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Setting For Chinese-British Deal Takes Cloak And Dagger Turn
Source: NewsThe expected deal between China and Britain that could pave the way for construction of three nuclear power plants has taken a decidedly cloak and dagger turn. The Times of London reported that the British…
Climate Change and Nonproliferation Topics Lead Nuclear Energy Meeting
Source: News–Press Release– ANS Members from Around the World to Gather in D.C. for Winter Meeting LaGrange Park, IL, – Nuclear professionals from the U.S. and around the world will meet to discuss climate change, nuclear…
Sweden’s Vattenfall Confirms Plans To Close Ringhals-1 And -2
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NucNet16 Oct (NucNet): Sweden’s Ringhals-2 will permanently shut down in 2019, with Ringhals-1 to follow in 2020, majority owner Vattenfall said after an extraordinary general meeting of Ringhals’s board yesterday. …
Kyushu Electric Power Restarts Sendai Unit 2 In Break Even Week
Source: NewsThree steps backward, three steps forward. That is, essentially, the score for the nuclear power industry on a global scale this week as two companies, Entergy in the United States and OKG in Europe, announced…
Kyushu Electric Announces Restart Of Sendai-2 Reactor
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NucNet15 Oct (NucNet): Kyushu Electric Power Company today restarted its Sendai-2 nuclear power reactor in Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, the second reactor to restart in the country since the introduction of new post-Fukushima regulatory standards.…
OKG Announces Closure Of Oskarshamn Units 1 And 2
Source: NewsOwners of the three-unit Oskarshamn nuclear power plant on the east coast of Sweden said Wednesday that it would permanently shutter the oldest two units at the plant due to economic factors that put profits…
Survey Parses Sentiment On Nuclear Power In UK
Source: NewsA survey released Wednesday by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers said that a majority in the United Kingdom supported nuclear power, although close to half of the country was strongly opposed to a nuclear waste…
Amec Foster Wheeler To Study Waste Management Options At Fukushima Daiichi NPP
Source: NewsBritish engineering, consultancy and construction giant Amec Foster Wheeler said that it had been appointed by Japan's decommissioning organization to conduct a study of radioactive waste management options at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power station.…
Entergy To Shut Down Pilgrim NPP In Massachusetts
Source: NewsEntergy Corporation, one of the largest energy companies in the United States, said Tuesday it would close down the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Mass., by June 1, 2019, citing economic factors. The decision…
Entergy Confirms Plans To Shut Down Pilgrim-1 In 2019
Source: NucNet13 Oct (NucNet): Entergy Corporation will close its single-unit Pilgrim nuclear power station in Massachusetts no later than 1 June 2019 because of poor market conditions, reduced revenues and increased operational costs, the company said…
Audit Says German Utilities Can Afford Decommissioning
Source: NewsGerman utility companies can afford the cost of decommissioning their nuclear power plants, the Ministry of the Economy said on Saturday The ministry is backing legislation, which has not yet been approved, that seeks to…
Problems Of Soviet Nuclear Legacy Are Being Resolved, Says Rosatom Director
Source: NucNet12 Oct (NucNet): Problems related to the Soviet-era nuclear legacy in Russia are being resolved under a federal programme that has already seen more than 28,000 used fuel assemblies placed in long-term storage or reprocessed,…
Sen. Inhofe Clashes With NRC Commissioners On Scale-Back
Source: NewsAt least one key U.S. senator says he is not satisfied with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's streamlining efforts. The NRC announced recently that it was re-shuffling some top management positions to reflect the post Fukushima…
Westinghouse Proposes Working With DOE On Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company on Thursday announced that it is seeking to collaborate with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on the a lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) that the company says will be designed to achieve…
AZZ Inc. Announces Service Contract Awarded By Mexico's CFE
Source: NewsAZZ Inc., a global provider of galvanizing services, welding solutions, specialty electrical equipment and highly engineered services to the power generation industry, said it had been awarded a $15 million contract to refurbish main steam…
Prospects For Nuclear In Southeast Asia Have Diminished Since Fukushima, Says IEA
Source: NucNet8 Oct (NucNet): Rising electricity demand, growing dependence on imported fossil fuels and environmental concerns have prompted several Southeast Asian countries to consider the role that nuclear power could play in their energy mix, but…
NuScale Sets Its Sights On U.K. For SMR Technology — Seeks Partner
Source: NewsU.S.-based NuScale Power, majority owned by Fluor Corporation, said that it had set it sights on the British energy market for its Small Modular Reactor (SMR) and that it was seeking a partner to help…
Ikata Assembly Approves Reactor Restart For Ikata NPP
Source: NewsAssembly members of a small town 466 miles southwest of Tokyo have unanimously agreed to allow the restart of a nuclear power reactor operated by Shikoku Electric Power Company. In the post-Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant…
AREVA Lands Xcel Service Contract for Two Plants Along The Mississippi
Source: NewsAREVA TN said Monday that it had signed a contract with Xcel Energy to provide wide-ranging dry fuel storage management services for Xcel's Prairie Island and Monticello nuclear generating plants. Both plants are in Minnesota.…
GE Hitachi And DTE Energy To Work On Advancing ESBWR Design
Source: NewsGE Hitachi and DTE Energy on Monday said they would explore advancing the detailed design of the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor, known as the ESBWR. DTE has not made a commitment to build a…