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Exelon to Close Oyster Creek Generating Station in 2019
Source: NewsExelon President and COO Chris Crane announced today that the company will operate the Oyster Creek Generating Station in New Jersey until 2019, after which the plant will retire. The plant is federally licensed to…
Westinghouse Wins Contract for Emergency Power Supply Buildings for Beznau Nuclear Plant
Source: NewsWestinghouse Electric Company has won a contract valued at $172 million to provide two new emergency power buildings with related emergency power systems for Axpo AG’s Beznau Nuclear Power Plant in Dottingen, Switzerland. Beznau is…
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Submits Application to Renew Advanced Boiling Water Reactor
Source: News“The GEH ABWR technology remains the world’s only Generation III design in operation,” said Danny Roderick, senior vice president. GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) announced it has submitted its application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory…
DOE Awards B&W a Contract for Operation of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion at Paducah Facilities
Source: NewsThe Department of Energy announced today that a $428 million, five-year contract has been awarded to the Babcock & Wilcox Conversion Services, LLC (B&WCS, LLC) of Lynchburg, Virginia, for operation of the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride…
TechPrecision Corporation Receives PO for Advanced Nuclear Reactor Equipment
Source: NewsTechPrecision Corporation, a manufacturer of large-scale, high-precision machined metal fabrications with customers in the alternative energy, medical, nuclear, defense, aerospace and other commercial industries, announced it has received a new purchase order to produce an…
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy CEO Releases Statement on the Nuclear Industry Future Prospects
Source: News“Loan guarantees and other tools that lower the financial barriers to plant construction are investments in the future that will yield dividends for decades to come in the form of economical and reliable low-carbon energy…
Low Enriched Uranium Fuel Bank Established – Viable Option for Countries Who Want to Pursue Nuclear Energy
Source: News“This is a breakthrough in global cooperation to enable peaceful uses of nuclear energy while reducing the risks of proliferation and catastrophic terrorism,” said former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, NTI Co-Chairman. The International Atomic Energy…
DevonWay Inc. Offers New Cyber Security Solution for Nuclear Power Plants
Source: NewsDevonWay, Inc., an enterprise-class SaaS-based solutions provider for the nuclear power industry, announced the general availability of its cyber security offering, CyberWay™. This new product expands DevonWay’s commitment to supplying next-generation enterprise asset management solutions.…
AREVA Delivers Reactor Head to Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station
Source: NewsAREVA announced delivery of a replacement reactor vessel closure head to First Energy Nuclear Operating Company’s (FENOC) Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio. AREVA has manufactured and delivered 18 replacement reactor vessel closure…
Lightbridge and Exelon to Advise Gulf States for Nuclear Power Program Development
Source: NewsLightbridge Corporation, an advanced nuclear fuel designer and provider of nuclear energy consulting services to commercial and governmental organizations, announced that it has entered into a consulting contract with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Member…
Low Enriched Uranium Produced Molybdenum-99 Arrives in US
Source: NewsNNSA and South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) Cooperate to Achieve First-Ever Large-Scale Medical Isotope Production Using Low Enriched Uranium The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the South Africa Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) announced…
B&W-Led Team Wins D&D Contracts at Bettis and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratories
Source: NewsThe Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), through its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Group, Inc. (B&W TSG), is pleased to announce that B&W Shaw Remediation, LLC has been awarded contracts to provide environmental remediation…
AREVA and EDF Reach Agreement on Nuclear Fuel Plant
Source: NewsAREVA and EDF have reached an agreement extending operation of the EURODIF enrichment plant until the end of 2012 and laying down the operating conditions for 2011-2012. EURODIF, which means European Gaseous Diffusion Uranium Enrichment Consortium,…
Fermi 2 Nuclear Power Plant Exits Outage
Source: NewsThe Fermi 2 Nuclear Power Plant returned to service on Sunday when operators synchronized the plant to the Detroit Edison electrical system, following a safe, successful refueling and maintenance outage that began Oct. 24. Besides…
Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant Achieves New Safety Milestone
Source: NewsEmployees and contractors at Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant recently achieved a significant safety milestone that is a site record: 18 months without a DART injury (days away, restricted or transferred). This means in the…
NS Book Review by Randy Brich: THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING BLUNDER: HOW MOTHER NATURE FOOLED THE WORLD’S TOP CLIMATE SCIENTISTS by Roy W. Spencer
Source: NewsPummeled nearly senseless by the popular refrain that manmade carbon dioxide emissions cause catastrophic global warming, I optimistically opened climate researcher Roy W. Spencer’s latest book, The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled…
Concerns with Computer Climate Studies at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Source: NewsA press release from the University of Hawaii at Manoa on November 23, 2010 announced the results of a computer study by UH climatologists which portends greater global warming in the future. Even though this…
AECL Successfully Replaces All Calandria Tubes in Korean CANDU Reactor
Source: News“This success marks the first time a CANDU 6 reactor has had all of the fuel channels removed and replaced,” says Hugh MacDiarmid, AECL’s President and CEO Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) has reached…
Hearings to Begin in Waste Control Specialists LLW Site to Allow Waste from 36 States
Source: News“What we’re excited about is as soon as we get the word from TCEQ, we’re going to start construction,” WCS spokesman Chuck McDonald said. Hearings will begin next week in Austin on proposed rules that…
Christopher Monetta Appointed New President & CEO of GE Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment
Source: NewsGE Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment (GLE), a business venture of GE, Hitachi and Cameco, has appointed Christopher J. Monetta as its new president & CEO, as the company continues developing its next-generation, laser-based uranium enrichment…