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Oglethorpe Power Reviewing Prospects For Completion Of Vogtle-3 And -4
Source: NucNet20 Aug (NucNet): Electricity cooperative Oglethorpe Power is reviewing whether it will support continuing with the Vogtle nuclear station expansion project in the US state of Georgia following an increase in costs, chief executive officer…
Oglethorpe Power Board To Revisit Commitment To Vogtle Expansion
Source: NewsA critical vote in September by the board members at Oglethorpe Power, owners of 30 percent of the Plant Vogtle expansion project in Georgia, could decide the fate of the project, where Georgia Power recently…
Court Sets Date For Sellafield Ltd Trial Over Alleged Exposure Incident
Source: NucNet17 Aug (NucNet): A provisional trial date has been set over an alleged health and safety breach by Sellafield Ltd involving an employee being exposed to plutonium at the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, northwest…
FirstEnergy Solutions Files Training Plan For Plant Closures
Source: NewsOhio-based FirstEnergy Solutions said Wednesday that it had submitted plans with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission detailing how it would train its staff to begin decommissioning at three of its nuclear power plants – the David-Besse…
Polish Cabinet To Approve Updated Nuclear Plan By Year’s End, Says Official
Source: NucNet16 Aug (NucNet): A long-pending update of Poland’s nuclear power programme is expected to be approved by the Polish cabinet by the end of 2018, according to comments by Tadeusz Skobel, a deputy energy minister.…
Nordic-Russian Emergency Preparedness Exercise Will Be First With Joint Activities, Confirms Sweden
Topics: Safety & EnvironmentSource: NucNet16 Aug (NucNet): A Nordic-Russian emergency preparedness exercise for a nuclear incident to be held in Sweden in 2019 will be the first such exercise involving joint activities, Sweden’s regulator has said. …
India Says It Is Planning To Increase Installed Nuclear Capacity By 15,700 MW
Source: NucNet15 Aug (NucNet): India’s installed nuclear power capacity is expected to rise from 6,780 MW to 22,480 MW by 2031, an increase of 15,700 MW (gross), the department of atomic energy told parliament. …
Investment Fund Buys $8.2 Million Of Uranium From Kazakhstan
Source: NucNet15 Aug (NucNet): An investment fund designed to profit from the rising price of uranium has acquired a large shipment of uranium from Kazakhstan for $8.2m. …
Canada Extends Pickering NPP License With Closure Caveat
Source: NewsThe Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced on August 8 that it would renew Ontario Power Generation Inc.’s (OPG) Nuclear Power Reactor Operating Licence for the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station (PNGS) located in Pickering, Ontario.
AP1000 Units In China Notch Operational Milestones
Source: NewsFour Westinghouse AP1000 reactor construction projects in China nearing completion continue to pass operational milestones on their way towards commercial operating status, the latest represented by the Sanmen Unit 1 reactor in Zhejiang province that…
First AP1000 Nuclear Plant At Sanmen Reaches Full Power
Source: NucNet14 Aug (NucNet): The Sanmen-1 Generation III+ Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor unit in eastern China today reached 100% of its design power capacity for the first time, developer China State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC)…
SNC-Lavalin Signs Fuel Contract With China's Qinshan Nuclear Power Company
Source: NewsSNC-Lavalin said it had signed an engineering service contract and a licensing agreement with China’s Third Qinshan Nuclear Power Company Limited (TQNPC) to implement 37M Natural Uranium Equivalent (NUE) fuel, a mixture of depleted and…
Federal Government Seeks New Rationale For Supporting Nuclear
Source: NewsA top official with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has said that the federal government is attempting to create a list of power plants that are considered too valuable to lose in the event…
Nuclear News Roundup for August 13, 2018
Source: Neutron BytesChina’s Haiyang-1 AP1000 Reaches First Criticality (NucNet): The Haiyang-1 Generation III+ Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor unit in Shandong province reached first criticality on August 8th according to a statement from the China State Nuclear Power…
Japan’s Chugoku Electric Asks Regulator To Assess Shimane-3
Source: NucNet13 Aug (NucNet): Japanese utility Chugoku Electric Power Company has asked the Nuclear Regulation Authority to assess the compliance of the unfinished Shimane-3 nuclear power plant with post-Fukushima revised safety standards. …
UK Will Remain Committed To Euratom Research Programme After Brexit, Says Gov’t
Source: NucNet10 Aug (NucNet): The UK fully supports plans to extend Euratom’s research and training programme and remains financially committed to it despite Brexit, the government said in a paper on the country’s participation in the…
Comprehensive Final Testing Underway At Russia’s Leningrad 2-1, Says Rosatom
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet9 Aug (NucNet): Comprehensive final testing has begun 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. …
Turkey To Build Third Nuclear Station In Cooperation With China, Says Minister
Source: NucNet9 Aug (NucNet): Turkey will build a third nuclear power station in the Thrace region northwest of Istanbul, and will cooperate with China on the project, energy minister Fatih Donmez was reported as saying. …
China’s Haiyang-1 Becomes Second AP1000 To Reach First Criticality
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet8 Aug (NucNet): The Haiyang-1 Generation III+ Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor unit in Shandong province, northeast China, reached first criticality today at 10:42 local time, developer China State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) said. …
Orano To Supply Fuel Storage System To Wolf Creek NPP
Source: NewsOrano TN, the Orano subsidiary providing used fuel management and transportation services, has been selected by Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Company (WCNOC) to design, build and implement dry fuel storage at the Wolf Creek Generating…