Military Bases
Source: Neutron BytesA Big Move Toward Small: Micro-reactors and the Pentagon The Problem: U.S. military bases in this country and on foreign soil face a unique challenge – the need for 100% uninterrupted access to a working…
Rosatom Closes In On Six-Reactor Deal With India
Source: NewsFollowing a leadership summit in India, Russian and Indian leaders signed a pact that could pave the way for a six-reactor construction deal at a site yet to be determined.
Industry Needs To Start Work ‘Immediately’ On Micro-Reactors For Defence Installations, Says NEI
Source: NucNet5 Oct (NucNet): The nuclear industry should immediately begin working with the US regulator to explore options for accelerating the review of micro-reactors and speeding up the process for training and licensing operators, the Nuclear…
US Indicts Russians In Hacking Of Nuclear Company Westinghouse
Source: NucNet5 Oct (NucNet): A grand jury in Pennsylvania has indicted seven defendants, all officers in the Russian intelligence directorate (GRU), for computer hacking, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering, including the attempted hacking…
Fuel Loaded Into World's Only Floating NPP
Source: NewsRussian nuclear power giant Rosatom said Wednesday that Baltijskiy Zavod specialists completed (on October 2, 2018) loading nuclear fuel into the second of two reactors – the portside reactor – of the world-only floating nuclear…
U.S. DOE Extends Cleanup Contract At Portsmouth Diffusion Plant
Source: NewsU.S. Department of Energy has has extended Fluor-BWXT's Portsmouth's cleanup and decommissioning contract at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, Ohio, with a 30-month extension valued at approximately $850 million, BWXT announced.
Olkiluoto-3 Commissioning Tests Not Going To Schedule, Says TVO
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet4 Oct (NucNet): Commissioning tests at the Olkiluoto-3 nuclear unit under construction in Finland have not been progressing in line with an updated schedule issued by plant supplier Areva-Siemens in June, nuclear operator Teollisuuden Voima…
ASN Widens Probe Of Flamanville 3 Welding
Source: NewsFrench regulator ASN (Autorite De Surete Nucleaire) chastised the utility EDF this week in a letter that says that certain welds at the nearly completed Flamanville 3 reactor in Normandy have not been monitored correctly,…
Flamanville Weldings May Need More Repairs Than Originally Thought, Says Regulator
Source: NucNet3 Oct (NucNet): Faulty weldings at the Flamanville-3 EPR being built by state-controlled utility EDF in Normandy, northern France, may need more repairs than originally estimated and EDF will have to carry out a quality…
Reactor Developer Transatomic Power Closes Shop
Source: NewsNuclear reactor developer Transatomic Power, which aimed to create molten-salt reactor and make use of used reactor fuel, said Tuesday that it is shuttering its operations and would open source its intellectual property to other…
Supreme Court Rejects Industry’s Plea To Hear Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Case
Source: NucNet2 Oct (NucNet): The US Supreme Court yesterday said it would not hear a case challenging the government’s ban on uranium mining in the Grand Canyon. …
Fuel Loading Begins Of Second Floating Nuclear Station Reactor, Says Russia
Source: NucNet2 Oct (NucNet): Russia has begun loading fuel into the second of two nuclear reactor units on the floating nuclear power station Akademik Lomonosov, state nuclear corporation Rosatom said. …
Operational Staff On Board For Ostravets NPP Unit 1
Source: NewsThe head of training at the nearly complete Belarus Nuclear Power Plant in Ostravets said nearly all of the jobs involved in operating Unit 1, scheduled to be operational in the middle of next year,…
Trump Signs Legislation That Will ‘Speed Up Development Of Advanced Reactors’
Source: NucNet1 Oct (NucNet): President Donald Trump signed into law new legislation that will speed up the development of advanced reactors in the US, the Department of Energy said on 28 September 2018. …