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Ups and downs in US budget bill
Source: World Nuclear NewsA year-end spending bill has slashed the yearly budget for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository by $104 million, putting the project schedule in further doubt. It has also increased the amount of new plant loans…
VT Group to buy BNG Project Services
Topics: Industry & BusinessSource: World Nuclear NewsVT Group – a UK defence and support service company – has agreed to acquire the British Nuclear Group Project Services (BNGPS) business from British Nuclear Group (BNG), itself a subsidiary of BNFL. The sale…
Texas establishes Nuclear Power Institute
Source: World Nuclear NewsA Nuclear Power Institute (NPI) is to be established at Texas A&M University to ensure the state has sufficient qualified workers for its growing nuclear power industry. …
Alstom to construct new US turbine plant
Topics: Industry & BusinessSource: World Nuclear NewsFrench engineering group Alstom announced that it will spend over $200 million on constructing a new facility in the USA for the manufacture of steam turbines, gas turbines, generators and related equipment for use in…
Exelon to replace security force at nuclear plants
Source: World Nuclear NewsExelon Nuclear will replace the security force provided by Wackenhut Nuclear Services with its own in-house team. In September it was reported that Wackenhut guards were found sleeping whilst on duty. …
Russia delivers nuclear fuel to Iranian reactor
Topics: Fuel & WasteSource: World Nuclear NewsOn 16 December, Russia delivered the first shipment of fuel for the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which it is helping to construct in Iran. …
Climate talks under a cloud
Source: World Nuclear NewsClimate talks in Bali, Indonesia continued past their scheduled end as ministers attempted to reach agreement. Indonesian ministers said nuclear power was to be part of their country's answer to climate change. …
$1.2 billion home for Russian nuclear
Topics: Industry & BusinessSource: World Nuclear News[Nuclear.Ru, 12 December] Plans have been revealed for a new office complex in Moscow that will become the new home for Russia's nuclear energy industry. A presentation on the new complex was hosted by the…
Duke files COL application for Lee plant
Source: World Nuclear NewsDuke Energy has submitted a combined construction and operation licence application with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the proposed new William States Lee III plant in Cherokee County, South Carolina. …
IBM defines knowledge management aims
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe IBM Nuclear Power Advisory Council held its inaugural meeting last week, emerging with a list of 'top nuclear power industry imperatives'. The meeting was held at the company's Global Center of Excellence for Nuclear…
Exelon contracts at both ends of reactor life
Source: World Nuclear NewsExelon Nuclear has signed a contract which should see decommissioning of its shut-down Zion power station completed a decade early. It has also signed a major order for heavy forgings and components for two new…
Would-be reactor builders busy in USA
Topics: New ReactorsSource: World Nuclear NewsPlans for potential new nuclear power sites in Idaho and South Carolina are moving forward with the companies involved – nuclear newcomer Alternate Energy Holdings and the long-established Duke Energy – making announcements on pre-construction…
Total must enter nuclear, says CEO
Topics: Industry & BusinessSource: World Nuclear News[Les Echos, 12 December] Christophe de Margerie, CEO of French oil giant Total, said in an interview with business newspaper Les Echos that he expects the company to expand its activities and to enter the…
Grants for carbon-fibre composites research
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe US Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded a grant to a researcher from Clemson University to study the use of carbon fibres to enhance the safety of nuclear power reactors. …
Isotope producer is to restart amid controversy
Source: World Nuclear NewsIn an extraordinary sequence of events the Canadian parliament has overruled the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and ordered the early restart of the NRU reactor at Chalk River, which supplies much of the world's…
FPL gets PSC approval for uprates
Source: World Nuclear News[South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 10 December] Florida Power & Light's (FPL's) plan to uprate its four existing reactors (two pressurized water reactors each at Turkey Point and St Lucie) has been approved by the Florida Public…
Life extensions for troubled British plants
Source: World Nuclear NewsHinkley Point B and Hunterston B nuclear power plants are set to operate until 2016, British Energy has announced. Another five-year extension beyond that is also a possibility, despite operational difficulties. …
Mayor: Manitoba should consider nuclear
Source: World Nuclear News[CBC News, 10 December] A local mayor has called for the Canadian province of Manitoba to consider building a nuclear power plant, and has set up a working group to develop a proposal to bring…
South Korea joins GNEP
Topics: Policy & RegulationSource: World Nuclear NewsSouth Korea became the 19th member of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) after the Ministry of Science and Industry signed the Statement of Principles on 10 December. …
Europe approves of Belene plan
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe European Commission has issued a 'favourable opinion' of financial arrangements to build two new nuclear reactors at Belene, in Bulgaria. The country's National Electricity Company may now finalise financial arrangements for the project, which…