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CNNC Installs Third Fuqing Unit 5 Steam Generator
Source: NewsWithin two months, crews at the Fuquing nuclear power plant in the Fujian province of China have installed all three of Unit 5's steam generators, the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said on Monday.
Russia Institution Approves Plans For Akademik Lomonosov Floating Nuclear Station
Source: NucNet10 Jan (NucNet): The independent Russian technical institution Glavgosexpertiza has approved aspects of the planned floating nuclear power station to be deployed at Pevek, an Arctic port town in Russia’s far north-eastern region of Chukotka.…
NRC Approves NuScale's Fundamental SMR Safety Feature
Source: NewsThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has concluded that application of NuScale Power’s safety design approach related to its small modular reactor (SMR) eliminates the need for class 1E power, which is the regulatory standard…
CNNC, New AREVA Affirm Commitment To Project
Source: NewsNew AREVA and its Chinese partner China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said Tuesday they had signed an accord for the Chinese commercial used fuel treatment and recycling plant project that reaffirms their commitment to complete…
EDF Completes Cold Functional Testing At Flamanville-3 EPR
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet9 Jan (NucNet): France’s nuclear operator EDF has completed the cold functional test phase for the Flamanville-3 EPR under construction in northern France, the state-controlled company said in a statement on January 2018. …
Bad Timing And Snow Hits Nuclear Support Bill In N.J.
Source: NewsIn fighting in the New Jersey capital and bad timing, given the turnover in the governor's mansion in the state, could derail and effort to provide Public Service Electric and Gas with $320 million per…
Finland’s Loviisa Had Record Production Year In 2017
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NucNet5 Jan (NucNet): Fortum’s two-unit Loviisa nuclear power station had a record production year in 2017, generating 8.16 TWh (net) of power, which is more than 10% of Finland’s total electricity production. …
Brookfield Private Equity Group To Buy Westinghouse For $4.6 Billion
Topics: Industry & BusinessSource: NucNet5 Jan (NucNet): Westinghouse Electric Company, the US nuclear engineering group that went into chapter 11 bankruptcy last year, has been sold by its owner Toshiba to Brookfield Business Partners, the private equity group, for…
EDF Energy Says It Can Cut Sizewell C Costs By £5 Billion
Source: NucNet4 Jan (NucNet): EDF Energy has said it could deliver two new EPR units planned for Sizewell C in England for around £5bn (€5.6bn, $6.7bn) less than Hinkley Point C by “copying and pasting” to…
Canadian Board Trims OPG Budget Request
Source: NewsOntario Power Generation (OPG) must cut $500 million from its $16.8 billion budget request for nuclear operations submitted to the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) in May 2016, the utility regulator said Friday. The agency took…
SCANA Corp. Accepts Tentative $14.6B Purchase Offer
Source: NewsA tentative purchase offer from Dominion Energy of $14.6 billion has been accepted for SCANA Corp., media reports indicated Wednesday.
UK Low-Carbon, Including Nuclear, Outstrips Fossil Fuels For First Time
Source: NucNet3 Jan (NucNet): Low-carbon technologies including nuclear generated more than half of the UK’s electricity in 2017, outstripping the combined power from coal and gas for the first time, analysis shows. …
IAEA: Gains Among Concerns In 2017
Source: NewsThe year 2017 continued the 60-year anniversary celebrations at the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, which remains dedicated to its mission of providing global nuclear safeguards and development in the face of the threat of…
Latest Taishan Delay Could Lead To More Cost Overruns, Says Moody’s
Source: NucNet2 Jan (NucNet): The latest commissioning delay at CGN Power’s Taishan nuclear station in southern China – the third in two years – will lead to a deferral of around $770m (€638m) in annual revenues…
Teodor Chirica Announced As New President of Foratom
Topics: Industry & BusinessSource: NucNet2 Jan (NucNet): Teodor Chirica has been appointed president of Brussels-based nuclear industry group Foratom for two years from 1 January 2018, Foratom said in a statement today. …
SCE&G Takes Formal Step To Withdraw From Project
Source: NewsSCANA Corp. said Thursday that its subsidiary South Carolina Electric & Gas Company, had taken the formal step of withdrawing from the V.C. Summer nuclear plant expansion project — comprising of Units 2 and 3…
Japan’s Regulator Says Kashiwazaki Kariwa-6 And -7 meet new Safety Standards
Source: NucNet29 Dec (NucNet): Units 6 and 7 of the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, meet new regulatory standards imposed after the March 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said.…
Deadly Arsenic Binds With Uranium With Far-Reaching Benefits
Source: NewsUsing powerful synchrotron X-ray imaging, scientists at the University of Sheffield in Britain announced recently that they had discovered uranium at the country's only uranium ore production facility binds with the toxic chemical arsenic to…
EDF In Expected Deal Buys 75.5% Of New NP
Source: NewsIn a long-expected deal, French utility, operator of all of the country's nuclear power plants, signed an agreement on Friday to purchase 75.5 percent of New NP from Areva SA.
Cleanup Begins at Evacuated Futaba, Close To Meltdowns
Source: NewsCleanup has begun in a “special reconstruction zone” of the town of Futaba in the evacuation zone close to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station, which suffered a triple-meltdown following an earthquake-triggered tsunami event in…