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IEA Report Looks At Economics Of Nuclear In Southeast Asia
Source: NucNet2 Oct (NucNet): Nuclear energy has the highest assumed capital costs of key power generation technologies that could be used in Southeast Asia, but it has the best potential capacity factor and the longest plant…
Russia Signs Agreement For Design Work On First Bangladesh Nuclear Plant
Source: NucNet2 Oct (NucNet): Russia has signed an agreement with Bangladesh for design work on the country’s first nuclear power plant. The work will take about two years and will be used as the basis for…
Westinghouse To Take Part in Spanish Nuclear Waste Project
Source: NewsWestinghouse announced a multimillion-dollar contract with Spanish regulators Tuesday to help build an interim storage site for spent fuel and other nuclear waste. Under the deal, the terms of which were not announced, Westinghouse will…
Emergency Control Centre Begins Operation At China’s Qinshan
Source: NucNet1 Oct (NucNet): A new emergency control centre has begun operation at the Qinshan nuclear plant in eastern China. It is one of the key safety improvements carried out following the March 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident.…
Jellyfish Force Shutdown at Swedish Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsA mass of jellyfish has threatened to clog the water intake at a reactor in Sweden, forcing the plant offline. OKG, a consortium of EON and Fortum Oyj, announced the shutdown at unit three of…
Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant Shut Down to Fix Turbine Speed Controller
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsOperators took New Jersey's Oyster Creek nuclear plant offline Monday to repair equipment in its turbine. Quoting a statement from plant owner Exelon, the Newark Star-Ledger reported crews could not conduct the work on a…
Construction Begins On Tianwan-4, One Month Ahead Of Schedule
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNet30 Sept (NucNet): Construction of Unit 4 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in Jiangsu province, eastern China, has begun with the pouring of first concrete a month ahead of schedule, the China National Nuclear…
Fines Issued for Workplace Fatality at Arkansas Nuclear One
Source: NewsThe Department of Labor has issued $175,000 in fines to several companies involved in an accident that took the life of a worker at Arkansas Nuclear One earlier this year. During an outage at unit…
Canada Finalizes Nuclear Export Deal With India
Source: NewsCanada and India finalized a nuclear cooperation agreement last week, opening Canada's sizeable uranium industry to one of the world's fastest-growing markets for nuclear power. Canada has not shared nuclear technology with the subcontinent since…
IAEA Praises Bulgaria’s Kozloduy Nuclear Plant
Source: NucNet27 Sept (NucNet): Kozloduy nuclear power plant in Bulgaria has significant experience in the long-term storage of spent fuel, which is important for the International Atomic Energy Agency and should be disseminated to other member…
Waste Shipment Arrives In Belgium From Areva’s La Hague
Topics: Fuel & WasteSource: NucNet27 Sept (NucNet): Casks containing 48 containers of metallic compacted nuclear waste have arrived in Belgium from France – the eighth transport of its kind between the two countries. …
Babcock & Wilcox-Led Consortium Loses Challenge to Y-12/Pantex Contract Process
Source: NewsAs the National Nuclear Security Administration reevaluates contractors' proposals to run its Y-12 and Pantex sites, a Babcock & Wilcox-led consortium has lost a legal protest of the way those proposals are evaluated. The stakes…
With Treatment Facility Stalled, Hanford Offers New Waste Strategy
Source: NewsOn Tuesday, the Department of Energy floated a series of ideas to speed the removal of tank waste from the Hanford site before completion of treatment equipment stalled by technical problems. "This framework describes a…
Water Case Brings out Supporters and Foes of Proposed Utah Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsBlue Castle Holdings is making the case that a new nuclear plant in Utah is both necessary and feasible during a court proceeding this week that could determine the future of the project. Led by…
Nuclear Growth To Continue Despite Fukushima, Says IAEA
Source: NucNet25 Sept (NucNet): Growth in nuclear energy following the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident is expected to continue, but at a rate lower than estimated before the March 2011 accident, the International Atomic Energy Agency has said.…
FirstEnergy Planning Steam Generator, Pressure Vessel Head Replacement at Beaver Valley 2
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsOn Tuesday, FirstEnergy told federal regulators it has scheduled a major overhaul of unit 2 at the Beaver Valley nuclear plant for 2017. The outage will see replacement of the reactor's original steam generators and…
US Begins Work On Nuclear Plant Cancer Risks Study
Source: NucNet24 Sept (NucNet): The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has started work on a Nuclear Regulatory Commission-sponsored pilot study of cancer risks in populations around six US nuclear power plants and a nuclear fuel-cycle…
Regulators Again Point to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Faulty Modeling of San Onofre Steam Generators
Source: NewsFaulting software errors by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, federal regulators have determined the steam generator design flaws that ultimately shuttered the San Onofre nuclear plant likely amounted to violations of its license. Southern California Edison closed…
Small Fire Reported at Idaho Nuclear Waste Cleanup Site
Source: NewsWorkers safely evacuated a building at the Idaho National Laboratory Friday during a fire at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project. The Department of Energy offered few details about the incident, but the Idaho State…
France Plans Nuclear Tax To Fund Energy Transition
Source: NucNet23 Sept (NucNet): France plans to introduce a tax on nuclear energy as well as a tax on carbon emissions from fossil fuels to raise billions of euros needed to boost renewable power and improve…