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Department of Energy Awards $8 Million To Westinghouse For Nuclear Research
Source: NewsThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Westinghouse Electric Company and its research partners to receive $8 million in awards over the next three years to fund a series of nuclear power research projects.…
BWXT Canada To Furnish Steam Generators For Bruce Power With $130M Deal
Source: NewsBWX Technologies Inc. said Tuesday that its subsidiary BWXT Canada Ltd., in Cambridge, Ontario, had been awarded a steam generator design, manufacture and delivery contract valued at approximately $130 million Canadian ($100 million U.S.) from…
AZZ Inc. Awarded Gas Insulated Line Contract For Sanmen NPP Phase 2
Source: NewsAZZ Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas, said it had been awarded a contract from Sanmen Nuclear Power Company (SNPC) of China to provide two circuits of 550kV 3, 150 Amp Gas Insulated Line (GIL) for…
New York Commission Proposes Nuclear Power Subsidy
Source: NewsNew York's Public Services Commission over the weekend proposed a subsidy for upstate nuclear power plants that would start at about $482 million per year and rise over a 12-year period until it reached $805…
NuScale Teams With Sheffield Forgemasters For SMR Development
Source: NewsU.S.- based small reactor developer NuScale, majority owned by Fluor Engineering, said Friday that it would work with British industrial Sheffield Forgemasters International Limited (SFIL) to create a demonstration reactor vessel head by the end…
Nuclear News Roundup for July 11, 2016
Source: Neutron BytesFluor Idaho Begins Operations at DOE’s Idaho Site Operational responsibilities for environmental management work at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho Operations Office were transitioned to Fluor Idaho, LLC ON June 1, marking the start…
Transatomic Releases Details of New Reactor Design
Source: Neutron BytesThe firm defies conventional wisdom about keeping early stage technical details a secret by posting a white paper about its progress along with the endorsements of its venture capital backers. Advanced reactor developer Transatomic Power…
Transatomic Power Releases White Paper On Liquid-Fuel Efficiency
Source: NewsNuclear reactor design and development company Transatomic Power Corporation said this week it had taken an unprecedented step by releasing a technical white paper that provides and in-depth look at the science underlying the its…
Recent Estimates Set Hinkley Point C Lifetime Cost At £37bn, Government Report Says
Source: NucNet8 Jul (NucNet): The total budgeted lifetime cost for the planned Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in southern England is estimated at close to £37bn (€43bn, $48bn), according to an assessment of major projects…
Horizon Nuclear Signs Project Co-operations Deal With Japanese Firms
Source: NewsHorizon Nuclear Power said Thursday it had sighed a deal with The Japan Atomic Power Company and Hitachi calling for co-operation on the proposed Wylfa Newydd Power Station in North Wales.
German Repository Site Procedure Could Start Next Year, But Operation Could Be Next Century, Says Report
Source: NucNet7 Jul (Nucnet): The procedure for choosing a deep geologic repository site in Germany could start as soon as 2017, but the facility itself might not be operational until the next century, a commission of…
Watts Bar Unit 2 Reaches 42 Percent Of Full Power
Source: NewsWatts Bar Unit 2, the country's newest nuclear reactor, which reached first criticality on May 23, reached 42 percent of full power on Thursday, the highest level to date, as testing continues on power generation…
AREVA Completes Sale Of Canberra To Mirion Technologies
Source: NewsNuclear power giant AREVA, as part of their restructuring strategy, announced over the holiday weekend that it had completed the sale of its instrumentation and measurement specialist company Canberra to Mirion Technologies, a global provider…
Pacific Ocean Radiation Rapidly Returning To Normal After Fukushima, Says Report
Topics: Safety & EnvironmentSource: NucNet4 Jul (NucNet): Radiation levels across the Pacific Ocean are rapidly returning to normal five years after the Fukushima-Daiichi accident in Japan led to extensive releases of radioactive gases, volatiles, and liquids, particularly to the…
What about nuclear energy in UK after Brexit?
Source: Neutron BytesThere are a lot of opinions about the impacts on energy policy and investments in the UK following the non-binding vote to leave the European Union. The UK Parliament has to take the formal action…
British Unions Call For Prompt Green Light On Hinkley Point
Source: NewsFour powerful labor unions in Britain are calling the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant construction project the first major “litmus test” for the country in the wake of its landmark vote last week for…
Entergy Announces Nuclear Fleet Leadership Changes
Source: NewsEntergy Chief Nuclear Officer Chris Bakken has announced that Larry Coyle, Indian Point Energy Center site vice president, has been named chief operating officer to work alongside chief operations officers Donna Jacobs and John Ventosa.…
Georgia Power Places CA05 Module For Vogtle Unit 4
Source: NewsGeorgia Power said Tuesday that the latest construction milestone at the Vogtle Unit 3 and 4 site near Waynesboro, Ga., had been reached with the placement of the 90-ton CA05 building module for Unit 4.
Susquehanna Unit 1 Back Online
Source: NewsUnit 1 at the Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant seven miles north of Berwick, Pa., is back on line after a 21-day outage prompted by discovery of a water leak inside the reactors containment structure, Talen…
Entergy Contains Small Lubricant Leak At FitzPatrick NPP
Source: NewsEntergy said Monday that workers at the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant near Scriba, N.Y., had identified the source of a lubricant leak that had contaminated the power plant's discharge canal on Sunday, causing…