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NuScale Submits SMR Design Certification Package to NRC
Source: Neutron BytesIt will take the regulatory agency more than three years to evaluate the 12,000 pages of information submitted in electronic form by the company on 12/31/16. Financial support for design and licensing costs was provided,…
Hinkley Point C Construction Contracts Awarded
Source: NewsBouygues Construction announced this week that a subsidiary, Bouygues Travaux Publics, a consortium with the British construction firm Laing O'Rourke, had signed contracts with French utility EDF for the construction of the Hinkley Point C…
NRC Accepts Application For Clinch River Site Permit
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week that it had accepted for review the Early Site Permit application for the Clinch River site near Oak Ridge, Tenn., which is earmarked as the site for two…
NRC Notes No Creusot Forge Safety Concerns
Source: NewsThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said that components in U.S. nuclear plants made at the Creusot Forge in France that were implicated by an ongoing controversy over high-carbon concentrations and paper work irregularities had…
NuScale Hand Delivers 12,000-Page SMR Application To NRC
Source: NewsNext generation nuclear power plant developer NuScale has requested a regulatory review of its small modular reactor (SMR) design for commercial application, submitting its nearly 12,000-pages of SMR plans to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission…
EU Commission Approves Capital Support For AREVA
Source: NewsEuropean Commission anti-trust regulators ruled Tuesday that the French government's rescue plans for troubled nuclear engineering firm AREVA were in line with state aid rules.
British Government Puts HPR1000 On Assessment Track
Source: NewsFrench and Chinese companies EDF Energy and China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) said Tuesday that the British government had requested nuclear power regulators – namely the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and the Environment…
CGN Connects Yangjiang Unit 4 To Grid
Source: NewsChina General Nuclear Power Corp. said it connected the fourth unit of the Yangjiang nuclear power plant to the grid on Sunday, allowing the company to initiate the final round of testing before the reactor…
PBS TV Show – The Nuclear Option How will we power the planet without wrecking the climate?
Source: Neutron BytesAiring January 11, 2017 at 9 pm on PBS Five years after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the unprecedented trio of meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, scientists and engineers are struggling…
Indian Point Reactors to Close by 2021
Source: Neutron BytesNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo wins a long standing campaign on behalf of natural gas firms and green groups. The climate change battle loses ground. Two aides to NY Governor Cuomo are charged in a…
NRC Plans Release Of Le Creusot Affected U.S. Plants
Source: NewsThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said it plans to release names of U. S. nuclear reactors that have installed components produced by the Le Creusot forge in France, a source of components that has…
L3 MAPPS to Work With INEEL to Modernize the Laguna Verde Simulator
Source: News—Press Release— L3 MAPPS announced today that it has received an order from Instituto Nacional de Electricidad y Energías Limpias (INEEL) to support the modernization of the Laguna Verde full scope simulator for Comisión Federal…
Studies Done For OPG's Underground Repository
Source: NewsCanadian nuclear power operator Ontario Power Generation (OPG) said Wednesday it had submitted information to the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change concerning a proposal for a Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) in Kincardine, Ontario,…
Thomas Thor Associates, B.V. and KeySource HCI, LLC Announce Merger
Source: News–Press Release– KeySource Thomas Thor, LLCThomas Thor Associates, B.V. and KeySource HCI, LLC announce that as of January 1, 2017 they are merging their nuclear industry business interests in the Americas and forming a new…
PG&E Considers Appeal Of NRC White-Status Designation
Source: NewsPacific Gas & Electric is considering an appeal of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's white safety status designation issued last week that cited the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant for failing to adequately maintain an emergency…
Regulator OKs Dry Storage At Sizewell B
Source: NewsThe Office of Nuclear Regulation in Britain has granted approval for EDF Energy to begin using a $250 million dry storage facility for spent fuel at the Sizewell B nuclear power station on the Suffolk…
NRC Issues ‘White Finding’ To Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant
Source: NucNet30 Dec (NucNet): The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a white finding of low to moderate safety significance to the two-unit Diablo Canyon nuclear power station in California for failing to adequately maintain the…
Rosatom Subsidiary Opens "Near Surface" Nuclear Waste Repository
Source: NewsRussia has put into operation its first near-surface final nuclear waste repository for solid low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste, National Operator for Radioactive Waste Management (NO RAO) has announced.
Rosatom Open To AREVA Investment Says VP
Source: NewsRussian nuclear power conglomerate Rosatom is open to the idea of discussing the purchase of a stake in state-run French company AREAVA, but there is little interest from France in making a deal, said a…
Bob Hawke, Former PM, Touts Nuclear Waste Option For Australia
Source: NewsFormer Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, 87, called on his country to embrace the business of nuclear waste storage as a means of helping the country's economy and fighting global warming.