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Japan To Continue Fuel Cycle Policy As Nuclear Pact With US Is Extended
Source: NucNet18 Jul (NucNet): A nuclear pact between Japan and the US has been automatically extended, allowing Tokyo to continue to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, extract plutonium and enrich uranium. …
Orano Signs Collaborative Roadmap With NDA
Source: NewsOrano has signed with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) a ‘Roadmap of Collaboration’ which will set out the way it will work together in advancing civil nuclear decommissioning, clean-up and hazard reduction. Orano
Q&A: How Nuclear Power Can Benefit From The Digital Revolution
Source: NucNet18 Jul (NucNet): The nuclear energy industry is coming to realise that digitalisation is paramount, but the challenge is to make sure digital technology is sustainable over the lifetime of a plant – and that…
Fluor Lands Naval Nuclear Laboratory Contract
Source: NewsFluor Corporation announced Tuesday that the U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have jointly awarded contracts to Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary…
Global Investment In Nuclear Down By 45%, Says IEA Report
Source: NucNet17 Jul (NucNet): Global investment in nuclear power declined by nearly 45% to $17bn in 2017 due to a 70% fall in spending on new plants coming online during the year to $9 billion, which…
DOE Announces New Awards For SMR Development
Source: NewsU.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry today announced the selection of nine domestic projects to receive nearly $20 million in funding for cost-shared research and development for advanced nuclear technologies.
Bechtel To Assist In BWRX-300 Construction Studies
Source: NewsEngineering and construction giant Becthel announced it will join forces with GE Hitachi, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Exelon Power Generation Company to investigate efficient ways to develop and build a nuclear power plant…
China’s Yangjiang-5 Ready For Commercial Operation, Says CGN
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet16 Jul (NucNet): CGN Power, a subsidiary of China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN), has completed a trial run of the Yangjiang-5 nuclear power plant in south China’s Guangdong Province and said the unit is…
Argonne’s IFR to Live Again at Point Lepreau, New Brunswick
Source: Neutron BytesARC Nuclear and New Brunswick Power (NB Power) have agreed to work together to take the necessary steps to develop, license, and build an advanced small modular reactor (SMR) based on ARC Nuclear’s Gen IV…
Skoda To Supply Hinkley Point C Upper Internals, Core Barrel
Source: NewsCzechoslovakian company SKODA JS said this week that it had finalized negotiations with French company Framatome with a contract to supply two sets of EPR 1600 reactor pressure vessels internals that are slated for the…
Belgium’s Doel-3 To Restart After Work To Reinforce Bunker Building
Source: NucNet13 Jul (NucNet): The Doel-3 nuclear power unit in Belgium is to be restarted in the coming days following the completion of work to reinforce a building that had been subject to concrete degradation. …
European Court Dismisses Austria’s Objections To Hinkley Point C
Source: NucNet12 Jul (NucNet): Europe’s second highest court has rejected Austrian objections to the planned Hinkley Point C nuclear station in southwest England, saying British government aid offered to the project did not violate EU rules.…
€31M ‘Breakthrough’ Plasma Melting Plant Begins Operations At Bulgaria’s Kozloduy Nuclear Station
Source: NucNet11 Jul (NucNet): A €31m plasma melting plant has started operations at the site of the Kozloduy nuclear power station in Bulgaria in what has been called a breakthrough in the treatment and disposal of…
EC Sets November As Deadline For Long-Term Energy Proposals
Source: NucNet10 Jul (NucNet): The European Commission is aiming to publish proposals for an EU strategy for long-term EU greenhouse gas emissions reductions by November 2018, climate action and energy commissioner Arias Cañete said in a…
Bangladesh Grants Construction License for Rooppur 2
Source: NewsThe nuclear power regulator in Bangladesh has granted a license for design and construction of a second reactor at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant that will be constructed by Russia, the state-owned nuclear power company…
ATS Contract Extension With Bruce Power Worth $43 Million
Source: NewsCanada's ATS Automation Tooling Systems said it reached a contract extension agreement with Bruce Power valued at CAD $60 million (US $43 million) involving design and delivery of robotic systems for removing and replacing 480…
Base Plate Completed At Kursk II, Unit 1
Source: NewsA report from the Kursk nuclear power plant in European Central Russia – near the Russian-Ukraine border – announced the completion of the base plate for the first of four VVER-TOI reactors planned for Kursk…
Licence Issued For Construction Of Second Reactor At Rooppur In Bangladesh
Source: NucNet9 Jul (NucNet): The Bangladeshi Atomic Energy Regulator has issued a licence approving the design and construction of the second Russia-supplied Generation III+ VVER nuclear power unit at the Rooppur nuclear power station, about 150…
China’s CGN Looking For Major Stake In UK Nuclear Fleet, Says Report
Source: NucNet9 Jul (NucNet): China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), the state-run corporation that owns 35% of the Hinkley Point C EPR project, is said to be interested in buying a major stake in the UK’s…
Japan Says Burning MOX is Key to Reduce Plutonium Stocks
Source: Neutron BytesEfforts to Speed Up Reactor Restarts Using MOX May Get Get a Boost Nuclear reactor restarts for units that can burn mixed oxide fuel (MOX) in Japan are now more likely following the release of…