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No Evidence Against Safety Of Inland Nuclear Plants, Says China Industry Group
Source: NucNet28 Apr (NucNet): China will use “very stringent selection criteria” when choosing sites for the construction of its first inland nuclear power stations and there is no evidence to suggest inland stations will be any…
Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Essential For Long-Term Plans, Says JNFL
Source: NucNet27 Apr (NucNet): Japan has identified the reprocessing of nuclear fuel as the “essential factor” for the long-term use of nuclear energy, Harukuni Tanaka, senior managing executive officer of Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (JNFL), said…
GE Hitachi Delivers 500th Ultra Control Rod Blade
Source: NewsGE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) said this week it had delivered its 500th Ultra Control Rod Blade, which was sent to the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, MA as part of a multi-blade shipment.…
Japan's Cabinet Considers Target Of 20-22 Percent Nuclear For Electricity Generation
Topics: Policy & RegulationSource: NewsThe Economy, Trade and Industry ministry in Japan is setting a target of 20 percent to 22 percent of the country's electricity generation to come from nuclear power plants by 2030, a draft of the…
Japan’s Sendai-1 Scheduled For July 2015 Restart
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NucNet24 Apr (NucNet): Kyushu Electric Power Company, operator of the two-unit Sendai nuclear station in Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan, plans to load fuel assemblies into Sendai-1 in June and restart the reactor in July, with…
Diakont and Structural Integrity Associates, Inc. are Awarded the 2015 MP Corrosion Innovation Award for Robotic in line Inspection Solution for Piping with Internal Liners or Heavy Corrosion
Source: News-Press Release- San Diego, California – Diakont, along with strategic partner Structural Integrity Associates, Inc., was presented the 2015 MP Corrosion Innovation of the Year Award for RODIS Robotic ILI with SIPECTM dynamic pulsed eddy…
Local Court Rejects Injunction For Sendai Plant Restarts
Source: NewsTwo of Japan's 48 offline nuclear power plants were granted court permission for restarts, as the Kagoshima district court in southwest Japan refused to grant an injunction on behalf of local citizens who claimed the…
NEI Applauds House Appropriation Committee Commitment To Nuclear Energy
Source: NewsNuclear Energy Institute senior vice president for governmental affairs Alex Flint said he was pleased that the U.S. House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee had proposed a bump of 2.5 percent to nuclear energy programs for…
Deal Relaxes South Korea's Nuclear Fuel Stipulations With United States
Topics: Policy & RegulationSource: NewsThe United States and South Korea have reached a bilateral agreement on nuclear power that extends the Asian nation's ability to enrich uranium for nuclear power and to reprocess spent nuclear fuel. On another trade…
Japan’s Sendai Set For Restart After Court Rejects Legal Challenge
Source: NucNet22 Apr (NucNet): A court in Japan’s Kagoshima prefecture has rejected a legal bid to prevent the restart of the Sendai nuclear power station on safety grounds, paving the way for the two reactors to…
EDF Says Construction At Flamanville 3 To Continue As Vessel Head Steel Is Tested
Source: NewsFrench utility giant Elecricite de France (EDF) said Monday that it would continue with construction at the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in western Normandy while it waited for results of tests that would determine the…
Construction Of Emergency Air-Cooling System Complete At Finland’s Loviisa
Source: NucNet21 Apr (NucNet): Fortum has completed construction of a unique new emergency air-cooling system at the twin-unit Loviisa nuclear power station in Finland, the company said today. …
Federal Judge Says San Onofre Shut Down Debate Is A State Concern
Source: NewsA federal judge in San Diego on Friday referred the complaints over a cost-management plan involving the closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant to state courts, but otherwise held to an earlier agreement…
China Approves Construction Of ‘Hualong One’ Pilot Plants
Source: NucNet16 Apr (NucNet): China’s government yesterday approved the construction of pilot nuclear power units using the ACP-1000 reactor technology, also known as Hualong One, a domestically-developed third generation reactor design, official news agency Xinhua said.…
Russia Postpones Construction Of Generation IV BN-1200 Reactor
Source: NucNet15 Apr (NucNet): Construction of the Generation IV BN-1200 sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor at the Beloyarsk nuclear power station in central Russia has been postponed until at least 2020, with state nuclear operator Rosenergoatom citing…
NRC Says OK To Susquehanna Power Plant License Transfer
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the transfer of the operating licenses for Susquehanna Steam Electric Station's Unit 1 and 2, taking PPL Corporation a step closer to combining its electricity generation with RJS Power…
Spain’s Ferrovial Agroman Wins Fourth Major Iter Contract
Source: NucNet14 Apr (NucNet): The Spanish company Ferrovial Agroman has won a €30 million contract to design and build the high voltage power grid needed to supply power to plant systems such as heating, cryogenics and…
Robotic Inspection Inside Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 Abandoned
Source: NewsA shape-changing robot designed to inspect the inside of the containment vessels of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan stalled and was abandoned as it made its first inspection of the plant's…
TVA backs away from Bellefonte
Source: Neutron BytesThe giant utility says won’t fund completion of the 1260 MW plant In a new Integrated Resource Plan released for public comment this week, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) said it no longer has plans…
Doosan Celebrates Shipment of Barakah Reactors
Source: NewsSouth Korean conglomerate Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction said Thursday the company was celebrating the delivery of nuclear reactors designated for the United Arab Emirates' future generating station in Barakah. The company toasted the event…