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The Play For Areva: Engie Head Not Considering Purchase
Source: NewsThe future of struggling French nuclear build specialist Areva is still up in the air, but some of the players are jockeying for position, at least in the eyes of the media. Jean-Bernard Levy, the…
NRC Turns Down Request To Shut Down Diablo Canyon
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday denied a request from an environmental group to shut down the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near San Luis Obispo, California, due to earthquake risks. Both plant operator Pacific…
Nuclear Decommissioning Company Magnox To Lay Off 1,600 In Britain
Source: NewsBritish nuclear plant decommissioning company Magnox said Thursday that it would cut 1,600 jobs at 12 different nuclear power stations, none of which, with the exception of Wylfa on Anglesey in North Wales, is still…
S. African Energy Minister Says Nuclear Power Partner Will Be Chosen Soon
Source: NewsSouth Africa’s Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said this week that the country would chose a strategic partner or partners by the end of the year who would help build a fleet of nuclear power plants.…
Japan's Nuclear Restarts: One More Reactor Approved, One Injunction Upheld
Source: NewsEfforts to restart Japan’s nuclear power plants suffered a setback and a victory this week, as a district court upheld an injunction preventing one restart and the Nuclear Regulatory Agency approved the restart of another…
SCE&G Fine Tunes VC Summer Completion Dates, As Ratings Drop
Source: NewsSouth Carolina Electric & Gas said in a regulatory filing that Unit 2 at the VC Summer nuclear plant construction site would not be completed until 10 August 2019, pushing the completion date back from…
South Africa Ready To Begin Procurement For Six New Reactors, Says Minister
Source: NucNet19 May (NucNet): South Africa will start the process to procure a nuclear fleet of six new nuclear reactors this year, with the first likely to begin commercial operation in 2023, energy minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson…
Four Utilities Request NRC Review Of Lightbridge Metallic Fuel Design
Source: NewsU.S. regulators said Monday that four U.S. electric utility companies, representing close to 50 percent of the country’s nuclear generation, have formally requested a review, by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, of Lightbridge Corporation metallic fuel…
Kurion Awarded Cimarron Cleanup Contract
Source: NewsCalifornia-based waste water management firm Kurion Inc. said Monday that it had been awarded a contract to treat radioactive water at the Cimarron fuel fabrication facility in Guthrie, Oklahoma, which could open a door for…
NEI Honors Innovations That Save Nuclear Facilities Millions
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Energy Institute on Thursday announced its 2015 best industry practice awards, naming a team of Exelon employees as winners of the B. Ralph Sylvia Best of the Best Award for an innovative management…
NRC Directs Columbia Generating Station And Diablo Canyon NPP To Assess Seismic Risks
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday directed Energy Northwest and Pacific Gas and Electric Company, operators of the Columbia Generating Station in Washington state and the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California, to take…
Challenging Issues Remain At ‘Very Complex’ Fukushima Site, Says IAEA Report
Source: NucNet14 May (NucNet): Japan has made good progress in improving its decommissioning strategy at Fukushima-Daiichi, but a range of challenging issues remain and the situation onsite remains “very complex”, a report published today by the…
L-3 MAPPS to Implement GE’s Main Generator Excitation System on the Cernavodă Simulator
Source: News-Press Release- L-3 MAPPS announced today that it has received an order from GE Energy Control Solutions (GE) to implement the new GE EX2100e main generator excitation control system on the Cernavodă full scope simulator…
Westinghouse Awarded Contract For Leibstadt NPP Inspections
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company and its subsidiary WesDyne International said Wednesday that it had been awarded a long-term contract for nuclear reactor pressure vessel nozzle inspection at Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant (KKL) in Switzerland – a…
In The National Election Campaign, Think Nuclear Power Jobs, Says Editorial
Source: News[UPDATED] Saving the U.S. nuclear power industry is the equivalent of saving hundreds of thousands of “solid, middle-class jobs,” an editorial written by the president of North America's Building Trades Unions Sean McGarvey declared on…
Belgium Parliament Committee Approves Doel-1 And -2 Lifetime Extension
Source: NucNet13 May (NucNet): The economic committee of the Belgian parliament last night approved the government’s plan for a 10-year lifetime extension of Electrabel’s Doel-1 and -2 nuclear units, the parliament said. …
Jacobs Engineering Signs Management Deal For EDF Energy In Britain
Source: NewsPasadena-based Jabobs Engineering Group Inc. said Tuesday it had been awarded an EDF Energy contract to provide project management resources for the company’s entire British nuclear plant fleet, which includes eight nuclear power stations and…
Small Firm Wins Big Sellafield Container Contract
Source: NewsA struggling engineering firm from Britain, Avingtrans, has been awarded a $73 million contract to build nuclear waste storage containers at Sellafield, site of one of the world’s oldest nuclear power plants, which went on…
Will Areva survive a cascade of crises?
Source: Neutron BytesPhillippe Knoche, Areva’s CEO, at this point in his brief history at the head of the firm, could probably be forgiven for thinking that without too much trouble he could throw a rock in just…
Diakont Begins Supply of D40 Console, a Turnkey Solution for Visual Inspections
Source: News-Prees Release- San Diego, California – Diakont, a leading provider of high-tech solutions for the nuclear industry, has begun supply of new D40 console systems which furnish all of the components required to complete visual…