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Pakistan To Hold Inaugural Event For Chashma C-3
Source: NewsPakistan's Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will officially launch the country's fourth nuclear reactor, Chashma C-3, with an inauguration ceremony on Wednesday with a ceremony at the plant in the Punjab province.
Toshiba Says It Will Book Huge Losses On Cost Overruns
Source: NewsJapanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp, which purchased nuclear power plant builder CB&I Stone & Webster in December 2015, said this week that it would likely book a loss of several billion dollars this fiscal year due…
DOE Narrows Selection Of Borehole Test Participants To Four Companies
Source: NewsThe Department of Energy said this week that it had selected four companies – AECOM, ENERCON, TerranearPMC and RE/SPEC to begin working on the possibility of conducting a deep borehole field test that would explore…
Letter To President Elect Urges Support For Nuclear Power
Source: NewsMore than 40 academics, business leaders and prominent citizens have penned an open letter to president-elect Donald Trump and former Texas governor Rick Perry, Trump's pick for U.S. Secretary of Energy – urging the upcoming…
Illinois Law Translates To 400 Jobs, Says Exelon
Source: NewsExelon Corporation, owners and operators of 23 nuclear reactors, including the Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants in Illinois, said the Future Energy Jobs Bill signed into law by Gov. Bruce Rauner in early…
Investors Line Up for UK’s Next Big Nuclear Reactor Projects
Source: Neutron BytesWith Hinkley Point underway the UK government is lining up investors for the next massive project which is to build twin 1380 MW Hitachi-GE ABWRs at Wylfa Newydd on the Welsh Coast. The Japanese government,…
NRC Proposes $14,000 Fine For Virginia Firm
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington said it had proposed a fine of $14,000 as a civil penalty to impose on a Virginia firm for performing work in the District of Columbia without first obtaining…
Japan Talks With Britain About Nuclear Plant Financing
Source: NewsWhile the Japanese nuclear power industry struggles to remain profitable through an extended post-Fukushima Daiichi industry slowdown and the subsequent safety mandates, the government is now considering financial assistance for companies that pursue nuclear construction…
Vattenfall Secures Long-Term Nuclear Fuel Contracts
Source: NewsInternational power company Vattenfall, owned by the Swedish government and with a substantial presence across Europe, said it had secured long term nuclear fuel supplies by signing contracts with French nuclear giant AREVA, Russia's TVEL…
Second Containment Ring In Place For Vogtle Unit 3
Source: NewsA second containment vessel ring has been set in place for Unit 3 at the Plant Vogtle expansion project near Waynesboro, Ga., Georgia Power announced on Tuesday.
NRC Investigates Risky Shipping Incident At Columbia NPP
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said Monday that it had initiated a special inspection of the Columbia Generating Station near Richland, Washington, to investigate why a package sent to a U.S. Ecology disposal station 10…
Japan’s Nuclear Restart Could See 26 Reactors Back Online By March 2018
Source: NucNet12 Dec (NucNet): Seven nuclear power reactors in Japan will be restarted in the current fiscal year, by the end of 31 March 2017, with another 19 in the following fiscal year to the end…
Japan Puts Fukushima Daiichi Cleanup At $188 Billion
Source: NewsA government panel in Japan late last week said that the cleanup costs at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that experienced a triple-unit meltdown in March 2011 had escalated to an estimated 22 million…
Entergy Continues Closing Its Cash Cows
Source: Neutron BytesThe Louisiana based nuclear power firm announced this week it is closing its Palisades, Michigan, plant, which is the third in a series due to competition from natural gas. The hit list which started with…
Trump Advisers Reviewing Nuclear Power Options
Source: NewsA document reviewed by business news agency Bloomberg reportedly includes several key questions concerning nuclear power asked by President-elect Donald Trump advisers of the U.S. Energy Department.
Entergy To Shutter Palisades NPP In 2018
Source: NewsNaming a potential for consumer savings and the avoidance of business risks, Entergy announced Thursday that it would shutter the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert, Michigan on October 1, 2018, thirteen years before its operating…
Jordan Announces Completion Of Research Reactor
Source: NewsConstruction has been completed for a 5 MW research reactor in Jordan, the government said Wednesday. It is the first reactor in the country that also has ambitions to build a commercial power reactor for…
Fuel Assembly Plant Underway In Kazakhstan
Source: NewsA three-nation enterprise involving investment from Kazakhstan, France and China is underway, as AREVA of France announced the construction start of a uranium processing plant in Kazakhstan that is scheduled to begin production in 2020.
France’s Regulator Approves Restart Of 10 Reactors Following Safety Checks
Source: NucNet6 Dec (NucNet): France’s nuclear regulator, Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN), has approved the conditional restart of 10 nuclear reactors in France that have been offline while the safety case for the units has been…
IAEA Team Assesses Italy's Regulatory Framework
Source: NewsAn international team of regulation and safety experts praised Italy's commitment to nuclear regulatory oversight, but urged the country to develop policies related to safety, decommissioning and radioactive waste management.