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Finland Approves Extended Operation For Olkiluoto-1 And -2
Source: NucNet20 Sep (NucNet): The Finnish government today approved the extension of the operating licences for the Olkiluoto-1 and -2 nuclear power plants until 2038, owner-operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj said in a statement. …
World Nuclear Association's Rising Calls For Nuclear Power Future
Source: NewsIn a public conference taking place in Vienna concurrent with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 62nd General Conference, Agneta Rising, the head of the World Nuclear Association, challenged the United Nations and the nuclear power…
Inspections Reveal Concrete Degradation In Buildings At Belgium’s Tihange-2 And Doel-4
Source: NucNet19 Sep (NucNet): Inspections in August at the Tihange-2 and Doel-4 nuclear power plants in Belgium have shown concrete degradation in the ceilings of bunkerised buildings that house backup safety systems for the plants, the…
Fort Calhoun Owners Consider Decon-style Decommissioning
Source: NewsThe board of directors of the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), owners of the retired Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Nebraska have investigated the option of moving decommissioning to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission designated…
Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant Shut Down For Good, Exelon Confirms.
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NucNet18 Sep (NucNet): Operators took the Oyster Creek nuclear reactor unit offline for the final time at 12:00 local time yesterday, making it the seventh nuclear unit to be retired in the US in the…
Belgium’s Looming Nuclear Phaseout Is Putting Energy Supply At Risk, Says Forum
Source: NucNet18 Sep (NucNet): There is a risk that Belgium will not be able to guarantee its energy supply following the phaseout of the country’s nuclear reactor fleet, with the deadline for the first shutdowns only…
Centrus Energy, Doosan Heavy Equipment, Sign MOU
Source: NewsU.S.-based Centrus Energy Corp., a nuclear fuel-supply and engineering company, said Monday that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Korean conglomerate Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction to work towards development of the…
Oyster Creek To Become Seventh US Reactor To Retire In Past Five Years
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NucNet17 Sep (NucNet): The single-unit Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey is scheduled to be permanently shut down today after 49 years of commercial operation – the seventh US nuclear power plant to…
Significant Increase In All Low-Carbon Energy Needed To Meet Climate Targets, Says IAEA
Source: NucNet17 Sep (NucNet): A significant increase of all clean, low-carbon technologies such as nuclear power is needed if climate change targets set under the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…
New Fire Nuclear Movie Set for General Release in October
Source: Neutron BytesAfter playing at a series of prestigious film festivals, the movie New Fire about the development of innovative nuclear reactor technologies by multiple independent teams is slated for general release online next month. ( Trailer…
US Regulator Prepares For Storm As Duke Energy Shuts Down Brunswick Reactors
Source: NucNet14 Sep (NucNet): The US nuclear regulator is staffing its incident response centre in Atlanta around the clock as it expands its monitoring of Hurricane Florence and its effects on nuclear power plants and other…
NRC Prepares To Meet And Greet Hurricane Florence
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Thursday it would be out in force reviewing safety and security protocols required by several nuclear power plants to prepare themselves for and withstand the blunt force of a powerful…
UK Announces Feasibility Studies For Small Modular Reactor Development
Source: NucNet13 Sep (NucNet): The UK government has announced that eight organisations have been awarded contracts to produce feasibility studies as part of the first phase of an advanced small modular reactor feasibility and development project…
US Regulator ‘Reviewing Preparations’ As Hurricane Florence Approaches Nuclear States
Source: NucNet13 Sep (NucNet): The US nuclear regulator’s resident inspectors at nuclear stations in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia are reviewing the plant operators’ preparations in advance of Hurricane Florence, projected to…
Nuvia Awarded Dungeness Waste Transfer Facility Contract
Source: NewsNuclear engineering and project management concern Nuvia, based in Britain, said it had been awarded a contract to design, supply, integrate and commission plant and equipment for the Dungeness Waste Transfer Area Facility (WTA).
NuGen Announces Redundancies At UK’s Moorside Nuclear Project
Source: NucNet12 Sep (NucNet): More than 60 employees at Toshiba’s NuGen unit — the company tasked with building three Westinghouse Generation III+ AP1000 units Moorside in northwest England — will lose their jobs, the company announced…
EDF Must Prove EPR Nuclear Reactors Are Viable, Says Minister
Source: NucNet11 Sep (NucNet): France’s state-controlled utility and nuclear operator EDF needs to show a new generation of nuclear reactors work well, which is not for now the case, new environment minister Francois de Rugy said…
France’s Orano Inaugurates New Uranium Conversion Plant At Tricastin
Source: NucNet11 Sep (NucNet): French nuclear group Orano has inaugurated a €1.15bn uranium conversion plant at its Tricastin site in southern France. …
CNNC Installs Four Major Karachi Components In 19 Days
Source: NewsChina National Nuclear Corporation said last week that it had reached a construction milestone at the Karachi nuclear power plant in Pakistan, where workers installed the plant's Unit 3 pressure vessel on Sept. 5. It…
NRC Approves Dominion-SCANA Merger
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday that it had approved an indirect transfer of the South Carolina Electric and Gas Company's two-thirds interest in the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Units 1,2, and 3, and…