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Coalition Meets to Promote Nuclear Industry in Virginia
Source: NewsA legislatively created board in Virginia met for the first time this week to promote nuclear power in the commonwealth. Earlier this year, Virginia passed a law creating the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority "for…
Government Gives Go-Ahead To Chinese Companies Taking Stake In UK New-Build
Source: NucNet17 Oct (NucNet): The UK government has announced it is to give the go-ahead to Chinese companies taking a stake – including potential future majority stakes – in the development of the next generation of…
Poland Nuclear Power Programme Sees First Reactor In Operation In 2024
Source: NucNet17 Oct (NucNet): The Polish ministry of economy has adopted a plan which defines the organisation of activities necessary to implement a civil nuclear power programme in the country, the ministry has said in a…
Offsite Power Cut Takes Pilgrim Nuclear Plant Offline Again
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsMassachusetts' Pilgrim nuclear plant shut down automatically and relied on its diesel generators for backup power Monday after an offsite power disruption brought about its third unplanned outage in as many months. An Entergy spokeswoman…
UK And China Sign Agreement That ‘Lays Foundation For Specific Cooperation’
Source: NucNet15 Oct (NucNet): The UK and China today signed a nuclear agreement that could provide the foundation for “specific areas of commercial cooperation”, British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said. …
Central Europe’s V4 Group Calls On EU To Support Nuclear Expansion
Source: NucNet15 Oct (NucNet): The Visegrad Four (V4) group of countries, which consists of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, supports nuclear energy and wants the European Union to help central Europe increase its nuclear…
Areva Consortium Wins Contract for MYRRHA Fast Reactor in Belgium
Source: NewsAn Areva-led consortium recently won a $33 million contract to help manage of one Europe's largest nuclear research projects. Belgian research center SCK CEN has spent several years designing a replacement for its 50-year-old BR2…
North Anna Reactor Back Online After Restart Glitch
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsUnit 1 at Virginia's North Anna nuclear plant returned to service over the weekend after a refueling outage and an aborted restart attempt that began Thursday. The Dominion reactor northwest of Richmond reached 48 percent…
Agreement Paves Way For US To Enter Vietnam New-Build Market
Source: NucNet14 Oct (NucNet): The US and Vietnam have signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement that will see US companies allowed to enter the Vietnamese nuclear market. …
Inspectors Ease Concrete Monitoring at Seabrook Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced it is satisfied with the program to handle concrete degradation at the Seabrook nuclear plant. Last week the agency announced it closed out a May 2012 confirmatory action letter…
Hanford Expected to Miss Cleanup Milestones
Source: NewsLast week the Department of Energy acknowledged it will most likely miss three deadlines laid out in a 2010 legal settlement. "The Department of Energy notified the states of Washington and Oregon that a serious…
Fennovoima Submits Safety Assessment For New Finnish Unit
Source: NucNet11 Oct (NucNet): A safety assessment of the technology for the planned Hanhikivi-1 nuclear power plant at Pyhäjoki in northern Finland has been submitted to the country’s regulator, the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK).…
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Source: NewsSix workers were exposed to contaminated water at Fukushima Daiichi this week, while the site also experienced an interruption to its electrical supply and slightly elevated levels of cesium were detected in ocean water near…
Tepco Updates Results Of Seawater Monitoring At Fukushima-Daiichi
Source: NucNet11 Oct (NucNet): A small amount of radioactive material has been measured at a monitoring point one kilometre offshore from the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant, operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said today. …
Premiere Scraps Plans for New Reactors in Ontario
Source: NewsThe head of Ontario's provincial government has set aside plans to build two new reactors, saying the current demand for power does not justify the expense. The Toronto Star and other Canadian outlets reported that…
OECD Head Calls For Governments To Aim For Zero Emissions
Source: NucNet11 Oct (NucNet): Governments need to start taking action to put the world on a pathway to achieve zero net greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels in the second half of this century, the head of…
Reactor Pressure Vessel Head Set At China’s Fangjiashan-1
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet11 Oct (NucNet): The reactor pressure vessel (RPV) head for Unit 1 of the Fangjiashan nuclear power plant in Zhejiang province, eastern China has been successfully set, the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has said.…
Contract Awarded For Barakah Cooling Water System
Source: NucNet11 Oct (NucNet): Hilal Bil Badi and Partners Contracting Company (Hilalco) has won a 60 million US dollars (45 million euros) contract to construct a cooling water system for the four nuclear power reactors the…
Russia Signs Cooperation Agreement With Czech Technical University
Source: NucNet11 Oct (NucNet): Rusatom Overseas, a subsidiary of the Russian state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Civil Nuclear Cooperation Centre at the Czech Technical University in Prague. …
U.K. Aims for GE-Hitachi ABWR Approval in 2017
Source: NewsOn Wednesday, regulators in the U.K. offered an update on their generic design assessment of the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor marketed by GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy. Based on progress made to date and their experience with…