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AREVA Earns Recognition from NEI and Customers
Source: NewsAREVA and its customer – Entergy Nuclear’s Palisades Power Station in Michigan – were honored with the “Best of the Best Award” for the innovation of a device, the gimbaled head – By April Murelio…
TVA Issues Bellefonte Supplemental EIS
Source: NewsCompleting a nuclear unit is one option that would help us meet our customers' growing needs and provide a reliable and safe power source at significantly less cost per installed kilowatt than other generation options…
NNSA Awards IT Contracts To Small Businesses
Source: NewsAnnouncement comes as Obama Administration Celebrates National Small Business Week – By Chris Smith – National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced that it has awarded two of NNSA’s most important Information Technology contract orders…
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Appoints Caroline Reda As New President and CEO; Jack Fuller Remains as Chairman of the Board
Source: NewsThe current role of GEH’s Chairman of the Board and President & CEO will be split into two positions, effective July 5. Fuller will remain as Chairman of the Board, and Caroline Reda will become…
Court Continues To Uphold Uranium Resources’ Nuclear Regulatory Commission License in New Mexico
Source: NewsOn March 8, 2010, the Tenth Circuit denied the original petition by several parties opposed to uranium mining for review of URI’s NRC license, which the Commission issued to Hydro Resources, Inc. (HRI), Uranium Resources’…
PAM Manager At Bruce Power – Streamlined Process Will Improve Equipment Reliability
Source: NewsBased on industry best practices, PAM is used by other nuclear plants with great success. Because equipment reliability is one of our four focus areas for 2010, having this tool available at Bruce Power will…
WMG Announces Personnel Addition; H. Michael Anderson and Julie Dewberry join WMG, Inc.
Source: NewsMs Dewberry will serve as our lead package design and licensing engineer and will be tasked with managing our engineering services from our newly opened office in Hanford, Washington – By Stephen Heiser – WMG,…
Westinghouse Names Professor Itumeleng Mosala As Regional Vice President, South Africa
Source: NewsProfessor Mosala will work to maintain and build relationships with key stakeholders in the South African nuclear industry. He brings extensive government, political and academic experience to Westinghouse in South Africa – By Linton Levy…
Senator Voinovich Encourages DOE on Nuclear Loan Guarantess
Source: NewsI would like to congratulate the Department of Energy on issuing the first conditional loan guarantee for front-end nuclear facilities to enhance U.S. capacity to enrich uranium. Enhancing this capacity is critical to the nation's…
Small Nuke Manufacturer NuScale Power Hires Industry Veteran As New Engineering Manager
Source: NewsNuScale Power is developing a modular, scalable nuclear power reactor. A power plant using NuScale’s standard design will produce 540 MWe using 12 of NuScale’s 45 MWe light water modular reactors. The company expects to…
WMG Awarded Major Transportation Oversight Project
Source: NewsPackaging, Characterization for Bruce Power’s 16 CANDU Steam Generators – Edited by Stephen Heiser – Studsvik AB has selected WMG, Inc to perform the characterization, package qualification, and transportation oversight for 16 CANDU Reactor Steam…
AREVA Gets Conditional Commitment For DOE Loan Guarantee For Idaho Enrichment Facility
Source: NewsConstruction of this facility is critical to protecting U.S. energy security by increasing domestic uranium enrichment, a key step in producing electricity from CO2-free nuclear energy. The Eagle Rock plant will use advanced centrifuge technology…
Grand Gulf’s Refueling Marks Beginning Of Historic Upgrade
Source: NewsThe project includes activities for the energy power upgrade, which will make the reactor at Grand Gulf the single most powerful nuclear generating unit in the nation. It will increase Grand Gulf’s output by approximately…
FirstEnergy And Allegheny Energy File Merger Application With West Virginia PSC
Source: NewsThe filing provides additional information related to the merger and the companies’ commitments to support jobs, customers and communities in West Virginia, including agreements to complete and staff the transmission operations center in Fairmont -…
NRC Chairman Jaczko: Keeping Pace While Firmly Grounded
Source: News“Keeping Pace While Firmly Grounded” Prepared Remarks for The Honorable Gregory B. Jaczko Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the NEI’s Nuclear Energy Assembly – Source NRC – Good morning. Thank you for the invitation…
Westinghouse Picks GenSight For Project Portfolio Management
Source: NewsGenSight selected as core technology to support Westinghouse’s Project Portfolio Management capability – By Stephen Heiser – GenSight, a leader in Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software, has been selected by Westinghouse Electric Company as the…
Westinghouse, Curtiss-Wright Flow Control – EMD Continue Successful Testing of World’s Largest Canned-Motor Reactor Coolant Pump
Source: NewsOngoing Testing will Ensure Safe and Reliable Operation in AP1000 – Edited by Linton Levy – Curtiss-Wright Flow Control – EMD and Westinghouse Electric Company LLC announced today that they are continuing the successful testing…
URS-Led Team Gets Contract Extension To Manage the U.S. Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Source: NewsThe contract includes performance goals to accelerate the cleanup of nuclear waste left over from the production of nuclear weapons and related research, including protective clothing, tools and other contaminated material. WIPP is the world’s…
Platts/Capgemini Study Finds Utility Executives Largely Dissatisfied With Obama’s First-Year Performance On Energy
Source: NewsNew Platts/Capgemini Research Also Identifies Regulation, the Environment and Technology as Top Concerns of Industry Executives – Edited by Mark McFadden – A survey of the more than 100 executives within the U.S. and Canadian…
Bentley Publishes May Annual Report
Source: NewsBentley accelerated its AssetWise platform initiative for infrastructure operations through the major acquisitions of Exor, market leader in linear networked assets such as roadways, and eB, market leader in configuration and records management of mission-critical…