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Westinghouse to Provide Instrumentation for Reactors in Finland
Source: NewsWestinghouse and its parent company Toshiba have announced a contract to supply reactor-core instrumentation for a nuclear plant in Finland. Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) selected the companies to install traversing in-core probes at Olkiluoto 1…
1,100-ton CA20 Module Placed at New Vogtle Reactor
Source: NewsCrews building two new reactors at Plant Vogtle recently completed their heaviest lift to date, placing the 1,100-ton CA20 module into unit 3's nuclear island. The module contains entire rooms pre-built with wiring, plumbing and…
Nine Mile Point Back Online After Problem with Electrical Equipment
Source: NewsUnit 2 at Nine Mile Point in upstate New York is back online after the failure of an uninterruptible power supply prompted operators to shut it down last week. The Valley News reported that the…
Recovery Operation Begins After WIPP Radiation Release
Source: NucNet10 Mar (NucNet): The operator of the US Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico has begun the first phase of an underground recovery process that will lead to the resumption…
Contractor Transition Begins at Pantex and Y12
Source: NewsA Bechtel-led consortium is preparing to assume management of the Y-12 and Pantex sites after more than a year of appeals from their previous contractor. Babcock & Wilcox-led Nuclear Production Partners recently lost its third…
Three Years On, First Evacuees Are Ready To Return To Fukushima Homes
Source: NucNet10 Mar (NucNet): Residents of the town of Tamura who were evacuated following the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident are to be allowed to move back into their homes, Japanese authorities have said. …
NRC Publishes Annual Rundown of Safety at U.S. Reactors
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission has finished its annual assessments of the safety at America's 100 operating power reactors. Eighty held its highest safety performance rating at the close of 2013, with safety standings fleet wide…
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Source: NewsTechnology to measure infant radiation doses and to better enable cleanup activities at Fukushima Daiichi highlighted the news from Japan last week. While in Tokyo, protests formed last weekend following the news that Tokyo Electric…
Salem Reactor Operator Tests Positive for Cocaine
Source: NewsA random fitness for duty test last week suggested a senior reactor operator at the Salem nuclear plant had been using cocaine. The licensed employee's access to the plant was restricted after the failed test,…
Russia’s Rostov-3 Reaches Construction Milestones
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet7 Mar (NucNet): The welding of pipes for the emergency core cooling system (ECCS) has been completed and the pressuriser installed at Unit 3 of Russia’s Rostov nuclear power station, Rosenergoatom, the nuclear power station…
Fennovoima Seeks Revised Government Approval For Hanhikivi
Source: NucNet7 Mar (NucNet): Finnish utility Fennovoima has asked the government for a revised decision-in-principle for the construction of the new Hanhikivi nuclear power station at Pyhäjoki in northwest Finland, the company said in a statement.…
Contaminated Equipment Removed From Sellafield Storage Pond
Topics: Fuel & WasteSource: NucNet7 Mar (NucNet): Workers at Sellafield in the UK have removed 100 tonnes of contaminated, redundant equipment from the oldest fuel storage pond at the site. …
White House Proposes Cuts to Hanford Budget
Source: NewsA proposal by the White House to reduce spending at the Hanford site next year has raised objections from Washington legislators on both sides of the aisle. The administration proposed spending $2.083 billion for cleanup…
TVEL To Honour Fuel Commitments, Despite Ukraine Transport Ban
Source: NucNet6 Mar (NucNet): Russian nuclear fuel company TVEL has said it will honour all its nuclear fuel supply commitments to foreign nuclear power stations, despite a ban on transporting fuel cycle products across Ukraine by…
US Regulator Asks For USD 3.6 Million Budget Increase For 2015
Source: NucNet5 Mar (NucNet): The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has requested a budget of 1.05 billion US dollars (USD) (772 million euros) for 2015 to regulate nuclear power plants and users of nuclear materials, the…
Industry Calls For Equal Treatment Of Nuclear In European Climate Change Policy
Topics: Policy & RegulationSource: NucNet5 Mar (NucNet): Measures provided for the support of renewable energy sources should apply to nuclear energy in order to create “a level-playing field” for all low-carbon technologies, European nuclear energy industry association Foratom has…
President Cuts SRS MOX Project from Proposed Budget
Source: NewsIn light of substantial cost overruns, an ongoing project to build a MOX fuel plant at the Savannah River Site has lost the support of the White House in its 2015 federal budget proposal. "Following…
Police Called After Activists Enter Oskarshamn
Source: NucNet5 Mar (NucNet): Activists who entered the grounds of the Oskarshamn nuclear power station in Sweden this morning managed to use ropes to climb onto a building near Units 1 and 2, but not onto…
Report: Exelon Warns Ill. Legislators of Possible Nuclear Plant Closures at Byron, Quad Cities and Clinton
Source: NewsExelon executives and lobbyists have reportedly warned legislators in Illinois that several reactors employing 2,300 people in the state might be shut down unless market conditions improve. Citing off-the-record interviews and documents circulating in the…
Japan Ministers Approve Nuclear As ‘Key Baseload Power’
Source: NucNet4 Mar (NucNet): Ministers in Japan have approved a portion of a draft basic energy plan that calls for nuclear energy to be a key baseload power source as long as its safety can be…