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Georgia Public Service Commission Approves New Vogtle Construction Costs
Source: NewsThe Georgia Public Service Commission had verified and approved of $169 million in capital and construction costs that were submitted for review as part of the 12 th Vogtle Construction Monitoring Report that covered the…
Tepco Holding Company To Take Charge Of Fukushima Decommissioning
Source: NucNet19 Aug (NucNet): The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) will spin off its non-nuclear businesses into three subsidiary companies as of 1 April 2016, keeping its nuclear business and the decommissioning related to the March…
Capacity Factor At Six-Year High In June
Source: NewsThe U.S. nuclear power industry's 99 operating power generation facilities operated with a capacity factor of 96.4 percent in June, according to a Nuclear Energy Institute report. The capacity factor was one percentage point higher…
BWXT Canada Awarded Steam Generator Design Contract
Source: NewsBWX Technologies, Inc. said Monday that its subsidiary BWXT Canada Ltd. has been awarded major contracts for steam generator design and component manufacturing for the HPR1000 nuclear plant in Guangxi, China. The steam generator design…
TVA Sends Request For Watts Bar 2 Operating License
Source: News[UPDATED]The Tennessee Valley Authority has declared the new Watts Bar Unit 2 reactor to be “substantially complete” and sent a request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for an operating license for the unit that would…
Industrial Groups Welcome Japan Reactor Restart
Source: NucNet17 Aug (NucNet): The chairmen of three industrial groups in Japan have welcomed the restart of the Sendai-1 nuclear reactor unit, saying it will help the country’s economy, the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (Jaif) said.…
GAO Report details challenges ahead for advanced nuclear reactors
Source: Neutron BytesThe US General Accounting Office has published a significant report, which is both informative and readable, about the prospects for advanced reactors being developed for commercial customers in the US. The outlook is not especially…
NRC & DOE announce joint workshop on advance nuclear reactor technologies
Source: Neutron BytesThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Department of Energy announce a Joint Workshop Non-Light Water Reactor Strategies. The NRC and DOE will be holding the Non-Light Water Reactor Strategies Workshop on September 1-2,…
NRC develop new emergency procedures for SMRs
Source: Neutron BytesIn response to communication from the nuclear industry, the regulatory agency’s four member commission has given the staff nine months to develop new emergency regulations for small modular reactors (SMRs). A document describing the agency’s…
TVA’s Watts Bar 2 Asks NRC for Part 50 Operating License
Source: Neutron BytesThe Tennessee Valley Authority is on track to open the nation’s first new nuclear generating plant of the 21st century. This week the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) sent documentation to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)…
Holtec International Lands Spent Fuel Dry-Storage Cask Contract In South Africa
Source: NewsSouth African utility company Eskom has signed a $15.6 million contract with U.S.-based Holtec International for the first phase of a new nuclear fuel storage program. The first step is for Holtec to supply Eskom…
TVA Completes Hot Functional Tests For Watts Bar Unit 2
Source: NewsThe Tennessee Valley Authority said this week that hot functional testing of the new Watts Bar Unit 2 nuclear reactor in Spring City, Tenn., had been completed, demonstrating the unit performed as designed. “The latest…
Australia Has ‘Great Opportunity’ To Expand Uranium Industry, Says Council
Source: NucNet13 Aug (NucNet): Australia has a great opportunity to expand uranium mining in the coming two decades, but reforms are needed to form the bedrock of industry development at both state and national level, the…
Russia And Egypt To Sign Nuclear Plant Contracts Soon
Source: NewsGovernment officials in Egypt said by the end of the month contracts would be signed with Russia's state-owned nuclear power giant Rosatom for the construction of an eight-reactor nuclear power plant in the country. The…
Tepco Calls Water Containment And Treatment At Fukushima Daiichi Much Improved
Source: NewsThe Tokyo Electric Power Company said Wednesday that it had developed water containment and treatment systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that are helping in the environmental recovery of the devastated site. “After…
NRC To Map Out Emergency Plans For Small Modular Reactors
Source: NewsThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the development of new emergency regulations for small modular reactors, which are generally defined as 300 MWe or smaller, which represents a radical departure from the 1,000 MWe…
Sendai-1 Becomes First Reactor To Restart In Japan, Operator Confirms
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NucNet11 Aug (NucNet): Kyushu Electric Power Company has restarted the Sendai-1 nuclear reactor, the first unit in Japan to resume operation since all of the country’s commercial nuclear stations were shut down for safety checks…
Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers 267
Source: Neutron BytesThis post represents the latest link in an unbroken chain of more than five years of the weekly summaries of the best of the pro-nuclear blogs. With the recent updated assessment by the IPCC of…
China Reports Rush Of Interest In Nuclear Power Project In Argentina
Source: NewsChinese media are reporting that a planned nuclear power project in Argentina his proving to be a magnet for businesses. Over 900 suppliers have registered to have a piece of the action in the Argentina,…
Areva Awarded SCE&G Contract For Integrated Head Assembly
Source: NewsFrench nuclear engineering and construction company AREVA announced Thursday they had been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract with South Carolina Electric and Gas, a subsidiary of SCANA Corporation, to fabricate and to install the integrated head…