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Westinghouse To Provide Hydrogen Recombiners For Ukraine’s Zaporozhye
Source: NucNet30 Oct (NucNet): The Westinghouse Electric Company has been awarded a contract by Ukraine’s National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom to provide a passive hydrogen control system for the Zaporozhye-1 and -2 nuclear units, Westinghouse…
NRC License Renewal Hiatus Over, But Familiar Lawsuits Loom
Source: NewsThe U.S. Energy Information Administration said Wednesday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had resumed issuing 20-year nuclear plant license renewals just as nine environment groups and the National Resources Defense Council filed lawsuits in the…
China’s Hongyanhe-3 Achieves First Criticality
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet29 Oct (NucNet): The Hongyanhe-3 nuclear unit in Liaoning province, northeastern China, has achieved first criticality, the China Nuclear Energy Agency (CNEA) has said. …
Exelon Generation, GEH, Sign $300M Service Contract Covering 14 BWRs
Source: NewsIndustry giants Exelon Generation and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy have signed a $300 million integrated outage service contract that covers the entire Exelon stable of boiling water nuclear energy facilities, the companies announced. GEH will…
L-3 MAPPS to Replace St. Lucie Plant Simulator I/O System
Source: NewsL-3 MAPPS announced today that it has received another order from Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) to replace the input/output (I/O) system on the St. Lucie Plant full scope simulator. The I/O system is…
Green Light From Local Assembly For First Restart In Japan
Source: NucNet28 Oct (NucNet): Local assembly members voted today to approve the restart of the two-unit Sendai nuclear station in Japan after it became the first nuclear facility to meet revised safety standards imposed after the…
Adam Smith Institute Study Tears Into Wind Power
Source: NewsA study released by the Adam Smith Institute in Britain called wind power an inadequate, inefficient and unreliable power source that should be ranked behind nuclear and gas as a low-impact energy alternative. The Adam…
Perry Plant Restarted After Week Long Shutdown
Source: NewsThe Perry nuclear power plant in North Perry, Ohio, was restarted Monday at noon after a week long shutdown, the Plain Dealer reported. The 1,260MW plant shut down a week ago during a routine maintenance…
Areva-Siemens Increases Olkiluoto-3 Claim To €3.5 Billion
Source: NucNet27 Oct (NucNet): The Areva-Siemens consortium building the Olkiluoto-3 EPR nuclear reactor for Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) in Finland has raised its arbitration claim against the Finnish utility from €2.6 billion to €3.5 billion, a…
Consumer Group Seeks to Put Brakes on San Onofre Deal
Source: NewsA deal to have Southern California Edison customers responsible for $3.3 billion of about $4.6 billion in unassigned San Onofre costs could be put on hold, if a consumer group from San Diego has its…
Limerick Generating Station Cited for Security Issue
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said security issues at the Limerick nuclear power plant warranted increased oversight of the facility. The cause for a supplemental review of security at the plant are not revealed to the…
Anti-nuclear groups lose on Limerick, widen activism at four other plants
Source: Neutron BytesLimerick twin units get 20 year license extensions Green groups critical of three Entergy plants Anti-nuclear activist wants to pull the plug on Davis-Besse power agreement Exelon’s Limerick Units 1 & 2 have had their…
Japan’s man to restart its reactors arrives with baggage
Source: Neutron BytesNewly appointed METI Chief Yoichi Miyazawa owns stock in TEPCO. His aide put a trip to a sex club on the government’s tab. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cannot catch a break with the post…
Ontario Power Generation Re-Asserts Case for Underground Repository
Source: NewsOntario Power Generation told a federal advisory panel that the deep geologic repository (DGR) for nuclear waste under the shores of Lake Huron is not a significant risk to the environment and will not violate…
IAEA Identifies Good Practices At Flamanville-1 And -2
Source: NucNet24 Oct (NucNet): An International Atomic Energy Agency assessment of EDF's Flamanville-1 and Flamanville-2 in France identified a number of good practices at the station that will be shared with the nuclear industry globally, a…
EU Announces ‘Landmark Deal’ On Climate Change
Source: NucNet24 Oct (NucNet): European Union leaders have agreed what they called “a landmark deal” on climate change, with a commitment by 2030 to a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels. …
NRC Renews Dry Spent Fuel Storage License for Calvert Cliffs
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it had approved a 40-year license for dry spent-fuel storage at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant in Lusby, Md. Although Exelon Generation is responsibility for periodic inspections and maintaining the…
Turkey Plans on a 100 Percent Domestic Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsTurkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday that the country would build its third nuclear power plant within five years and that it would be a 100 percent domestic project. At a press conference held…
DOE Awards U. of Pittsburgh Nearly $1M to Develop Radiation-Resistant Sensors
Source: NewsThe Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Enabling Technology program has awarded researchers at the University of Pittsburgh a $987,000 grant to work with Corning Inc. and Westinghouse Electric to develop radiation-resistant fiber optic sensor networks…
Belgium’s New Coalition Government Lays Out Plans For Nuclear
Source: NucNet23 Oct (NucNet): Possible lifetime extensions for the Doel-1 and -2 nuclear reactor units in Belgium will not go beyond 2025, the agreement for the country’s new centre-right federal government says. …