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Lloyd’s Register Energy Wins Two Major Nuclear Contracts
Source: NucNet15 Aug (NucNet): Lloyd’s Register Energy, a global engineering, technical and business services organisation, has won two nuclear contracts which will see the it supporting the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) in the United…
L-3 MAPPS to Update Ling Ao and Ling Ao Phase II Reactor Core Models
Source: NewsMONTREAL, August 14, 2014 – L-3 MAPPS announced today that it has signed a contract with Daya Bay Nuclear Power Operations and Management Company (DNMC), Ling Ao Nuclear Power Company (LANPC) and Ling Dong Nuclear…
Approval For Two New Units At Hongyanhe Imminent, China NEA Says
Source: NucNet14 Aug (NucNet): Construction of two new nuclear units at the Hongyanhe power station in Liaoning province will be approved by the end of 2014, the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA) has said. …
Report: Watts Bar 2 Budget and Schedule Remain On Track
Source: NewsA quarterly update on the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar 2 completion project forecasts that the reactor remains on track to become the first new unit brought online in the U.S. since 1996. Work restarted…
Faulty Signal Trips Indian Point Reactor
Source: NewsA safety system erroneously tripped unit 3 at New York's Indian Point nuclear plant Wednesday. The reactor shut down automatically at 11:57 a.m., according to an Entergy release. Safety systems initiated the trip because of…
90% Of Spent Fuel Assemblies Removed From Fukushima Unit 4, Says Tepco
Topics: Fuel & WasteSource: NucNet13 Aug (NucNet): Almost 90 percent of spent fuel assemblies from the spent fuel pool at Fukushima-Daiichi Unit 4 have been transferred to a central storage pool with the remainder scheduled to be removed by…
Brunswick Nuclear Plant Declares Unusual Event After Fire Suppression System Activated in Simulator
Source: NewsDuke Energy issued an emergency declaration at its Brunswick nuclear plant as a precaution Tuesday after the Halon system activated in its control room simulator. Per Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules, the plant declared an unusual…
Schedule Pushed Back for New Reactors at V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsOn Monday, the majority owner of two reactors under construction at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant announced that the units will come online a year later than expected. Scana Corp. said in a release that…
Four Reactors in UK Taken Offline to Check for Boiler Defects
Source: NewsEDF is taking four of the UK's 16 operating power reactors offline to inspect them for a potential defect identified during a refueling outage. Unit 1 at the Heysham 1 plant was offline for a…
EDF Energy Shuts Down UK Reactors To Investigate Possible Defect
Source: NucNet11 Aug (NucNet): EDF Energy has shut down two reactors at the Heysham A nuclear power station and two reactors at the Hartlepool nuclear station after a possible defect was detected on the spine of…
Texas County Considers Pursuit of Interim Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Site
Source: NewsLoving County in remote West Texas is the latest community to consider hosting the type of interim spent fuel storage facility supported by the Obama administration as an alternative to the mothballed Yucca Mountain repository…
Russia's Rosatom to Build Two Inland China Reactors
Source: NewsRosatom reported last week that China has invited the Russian state-controlled nuclear power firm to build new reactors at an inland site. Russia's ITAR-TASS news service reported Thursday that a Russian delegation will soon assess…
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Source: NewsThis week, Tokyo Electric Power Co. released an analysis of several unanswered questions raised by the cascade of events in March of 2011 that destroyed four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan.…
Duke to Auction Equipment from Shuttered Crystal River Reactor
Source: NewsLooking for a good deal on power plant components? Distribution equipment? Shop tools? Duke Energy plans to auction a range of new and used equipment from its Crystal River 3 nuclear plant next month. Crystal…
Sanmen-2 RPV Ready For Installation
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet8 Aug (NucNet): The reactor pressure vessel for China’s AP1000 Sanmen-2 reactor has been delivered to the construction site in preparation for installation. It is the first AP1000 vessel to be domestically produced, manufacturer China…
Hydrostatic Testing Of Primary Loops Complete At China’s Fuqing-2
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet7 Aug (NucNet): Hydrostatic testing of the primary loops at the Fuqing-2 nuclear unit under construction in Fujian province, southeastern China, has been completed, the regulator has said. …
Safety System Trips La Salle Reactor
Source: NewsUnit 2 at Exelon's La Salle nuclear plant in Illinois tripped offline Tuesday when a safety system activated unexpectedly. At 5:34 p.m., the reactor protection system shut the unit down automatically when main steam isolation…
Public Records Suit Discloses Payouts for Former Fort Calhoun Managers
Source: NewsA public records lawsuit made headlines in Nebraska this week by disclosing severance payments for former executives overseeing the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant. Fort Calhoun was offline for more than two and half years following…
SCE Outlines San Onofre DECON Decommissioning Plan
Source: NewsSouthern California Edison has revealed its tentative plan to decommission the San Onofre nuclear plant, which permanently closed last year after its steam generators experienced premature wear. The utility presented its decommissioning timeline and cost…
Transatomic Gets ‘Seed Money’ Investor For Advanced Molten Salt Reactor
Source: NucNet6 Aug (NucNet): A Massachusetts company developing an advanced molten salt nuclear reactor has announced that FF Science, an investment vehicle of Founders Fund, has invested two million US dollars (1.49 million euros) to help…