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Japan’s Takahama-4 To Return To Service After Four-Month Outage
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NucNet30 Aug (NucNet): Unit-4 of the Takahama nuclear power station in Japan will be restarted on 31 August 2018 following a periodic inspection that lasted almost four months, owner and operator Kansai Electric Power Company…
Hanhikivi-1 Construction Start Scheduled For 2020, Says Finland’s Fennovoima
Source: NucNet29 Aug (NucNet): The company building the Hanhikivi-1 nuclear unit in northwest Finland says its target is to get the construction licence in 2019 and to begin construction in 2020, a spokeswoman told NucNet in…
NRC Goes With "Dose-Based" Emergency Planning For SMR Plants
Source: NewsIn a preliminary response to the Tennessee Valley Authority's early site permit application concerning a small nuclear reactor facility at Clinch River, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that safety mandates could be developed based on…
Cavendish Nuclear Tests Lightweight Plutonium Mapping System
Source: NewsCavandish Nuclear said it was testing a new system for mapping radioactive hotspots in a decommissioning project with technology that “promises to transform the decommissioning of redundant nuclear plant.” the company said.
Germany’s Radwaste Disposal Company To Cooperate With Federal Institute On Repository Selection
Source: NucNet28 Aug (NucNet): BGE, Germany’s state-owned radioactive waste disposal company, is to cooperate with the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) on the selection process for a national deep geologic repository site, BGE…
Sanmen Unit 2 Begins Ascension Testing
Source: NewsA third Westinghouse Electric Company designed AP1000 reactor in China is now supplying power to the grid, the China National Nuclear Corporation along with partner State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation announced on Friday.
NRC To Review SONGS Storage Canister Incident
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it would send team to the San Onore Nuclear Generatng Station to review an incident that came to light on August 13, after a spent fuel storage canister became stuck…
South Africa Puts Plans For New Nuclear Plants On Hold
Source: NucNet27 Aug (NucNet): Plans to expand the South Africa’s nuclear power capacity by building up to 9,600 MW of new nuclear plants have been put on hold at least until 2030, the government has announced.…
Spending On Bradwell B Giving Locals A Lift
Source: NewsLocal media near Bradwell, site of the future Bradwell B Nuclear Power Plant of Chinese design, are reporting that the region is already feeling associated economic benefits through work involving preliminary site study work concerning…
UK Regulator To Prosecute Companies Over Incident At Hinkley Point B
Source: NucNet24 Aug (NucNet): The UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has told EDF Energy Nuclear Generation and Doosan Babcock that it intends to prosecute both companies over an incident on 12 April 2017 at the…
Where Does EPA's ACE Proposal Leave Nuclear Power?
Source: NewsThe Trump administration's Affordable Clean Energy plan (ACE) designates steps for states to manage performances of power plants with customized on-site targets, a boon to coal-fired power plants. Does this open the door assistance for…
Bechtel Selected As Construction Manager For Wylfa Newydd NPP
Source: NewsEngineering and construction giant Bechtel said Thursday that it had been selected as the project manager by Horizon Nuclear Power for the two-reactor project slated for Wales in the United Kingdom.
UK Will Not Be Able To Contribute To Iter Without Brexit Deal, Says Government
Source: NucNet23 Aug (NucNet): If the UK and the EU fail to reach an agreement on Brexit terms, the UK will no longer be a member of the Euratom R&T programme, no longer be a member…
Cold Testing Complete At Slovakia’s Mochovce-3 Nuclear Plant
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet23 Aug (NucNet): Slovenske elektrarne has successfully completed cold testing at Unit 3 of the Mochovce nuclear power station under construction in western Slovakia, the company said in a statement on 23 August 2018. …
Russia’s Leningrad-1 To Shut Down Permanently In December, Says Report
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NucNet23 Aug (NucNet): Russia’s Leningrad-1 nuclear power plant, which began commercial operation in November 1974, will be shut down permanently in December 2018, the Interfax news agency said, quoting station director Vladimir Pereguda. …
Final Testing Complete At Russia’s Leningrad 2-1
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet22 Aug (NucNet): Comprehensive final testing has been completed at the Leningrad 2-1 nuclear power plant under construction in Sosovny Bor on the Gulf of Finland in northwest Russia, state nuclear corporation Rosatom said. …
Horizon Appoints Bechtel As Project Management Contractor For Wylfa Newydd Nuclear Station
Source: NucNet22 Aug (NucNet): Horizon Nuclear Power today announced it has appointed US-based engineering and construction company Bechtel as project management contractor for its proposed £20bn Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station on the Isle of Anglesey,…
GSE Awarded Contracts In Korea And Slovakia
Source: NewsGSE Systems of Columbia, Maryland, said it had been awarded two contracts to update power plant simulators at two separate nuclear facilities. The contracts, the company said, are valued at approximately $8 million.
CGN UK Says Bradwell B Costs Will Not Be Known ‘For A Few Years’
Source: NucNet21 Aug (NucNet): The company behind the project to build a UK version of China’s HPR1000 nuclear plant at Bradwell B in Essex, England, will not know the cost of the project until site suitability…
As South Korea Plans To Reduce Nuclear, Energy Imports Remain Among Highest In World
Source: NucNet20 Aug (NucNet): South Korea, whose government is planning to reduce the proportion of nuclear power in the country’s energy mix, is “one of the world’s leading energy importers” and relies on imports to meet…