Plant Operations
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EPRI and INL release strategy plan for LWR R&D
Source: World Nuclear NewsA research and development plan recommending two strategies that would allow nuclear energy to play a substantial role in meeting future US energy needs has been…
Record performance by US nuclear power industry in 2007
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: World Nuclear NewsThe USA's nuclear power plants generated a record amount of electricity in 2007 while operating at record capacity factors, according to preliminary data from the Nuclear…
NRU upgrades now complete
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe safety upgrade program at the heart of Canada's recent isotope crisis has now been completed. Two coolant pumps are now fully connected to a new…
American reactors upping capacity, lengthening life
Source: World Nuclear NewsImprovements to the US reactor fleet have continued with approvals for power uprates at three nuclear units. Regulators have received a new application for reactor licence…
Power crisis hits South Africa
Source: World Nuclear NewsTop executives from Eskom were called to explain the causes of blackouts to South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki. Supply problems spilled over to Botswana, Zambia and…
British Energy expects AGRs to restart later this year
Source: World Nuclear NewsFollowing investigations into an issue with corrosion of wire windings of boiler closure units at four of its Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors, British Energy said that all…
Monju to return in 2008 with new plutonium core
Source: World Nuclear NewsJapan's Monju fast breeder reactor should return to service this year, with fresh plutonium fuel replacing its initial core load. …
Bruce refurb and uprate project progresses
Topics: Plant OperationsSource: World Nuclear NewsBruce Power has progressed on its refurbishment and uprate projects. All the replacement steam generators have now been delivered for units 1 and 2, while three…
Crack at Davis-Besse "non-emergency"
Source: World Nuclear NewsA leak too small to measure, discovered during a scheduled outage at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant, has been classed as a "non-emergency". …
Canadian isotope production restarts
Source: World Nuclear NewsCanada's National Research Universal reactor (NRU) returned to service in the early hours of 16 December, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) has confirmed. The removal…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Canadian reactor outage hits nuclear medicine supply
Source: World Nuclear NewsOperator Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) has announced an extension of an outage at a Canadian research reactor used to produce radioisotopes for nuclear medicine.…
Korean reactor gets 10-year life extension
Source: World Nuclear News[Korea.net, 6 December] Kori-1, South Korea's first commercial nuclear power reactor, has been given permission by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) to continue operating…
B&W to supply Davis-Besse steam generators
Source: World Nuclear NewsBabcock & Wilcox announced on 5 December that it had been awarded a contract by FirstEnergy for the design, fabrication and delivery of two replacement steam…
Armenia to shut Metsamor, join Angarsk
Source: World Nuclear News[Associated Press, RIA Novosti, 29 November] The Armenian government has approved the closure of the country's sole nuclear power plant. No date has been given when…
Swedish units still have up to 38 years life
Source: World Nuclear News[The Local, 27 November] The Swedish Energy Agency has estimated that the country's nuclear power reactors have an average life span of 60 years, so the…
BE finds another damaged wire at an AGR
Source: World Nuclear NewsAs investigations continue into the condition of wire windings in the boiler closure units (BCUs) of some of British Energy's (BE's) Advanced Gas Reactors (AGRs), the…