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Usec to Emerge from Bankruptcy With New Name
Source: NewsUranium enrichment company Usec announced it has reached a deal with its creditors and will emerge from bankruptcy under a new name later this month. In a release Friday, the company confirmed a court has…
More Blade Cracking Reported in Susquehanna Steam Turbine
Source: NewsPPL shut down unit 2 at its Susquehanna nuclear plant over the weekend after indications of additional turbine blade cracking that has bedeviled both of the Pennsylvania reactors in recent years. Vibration data from equipment…
Replacing Russia’s Kursk Station To Cost EUR 8 Billion, Rosatom Says
Source: NucNet9 Sep (NucNet): Investment in all four units of the proposed Kursk 2 nuclear power station, planned to replace the existing Kursk station, will total more than 400 billion Russian roubles (RUB) (about 8.3 billion…
Companies Chosen For Fukushima-Daiichi Tritium Demonstration Project
Source: NucNet8 Sep (NucNet): Japan has chosen three companies to perform demonstrations in a project to verify technologies for separating tritium from contaminated water at the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station. …
India and Australia Reach Uranium Trade Deal
Source: NewsAustralia, one of the world's leading uranium producers, has reached a groundbreaking agreement allowing export of the reactor fuel to India. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the accord…
China's Largest Nuclear Power Company Files IPO
Source: NewsChina's largest nuclear power company filed for a $2 billion initial public offering in Hong Kong last week. Filing documents for China General Nuclear Group reported by Dow Jones and Agence France Presse did not…
NRC Chairman to do live webinar with nuclear bloggers
Topics: Policy & RegulationSource: Neutron BytesAllison Macfarlane will spend an hour taking questions on September 11 The American Nuclear Society ( ANS ) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) will co-host a live Q&A session with NRC Chairman…
NuGen Re-Commences Site Assessment Work At UK’s Moorside
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet5 Sep (NucNet): The UK-based nuclear energy company planning to build three Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at the Moorside nuclear site in Cumbria, England, has re-commenced site assessment work. …
EDF Energy Announces Plans To Restart Heysham A And Hartlepool
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NucNet5 Sep (NucNet): EDF Energy expects to restart its two-unit Heysham A and Hartlepool gas-cooled reactor stations in phases between the end of October and the end of December, the UK company said. …
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Source: NewsDebris dropped into a spent fuel pool at unit 3, additional cement for the floor of a manmade harbor, and the likely closure of a reactor elsewhere in Japan were among the headlines this week…
Hitachi, U.S. Universities Pursue Technology to Burn Transuranics in Boiling Water Reactors
Source: NewsSeeking a better way to dispose of long-lived transuranic elements, Hitachi recently announced a second round of research with American universities exploring a technology to use them in boiling water reactor fuel. The project aims…
Dounreay Sends Seventeenth Nuclear Waste Shipment To Belgium
Topics: Fuel & WasteSource: NucNet5 Sep (NucNet): The seventeenth shipment of cemented radioactive waste from Scotland’s Dounreay nuclear site to Belgium has been completed, Belgium’s Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC), has said. …
Saudi Conference To Address New Build In The Middle East
Source: NucNet5 Sept (NucNet): A conference on 5 and 6 November 2014 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, will address the Saudi Nuclear Energy Programme and bring together experts from the region to discuss the future of energy…
Belgian Regulator Says Doel-3, Tihange-2 To Stay Offline This Winter
Source: NucNet5 Sep (NucNet): Belgium’s Doel-3 and Tihange-2 nuclear units, both of which have been shut down since March, will not restart this winter, Jan Bens, director of Belgium’s Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (Fanc), told…
Regulators Confirm SCE Was Forthcoming in San Onofre Investigation
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission has found that Southern California Edison did not withhold information during an agency investigation into the premature wear of steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear plant. An earlier NRC investigation…
Report: Kenyan Nuclear Power Planning Moving Forward with Help of South Korea, U.S., China
Source: NewsAn official in Kenya has confirmed that the country hopes to build a 1,000 megawatt nuclear plant in the next decade and has sent delegations to South Korea, the U.S. and China to explore potential…
China Signs Deal To Help Build New Argentina Reactor
Source: NucNet4 Sep (NucNet): China and Argentina have signed an agreement that could lead to detailed contracts for the construction in Argentina of a six billion US dollar (USD) (4.5 billion euros) Candu-6 reactor that will…
Construction Progresses At Three Nuclear Stations In Russia
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet3 Sep (NucNet): Russia’s nuclear engineering services provider Atomenergoprom has announced progress at three nuclear new-build projects. …
Russia Confirms Decommissioning Of RB-10/1 Research Reactor
Source: NucNet3 Sep (NucNet): The RB-10/1 research reactor in southwest Russia has been fully decommissioned and removed from the site, with some of its components used to increase the capacity of a sister unit, Russia’s state…
Workers, Lab Safe After Plutonium Sample Dropped at NIST
Source: NewsA wafer of plutonium-239 fell to the floor and broke at a National Institute of Standards and Technology facility in Maryland Friday afternoon. The material broke in half when dropped from its holder following neutron…