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IAEA Completes First Ever Corporate Safety Review, At Czech Republic's ČEZ
Source: NucNet10 Oct (NucNet): A team of nuclear safety experts led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) yesterday completed the first corporate safety review, at ČEZ, a nuclear operator and the largest national electricity company…
EC Excludes Nuclear Power From New State Aid Guidelines
Source: NucNet9 Oct (NucNet): The European Commission has decided to exclude nuclear power from new guidelines on state aid for energy and environmental protection set to be adopted in 2014, Joaquín Almunia, commissioner for competition, has…
Offline Inspection Finds Potential Coolant Leak at Palo Verde Reactor
Source: NewsInspections during a routine outage revealed evidence of a potential leak in the reactor pressure vessel of Palo Verde unit 3. Visual checks Sunday turned up a white residue around an RPV bottom-mounted instrumentation nozzle,…
Bulgarian Ministry Approves Kozloduy EIA Report
Source: NucNet8 Oct (NucNet): Bulgaria’s Ministry of Environment and Water has approved the environmental impact assessment (EIA) report on the proposal to build a new nuclear reactor on the site of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant.…
Spain And Japan Regulators Sign Nuclear Information Agreement
Source: NucNet8 Oct (NucNet): The nuclear regulators of Spain and Japan have signed an agreement to exchange information about nuclear safety and radiation protection focusing on operational experience and lessons learned from nuclear accidents. …
Problems During Restart Trip Oyster Creek Reactor for Second Time in Three Days
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsOperators began powering up Exelon's Oyster Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey Sunday only to shut it down because of a problem with the condenser. At about 10:40 a.m., the General Electric Type 2 boiling…
Reactor Pressure Vessel Arrives At Flamanville-3 Site
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet7 Oct (NucNet): The reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for EDF’s Flamanville-3 EPR unit has been delivered to the construction site in northern France. …
NEA Urges Governments Not To Delay Development Of ‘Firm’ SNF Strategies
Source: NucNet7 Oct (NucNet): Some countries are delaying the development of a “firm or single strategy” for dealing with spent nuclear fuel (SNF) because they face political and societal hurdles, a report by the Organisation for…
Hanford News: URS Whistleblower Laid Off, Report Finds Fault With Vit Plant Documentation
Source: NewsURS Corp. has laid off an engineer who raised concerns about the safety of a vitrification plant under construction at Hanford that has since stalled because of design problems. The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday…
Areva Opens New U.S. Headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.
Topics: Industry & BusinessSource: NewsFrench nuclear firm Areva officially opened its new U.S. headquarters last week after moving its corporate offices from suburban Washington, D.C., to North Carolina. Executives and local dignitaries held a ceremony Thursday at Areva's new…
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Source: NewsOver the last week, workers have confronted another leaking tank, a partial shutdown of nitrogen injection equipment and a glitch in a water treatment system at Fukushima Daiichi. Recent developments related to the Tokyo Electric…
V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant Construction Exec Leaves for SMR Developer Generation mPower
Source: NewsA small modular reactor developer has hired a new chief operating offer who previously oversaw the contract to build two new reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant. Babcock & Wilcox announced William Fox III…
Centralised Waste Storage Facility Project On Schedule, Says Spain
Topics: Fuel & WasteSource: NucNet4 Oct (NucNet): The project to implement a centralised interim storage facility (Almacén Temporal Centralizado, or ATC) for all high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel generated in Spain is on schedule and work could start…
Belarus Approves Design Documentation For First Nuclear Plant
Source: NucNet4 Oct (NucNet): The Council of Ministers of Belarus has approved the design documentation for the country’s first nuclear power plant, state news agency Belta has said. …
Russian Company Wins Radiation Monitoring Systems Contracts
Source: NucNet4 Oct (NucNet): SNIIP Systematom, a Russian engineering company for nuclear and radiation safety systems, will supply the equipment for automated radiation monitoring systems (Arms) at the Kalinin-1 nuclear unit in Russia and Tianwan-4 in…
Canada-India Nuclear Deal Comes Into Force
Source: NucNet4 Oct (NucNet): Cameco Corporation and other Canadian uranium producers will be able to export to India for the first time under an agreement that came into effect this week. …
Areva’s NEA Partnership Continues Vital Research Into PWR Safety
Source: NucNet3 Oct (NucNet): In a special report online today NucNet looks at a nuclear energy test facility operated by Areva where researchers are helping to verify cool-down procedures and operator-initiated countermeasures that could help mitigate…
Borssele Meets Conditions For Continued Operation, Says Official Report
Source: NucNet3 Oct (NucNet): The single-unit Borssele nuclear plant in the Netherlands is “well within” the top 25 percent safest water-cooled and water-moderated reactors in the EU, US and Canada, and meets conditions allowing it to…
Energy Department, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Contend With Government Shutdown
Source: NewsThe government shutdown prompted this week by the failure of Congress to pass a fiscal year 2014 budget has kept employees home across the federal workforce, although the people charged with ensuring the safety of…
Bangladesh Breaks Ground for First Nuclear Plant
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NewsBangladesh has formally begun work on its first nuclear power plant. The heads of Rosatom subsidiary NIAEP and the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission signed a construction contract Wednesday, Russian news agency Itar-Tass reported. Russia, which…