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Westinghouse Completes Decommissioning Project At Sweden’s Barseback
Topics: Fuel & WasteSource: NucNet16 Mar (NucNet): US-based Westinghouse Electric Company has completed a decommissioning project at the Barseback nuclear power station in Sweden that included the underwater segmentation and packaging of the reactor vessel internals. …
Pakistan’s Kanupp Reactors Scheduled For Completion In 2021 And 2022
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet15 Mar (NucNet): The Kanupp-2 and -3 nuclear power reactors under construction in Pakistan are scheduled to be completed in 2021 and 2022 respectively, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Yukiya Amano was told on a…
Beznau Unit 1 Cleared For Restart
Source: NewsThe Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) has cleared the Beznau power plant's Unit 1 reactor for a restart after utility company Axpo proved that aluminum oxide inclusions discovered in the reactor pressure vessel (RPV)…
NRC Issues Entergy Confirmatory Order
Source: NewsThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday they had issued a Confirmatory Order to Entergy Nuclear Operations and Entergy Operations, Inc., to prevent what the agency called willful misconduct in a case that centers on…
Ohi-3 Becomes Sixth Unit To Restart In Japan Since Fukushima
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NucNet14 Mar (NucNet): Japanese nuclear operator Kansai Electric Power Company restarted the Ohi-3 nuclear reactor unit on 14 March 2018 at 17:00 local time, a statement by the company said. …
Leningrad II Unit 1 Synchronized To Grid
Source: NewsCalling it a “remarkable event,” Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, said Tuesday that the Leningrad Phase II Unit 1 on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland had been synchronized to the national…
Siempelkamp Announces Chemical Decontamination System
Source: NewsGerman nuclear development company Siempelkamp NIS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH said it had developed a chemical additive for nuclear power plant cooling systems that works by detaching radioactive contamination adhering to the inner system surfaces with the…
France’s Regulator Says Fessenheim-2 Steam Generator Is Fit For Service
Source: NucNet13 Mar (NucNet): France’s nuclear regulator ASN said on 12 March 2018 that a steam generator at state-controlled utility EDF’s Fessenheim-2 nuclear power plant in the east of the country is fit for service. …
Westinghouse Poised For Fuel Diversifying In Europe
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company and its eight European consortium partners today announced the successful completion of an EU funded project targeted at diversifying the nuclear fuel supply to VVER-440 reactors in Europe.
BWXT Nuclear Extends Fuel Agreement With OPG
Source: NewsBWX Technologies, Inc. said Monday that its subsidiary BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada Inc. had signed a $168 million, five-year contract extension to manufacture fuel for Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) Darlington and Pickering nuclear generating stations.…
TVO Signs €450 Million Settlement Agreement With Olkiluoto-3 Suppliers
Source: NucNet12 Mar (NucNet): Teollisuuden Voima Oyj has signed a settlement agreement with the companies supplying the Olkiluoto-3 EPR unit in Finland which includes compensation of €450m ($553m) to be paid in two installments, TVO said…
Q&A: MIT And Its Big Push For Fusion Energy
Topics: Research & TechnologySource: NucNet12 Mar (NucNet): The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced plans to work with a newly formed private company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), to realise the promise of fusion as a source of unlimited,…
Georgia Power Touts 13-Hour Concrete Pour
Source: NewsGeorgia Power on Thursday announced the latest construction milestone at the Vogtle nuclear expansion near Waynesboro, Georgia, calling attention to a 13-plus hour continuous concrete placement for the Unit 4 "turbine tabletop."
Brexit: UK Has Made Substantial Progress On Key Euratom Talks, Says Minister
Topics: Policy & RegulationSource: NucNet9 Mar (NucNet): The government has made substantial progress in talks with key international partners to have new bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements and ensure that arrangements are in place for continuity for the nuclear sector…
France Releases Report On ‘Significant Events’ At Civil Nuclear Facilities
Topics: Safety & EnvironmentSource: NucNet8 Mar (NucNet): A report made public today by IRSN, the technical arm of French nuclear regulator ASN, shows there were 233 significant events in civil nuclear facilities reported to ASN in 2015 and 218…
Plant Hatch Reloaded With First Of Kind Fuel Assemblies
Source: NewsOperators at the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant in Alabama on Sunday safely returned Unit 1 to service following a planned refueling and maintenance outage that began Feb. 4 at 9:28 p.m., local time. The…
Yucca Mountain: Can The US Finally End The $12 Billion Impasse?
Source: NucNet7 Mar (NucNet): A US federal advisory panel recently took a step in what could be a lengthy process to determine if a deep geological nuclear waste repository should finally be built at Yucca Mountain,…
Vermont Yankee Sale Would Accelerate Decommissioning
Source: NewsThe sale of the shuttered Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vt., could result in an accelerated schedule for decommissioning for the 620-MW plant that shut down at the end of 2014 after 42…
Swiss Regulator Approves Safety Case For Restart Of Beznau-1
Source: NucNet6 Mar (NucNet): Switzerland’s Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate, ENSI, has given the go-ahead for the restart of the Beznau-1 nuclear unit after approving the safety case presented by owner Axpo following the discovery in 2015…
Exelon, PSEG To Cease Capital Projects At Salem NPP
Source: NewsThe Public Services Enterprise Group and Exelon, owners of the Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey, filed notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday that gives notice to the state that capital…