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Europe Needs Nuclear For Climate Change And Energy Security, Says Foratom DG
Source: NucNet31 Jan (NucNet): Nuclear energy contributes to the European Union’s three key energy objectives laid out in the bloc’s energy union initiative of security of supply, competitiveness and environmental sustainability, Yves Desbazeille, director-general of industry…
Breakthrough For NRG As Petten Becomes First Facility In Europe To Stop Using HEU In Medical Isotope Production
Source: NucNet31 Jan (NucNet): NRG, the world’s largest producer of medical isotopes, said it has become the first facility in Europe to stop using high-enriched uranium (HEU) in the production process. …
Westinghouse Extends Fuel Contract With Ukraine
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company said Monday that it has signed a nuclear fuel contract extension with Ukraine’s State Enterprise National Nuclear Energy Generation Company (SE NNEGC) Energoatom. Westinghouse logo two
House Of Lords Brexit Report Calls On UK To Negotiate ‘Euratom-Specific’ Transition Period
Topics: Policy & RegulationSource: NucNet29 Jan (NucNet): A House of Lords committee has called on the UK government to report to Parliament on the possibility of a Euratom-specific transition period separate from the wider Brexit process. …
Brexit Threat To Workers Puts New Nuclear Plants In Doubt, Says Lords Report
Source: NucNet29 Jan (NucNet): The UK’s ability to build future nuclear power stations, including Hinkley Point C in Somerset, is in doubt if access to specialist EU workers is curtailed, warns a parliamentary report on Brexit…
Looming Closure of Davis-Besse, Perry Puts Focus on Advocacy for Future of Nuclear Energy in Ohio and the Nation
Source: Neutron BytesFirst Energy to declare bankruptcy and close David-Besse and Perry nuclear plants Ohio Millennials Organize Over Future of Advanced Reactors ‘Titans of Nuclear’ Podcasts Launch to Promote Nuclear Energy Message to Address Climate Change Third…
Policy Exchange In Britain Recommends SMRs
Source: NewsSmall modular nuclear reactors could be “crucial” in the Britain's pursuit of an energy strategy that will need to provide “previously unthinkable levels of new low carbon electric capacity,” said the think tank Policy Exchange…
Regulator Recommends Connecticut Support Millstone NPP
Source: NewsConnecticut's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) in a draft report has recommended the state allow the Millstone Nuclear Power Station to be declared a clean energy source that would put it in the same market…
Framatome Gets Go-Ahead To Resume Manufacture Of Forgings At Le Creusot
Source: NucNet26 Jan (NucNet): Framatome has received the green light from the French nuclear regulator ASN and state-controlled nuclear operator EDF to resume the manufacture of forgings for the French nuclear fleet at its Le Creusot…
UK To Offer £1 Million A Year To Communities In Bid To Find Repository Site
Source: NucNet25 Jan (NucNet): Communities around England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be offered £1m a year to volunteer to host a deep geologic disposal facility for thousands of years, as part of a revised government…
Russia, Argentina Sign MOU On Uranium Production
Source: NewsRussia and Argentina signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning uranium exploration and mining that the South American country said it hoped would put it on a path towards “self-sufficiency in uranium.”
£86 Million Nuclear Fusion Investment Means UK Can Take Expertise To World, Says Gov’t
Source: NucNet24 Jan (NucNet): A recent £86m (€97m, $115m) investment from the government has put the UK Atomic Energy Authority in a position to forge partnerships with domestic companies and “take their expertise to the world”,…
Areva Sets Out To Begin New Chapter With Change Of Name To Orano
Source: NucNet24 Jan (NucNet): France’s state-controlled uranium mining and nuclear fuel group New Areva has been renamed Orano, the company said. …
New Areva Takes A New Name (Orano), Logo And Headquarters
Source: NewsNew Areva – the mining and nuclear fuel company left over from Areva's restructuring process after the company was beset by losses – said Tuesday that several symbolic changes were in order, including giving itself…
Romania Needs Cernavodă-3 and -4 For Balanced Energy Mix After 2025, Says Nuclearelectrica CEO
Source: NucNet23 Jan (NucNet): Romania will not have a balanced energy mix beyond 2025 without the completion of the planned Cernavodă-3 and -4 nuclear units, Cosmin Ghita, chief executive officer of Romanian nuclear operator Nuclearelectrica, said.…
Austria Announces Plans To Sue EC Over Hungary’s Paks Expansion Project
Source: NucNet22 Jan (NucNet): Austria announced today that it plans to sue the European Commission at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg for allowing Hungary to expand its Paks nuclear power station. …
Hungary’s Nuclear Facilities Operated Safely In 2017, Says Regulator
Source: NucNet22 Jan (NucNet): Facilities supervised by the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority operated safely during 2017 with 27 security related events reported, all of which were rated as Level 0 on the International Atomic Energy Agency’s…
US Nuclear Industry Faces Watershed Year – NEI
Source: Neutron BytesNEI’s Kotek: Keeping existing reactors operating is fundamental and the nuclear industry must also demonstrate it can build new reactors Two important nuclear utilities end their NEI memberships This may be a watershed year for…
Small Reactor Testing Went Well Says Nasa
Source: NewsThe race for developing a viable small modular reactor is on, but the first community to have a small reactor installed may not be in Idaho or Canada, after all. It might actually be on…
Tepco Probe Of Unit 2 Finds Fuel Deposit
Source: NewsThe Tokyo Electric Power Company said Friday that a prove outfitted with a camera, a lamp, heat sensors and a dosimeter has returned images of fuel deposits at the bottom of Unit 2 at the…