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Prairie Island Unit 1 and Monticello Nuclear Plants are Down for Repairs
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: NewsOperators shut down Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant to repair a gasket on a pipe flange, while in an unrelated action Tuesday, operators at Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant shut down Unit 1 to repair two…
NuScale Meets With US and Canadian Utilities to Discuss SMR Development
Source: NewsRepresentatives from more than a dozen U.S. and Canadian utilities met with NuScale Power at its Corvallis, Ore., offices July 24-26, for the small modular reactor developer's semi-annual Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meeting. NuScale Power's…
Kudankulam Unit-1 Gets Go-Ahead For Fuel Loading
Source: NucNet13 Aug (NucNet): India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has given approval for initial fuel loading and first approach to criticality of unit-1 of Kudankulam nuclear power station at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu. …
Petten Begins Tests On Radioisotope Production Using LEU
Source: NucNet10 Aug (NucNet): Operators at the High Flux Reactor (HFR) at Petten in the Netherlands have begun a test irradiation for producing medical isotopes with low-enriched uranium (LEU) as a raw material. …
Doel-3 Shut Down After Discovery Of Possible Cracks
Source: NucNet10 Aug (NucNet): Belgium has temporarily shut down one of its seven nuclear reactor units after the country’s regulator discovered “several anomalies”, including possible cracks, in the reactor pressure vessel. …
Onagawa ‘Remarkably Undamaged’ By Earthquake, Says IAEA
Source: NucNet10 Aug (NucNet): An initial report about the effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake on the Onagawa nuclear power station says the plant was “remarkably undamaged” despite “very high levels of ground shaking”. …
TechPrecision Receives Order for Nuclear Isotope Transport Casks
Source: NewsTechPrecision Corporation manufacturer of precision, large-scale fabricated and machined metal components and systems for the nuclear industry announced that it has received an order, valued at approximately $1.5 million, to produce nuclear isotope transport casks…
UK Magnox Unit Granted Lifetime Extension
Source: NucNet9 Aug (NucNet): The UK’s last remaining commercially operational Magnox reactor unit will continue to generate electricity until September 2014, almost four years beyond its original closure date. …
Managers, Guards Disciplined for Y12 Security Breach
Source: NewsSo far, at least six people have been disciplined after reports that anti-nuclear weapons protestors breached security outside a uranium storage facility at the Y-12 site.
Martin Fleischmann, Made Famous for Disputed Cold Fusion Experiment, Dies at 85
Topics: Research & TechnologySource: NewsMartin Fleischmann — whose cold fusion experiment briefly made him a household name in 1989 before it was debunked by his fellow scientists — died Aug. 3 at the age of 85.
Fukushima Marked End Of Isolation For Nuclear Industry, IYNC Told
Source: NucNet7 Aug (NucNet): The Fukushima-Daiichi accident in Japan marked “the end of isolation” for the nuclear energy industry, which now needs new global leaders who can focus on lessons learned around the world, a conference…
Ventyx to Provide Software to Koeberg Nuclear Plant, Other South African Power Facilities
Source: NewsABB subsidiary Ventyx announced $7 million in contracts with South African utility Eskom Monday for software at electric facilities that include the Koeberg nuclear plant.
Four Arrested in Livermore Lab Protest
Source: NewsFour activists participating in a mock “foreclosure” of the Lawrence Livermore national lab in California were arrested without incident Sunday.
US Court Delays Decision On Licensing Of Yucca Mountain
Source: NucNet6 Aug (NucNet): The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said it will wait until Congress sets the fiscal 2013 budget before it decides whether to order the Nuclear Regulatory Commission…
Summer Nuclear Plant Construction Progress Outlined in SCANA Earnings Announcement
Source: NewsSCANA's second quarter earnings call Thursday featured updates on the new reactor construction at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant, in addition to the company's take on the Chicago Bridge and Iron (CB&I) acquisition of project…
Appeals Court Delays Yucca Mountain Decision
Source: NewsIn a decision Friday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to rule on a license application for the Yucca Mountain waste repository, instead delaying the case for four…
CNPEC And Onet Technologies Sign Cooperation Agreement
Source: NucNet3 Aug (NucNet): China Nuclear Power Engineering Company (CNPEC) and France-based engineering services company Onet Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on nuclear decommissioning and waste management in Europe and China. …
Areva Completes First In-Field Use of In-Cask Dry Storage Inspection System
Source: NewsAreva announced it has collected data on temperature and surface conditions inside dry casks for spent nuclear fuel using instruments developed by its Transnuclear subsidiary.
NuScale Commissions SMR Control Room Simulator – First of Its Kind
Source: NewsEngineers at NuScale Power now have a more realistic picture of what it would be like to operate a small modular reactor, following the completion of a simulated control room.In a release, NuScale said the…
Bechtel Picks Up CNPEC Consulting Contract
Source: NewsChina Nuclear Power Engineering Corp. (CNPEC) has hired industrial construction giant Bechtel to help enhance its construction management. Bechtel announced Wednesday that it will provide training and education to the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group…