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Japan Announces Moves To Improve International Communications
Source: NucNet13 Sept (NucNet): International information sharing about the causes of events, the progress of countermeasures, and contamination of the environment and food as a result of the March 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident will be strengthened, Japan’s…
Westinghouse to Segment Decommissioned Reactor Vessel in Spain
Source: NewsWestinghouse is helping to dismantle Spain’s first commercial nuclear plant. In a release Thursday, the Pennsylvania-headquartered Toshiba subsidiary said it will segment the reactor pressure vessel and RPV head at the decommissioned José Cabrera nuclear…
Areva Signs Used Fuel Storage Casks Contracts In Germany
Source: NucNet13 Sept (NucNet): Areva has signed a series of contracts in Germany for the delivery of more than 70 TN24E used fuel storage casks. …
UK Launches Consultation On Finding Repository Host
Source: NucNet12 Sept (NucNet): The UK government today launched a consultation on a revised proposed process for working with communities to agree a site for a deep geological disposal facility. …
Former Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour Open to Spent Fuel Storage
Source: NewsAfter a business group raised the idea last month, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday the possibility of storing nuclear waste in Mississippi is worth exploring. At a lunch for business leaders in Ridgeland,…
Japan Sets Up Team To Gather ‘Overseas Knowledge’ On Fukushima Issues
Source: NucNet12 Sept (NucNet): A team is being established to collect knowledge and expertise “at home and abroad” concerning the potential risks and solutions to contaminated water leaks and long-term decommissioning at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power…
NAS Report Critical of Intensive DOE Oversight at National Labs
Source: NewsFor the second year in a row, a report published by the National Academies of Science studied the work of U.S. national security laboratories, generally praising their scientific efforts but suggesting federal oversight has become…
Pilgrim Reactor Remains Offline to Fix Leak
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsRepairs have kept Entergy's Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts offline this week after an unexpected shutdown on Sunday night. The Cape Cod Times reported that the plant went offline to troubleshoot a small steam leak.…
New Agreement Could Allow PSEG Ownership Stake in Holtec SMR
Source: NewsHoltec International has announced a change in its partnership with PSEG that opens the door for the utility to buy into Holtec's small modular reactor project. Under an earlier agreement, PSEG would contribute reactor operations,…
API Services Announces Strategic Partnership in the Energy Sector.
Source: NewsAPI Services is an industry leading provider of state of the art metrology solutions to the Manufacturing, Automotive, Aerospace and Energy sectors. Integrating the latest technology and SMART Scanning Solution1, API Services has brought the…
Westinghouse, Toshiba And Exelon To Collaborate On Saudi Nuclear Projects
Source: NucNet10 Sept (NucNet): Exelon Nuclear Partners (ENP), a division of nuclear operator Exelon Generation, has signed agreements with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Westinghouse/Toshiba to provide its operational know-how as the teams pursue reactor construction…
Westinghouse and Exelon to Pursue Saudi Nuclear Plant Development
Source: NewsExelon Nuclear Partners, Westinghouse and its corporate parent Toshiba announced an agreement Monday the companies hope will boost their prospects for building new nuclear plants in Saudi Arabia. The Middle Eastern country in 2010 announced…
UK Prepares to Demolish Chimney at Site of Windscale Fire
Source: NewsWork has begun to remove the chimney of the first pile at Windscale – a landmark in Britain's nuclear history and the site of its worst accident. On Friday, Sellafield Ltd. announced the chimney had…
Control Rod Malfunction During Test Shuts Down Reactor at Calvert Cliffs
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsOperators shut down unit 2 at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant Thursday after a control rod dropped into the core during a test and could not be retrieved. The test took place at about 1:15…
Manchester University Opens ‘World-Leading’ Nuclear Research Facility
Topics: Research & TechnologySource: NucNet6 Sept (NucNet): The University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute will officially open a “world-leading academic research facility” for nuclear energy in northwest England today. …
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
Source: NewsThe Japanese government this week pledged more money to deal with water leaking from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, while Tokyo Electric Power Co. reported contamination outside additional tanks at the site. Recent developments…
Regulator Finds ‘No Violations’ At Baltic Nuclear Power Plant
Source: NucNet6 Sept (NucNet): Russian nuclear regulator Rostechnadzor has carried out a five-day field audit of the construction site for the Baltic nuclear power plant and has found “no violations”. …
Exposure Of Worker At CEA Facility In France Rated INES Level-2
Source: NucNet6 Sept (NucNet): An incident involving the exposure of a sub-contract worker at a research and development facility in Grenoble, France, has been provisionally rated as Level-2 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Events Scale…
Rolls Royce, Rosatom And Fortum Sign Agreement On Possible UK New Build
Source: NucNet6 Sept (NucNet): Rolls-Royce is to collaborate with Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom and Finnish utility Fortum to assess the feasibility of introducing Russian Generation III+ VVER nuclear reactor technology to the UK’s new-build…
SCE Publishes 3,200 Pages of Documentation on Faulty SONGS Steam Generators
Source: NewsAs its dispute with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries heats up, Southern California Edison has released thousands of pages of correspondence, contracts and technical documents related to MHI steam generators at the now-shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant.…