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Georgia Power Enters into New Agreements with Toshiba and Westinghouse for Vogtle Nuclear Expansion
Source: News–Press Release– Georgia Power LogoGeorgia Power, the largest electric subsidiary of Southern Company, has entered into a new agreement with Toshiba, the parent company of Vogtle contractor Westinghouse. The agreement, approved by the U.S. Department…
Sweco Awarded Clink Plant Engineering Contract
Source: NewsEngineering giant Sweco – formerly Swedish Consultants – announced that it had been granted a $23 million contract by the country's nuclear waste management company SKB (Svensk Karnbranslehantering AB) for engineering and safety analysis reports…
Preliminary Report Clears Flamanville 3 On Steel Concerns
Source: NewsThe French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) in a preliminary report, says that construction will be allowed to continue at the Flamanville Unit 3 construction project despite anomalies of high carbon concentrations found in steel used…
Radiation Exposure In Japan Threatens Five Workers
Source: NewsThe Japan Atomic Energy Agency said that five workers at a research facility in east Japan had been exposed to high levels of radioactivity after a storage bag they were handling burst open.
Texas Takes DOE To Court Over Yucca Mountain Limbo
Source: NewsTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a motion with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to have the court force the federal government to re-channel its funds and activities towards a spent nuclear…
Japan's Fifth Re-Activated Reactor — Takahama 3 — Is Restarted
Source: NewsThe Kansai Electric Power Company reactivated its No. 3 reactor at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Japan Tuesday, initiating control rod removal at 2:00 P.M. local time, media reports indicate. The No. 3 Unit…
NRC license to be sought for GEH PRISM Advanced Reactor
Source: Neutron BytesFour U.S. nuclear energy firms have teamed to develop the basis for seeking an NRC design certification under 10CFR50 for the GE-Hitachi (GEH) PRISM advanced nuclear reactor. (PDF slide deck) Team members plan to seek…
Westinghouse News Includes 48-Hour Extension In Georgia
Source: NewsGeorgia Power and Westinghouse Electric have agreed to a 48-hour extension of the interim construction agreement that was due to end June 3, the companies announced.
Nuclear Technology Innovation Panel Lights Up NEI Conference
Source: Neutron BytesAdvanced Reactor Pioneers at NEA Sound Bright Notes Holtec’s Singh: Future of industry depends on “relentless innovation” TerraPower: China and Russia are not standing still and neither should we (NEI) A measure of the momentum…
India Inks Twin Reactor Deal with Rosatom for Kudankulam
Source: Neutron BytesUnits 5 & 6 will be built as part of the same power station as the first four Units 1 & 2 are commissioned and generating electricity. Ground has been broken and first concrete will…
Trump Announces Pull-Out From Paris Accord
Source: NewsIgnoring the advice of government officials, corporate leaders and family members, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that the United States would pull out of the 2015 Paris Agreement that sought to impose limits on…
Canadian Nuclear Lab Issues Teaser On SMR Development
Source: NewsThe door is open for a national discussion on small modular reactor (SMR) technology in Canada, as the Canadian National Laboratories (CNL) on Friday announced the kick off of a “Request for Expressions of Interest…
OPPD Re-Assures Ratepayers On Fort Calhoun Decommissioning Costs
Source: NewsOmaha Public Power District Representatives assured the public in an open meeting Wednesday that its current funding strategy for decommissioning the shuttered Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant would cover the costs.
Korean-Fabricated Fuel Assemblies Reach Barakah
Source: NewsThe Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) has announced the safe arrival of the first Korean-fabricated fuel assemblies that will be used in the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant's No. 1 and 2 reactors once approval for…
OPG Affirms First Choice For Deep Geologic Repository
Source: NewsOntario Power Generation's latest report on the controversial Deep Geologic Repository for radioactive waste close to Lake Huron affirms the company's position that the a waste storage site close to the nation's largest nuclear power…
Nuclear Power Key For Developing Countries, Says IAEA DIrector
Source: NewsThe head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano opened the agency's annual conference in Vienna Tuesday, stating that nuclear power was needed to help developing countries that required a stable energy source for…
Westinghouse Notes Consortium Approval For VVER-440 Fuel
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company said Tuesday that, together with its eight European consortium partners, it had reached a milestone with the approval of the conceptual design for fuel for the VVER-440 assemblies, which is an enhanced…
Three Mile Island To Close In 2019 — 15 Years Early
Source: NewsExelon Corporation said Tuesday that it would close down the famous Three Miles Island Generating Station in Pennsylvania in September 2019, barring an unexpected policy shift that would turn the current energy market economics around…
NEI’s Korsnick Rolls Out a New Nuclear Advocacy Effort
Source: Neutron BytesCEO Maria Korsnick calls for recognition of nuclear as strategic national imperative. To succeed she will need to do more than just turn up the gain on NEI’s public relations output. NEI CEO Maria Korsnick…
New Horizon Moves Wylfa Newydd Design Forward
Source: NewsHorizon Nuclear Power has moved the Wylfa Newydd project design forward with a consolidated facility concept that eliminates the need for some buildings, including some of the off-site structures, and combines operations for radioactive waste…