Rosatom, Turkey, Indicate Akkuyu Project Still On
Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom said Wednesday that the withdrawal of an investor group from the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant project would not derail construction of the envisioned 4,800-MW, four-reactor facility that would be the country's inaugural nuclear power plant.-
- Wed, Mar 21 2018
Georgia OKs Dominion, SCANA Merger
The Georgia Public Service Commission has unanimously approved the merger of Dominion Energy, Inc., and SCANA Corporation, becoming the first state regulatory agency to act on the proposed combination that has already been approved by the Federal Trade Commission. -
- Tue, Mar 20 2018
RFP Issued For $370M Chalk River Research Center
Canada's nuclear science and technology organization Canadian National Laboratories has announced the issuance of a Request For Proposals (RFP) for the design and construction of its Advanced Nuclear Materials Research Center (ANMRC), a $370 million research center that will serve as the "backbone" of a $1.2 billioninvestment in its Chalk River facilities. -
- Tue, Mar 20 2018
Fessenheim Unit 2 Cleared for Restart
French nuclear power regulator Autorite Surete Nucleaire (ASN) has cleared the restart of Unit 2 of the Fessenheim power plant in the Alsace region close the border with Germany. -
- Mon, Mar 19 2018
Court Rejects Attempt To Block Ohma Construction
A lawsuit intended to block construction of 1,383 MW mixed-oxide at the Ohma nuclear power plant in Japan has been rejected by a district court in Hokkaido prefecture. -
- Mon, Mar 19 2018
Waste Control Specialists, Orano USA To Join Forces
Orano USA and Waste Control Specialists, leaders in nuclear materials management, said they intended to form a joint venture to license a consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) for used nuclear fuel at the WCS site in Andrews County, Texas. -
- Mon, Mar 19 2018
IAEA Completes Security Review In Ecuador
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts today completed a nuclearsecurity advisory mission in Ecuador. The mission was carried out at the request of the Government of Ecuador. -
- Fri, Mar 16 2018
Decommissioning In Arkansas Runs Out Of Funds
Decommissioning work of the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR) near Fayetteville, Ark., will be discontinued at the end of March due to a lack of funds, according to the reactor's owner, which is the University of Arkansas (UA), Fayetteville. -
- Fri, Mar 16 2018
Westinghouse Completes Decommissioning Project At Barseback NPP
Westinghouse Electric Company announced Friday that it has completed a major decommissioning project at the former two-boiling water reactor Barsebäck nuclear power plant in Skane, Sweden, about 20 kilometers from the Danish capital of Copenhagen. -
- Thu, Mar 15 2018
Journey Begins Soon For Floating NPP
Russia's first ship-based nuclear power plant will set sail in late April from its St. Petersburg mooring on its way to Murmansk, a near-coastal port off of the Barents Sea, where it will be loaded with fuel, according to a report from Russian media outlet Tass. -
- Wed, Mar 14 2018
Beznau Unit 1 Cleared For Restart
The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) has cleared the Beznau power plant's Unit 1 reactor for a restart after utility company Axpo proved that aluminum oxide inclusions discovered in the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) did not sacrifice safety. -
- Wed, Mar 14 2018
NRC Issues Entergy Confirmatory Order
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday they had issued a Confirmatory Order to Entergy Nuclear Operations and Entergy Operations, Inc., to prevent what the agency called willful misconduct in a case that centers on documented disregard for safety protocols at the Grand Gulf nuclear power plant in Port Gibson, Miss. -
- Tue, Mar 13 2018
Leningrad II Unit 1 Synchronized To Grid
Calling it a “remarkable event,” Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, said Tuesday that the Leningrad Phase II Unit 1 on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland had been synchronized to the national grid and started delivering its first kilowatt hours with all equipment soundly operating. -
- Tue, Mar 13 2018
Siempelkamp Announces Chemical Decontamination System
German nuclear development company Siempelkamp NIS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH said it had developed a chemical additive for nuclear power plant cooling systems that works by detaching radioactive contamination adhering to the inner system surfaces with the help of ion exchangers. -
- Mon, Mar 12 2018
Taiwanese Regulator OKs Kuosheng 2 Restart
The Taiwanese nuclear power regulator, the Atomic Energy Council, has approved the restart of the 951 MWe Kuosheng 2 reactor that has been idled since a fire in May 2016, putting the final decision in the bureaucratic process with the parliament. -
- Mon, Mar 12 2018
Westinghouse Poised For Fuel Diversifying In Europe
Westinghouse Electric Company and its eight European consortium partners today announced the successful completion of an EU funded project targeted at diversifying the nuclear fuel supply to VVER-440 reactors in Europe. -
- Mon, Mar 12 2018
BWXT Nuclear Extends Fuel Agreement With OPG
BWX Technologies, Inc. said Monday that its subsidiary BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada Inc. had signed a $168 million, five-year contract extension to manufacture fuel for Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) Darlington and Pickering nuclear generating stations. The deal extends BWXT NEC’s current fuel manufacturing arrangement with OPG to the end of 2023. -
- Fri, Mar 9 2018
Panel Calls Attention To Fukushima Ice Wall Failings
A government panel in Japan has weighed in on the underground ice wall that forms a 1-mile perimeter surrounding the destroyed Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors and buildings, calling the wall's ability to stop water from seeping into the area only partly successful. -
- Fri, Mar 9 2018
Georgia Power Touts 13-Hour Concrete Pour
Georgia Power on Thursday announced the latest construction milestone at the Vogtle nuclear expansion near Waynesboro, Georgia, calling attention to a 13-plus hour continuous concrete placement for the Unit 4 "turbine tabletop." -
- Wed, Mar 7 2018
NRC Moving Forward On Interim Storage Licencing
A review of Hotec International’s proposed interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, slated for New Mexico, could be completed by mid-summer of 2020, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said -
- Wed, Mar 7 2018
Plant Hatch Reloaded With First Of Kind Fuel Assemblies
Operators at the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant in Alabama on Sunday safely returned Unit 1 to service following a planned refueling and maintenance outage that began Feb. 4 at 9:28 p.m., local time. The novelty of the occasion, however, involved the fuel used for the restart. In collaboration with Global Nuclear Fuel, Southern Nuclear said in a press statement, Plant Hatch installed accident tolerant fuel test assemblies... -
- Tue, Mar 6 2018
Vermont Yankee Sale Would Accelerate Decommissioning
The sale of the shuttered Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vt., could result in an accelerated schedule for decommissioning for the 620-MW plant that shut down at the end of 2014 after 42 years of operations. -
- Tue, Mar 6 2018
NRC Mails 99 Assessment Letters To 99 Plants
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission mailed 99 assessments to 99 operating nuclear power plants this week summing up their safety and security performances for 2017. -
- Mon, Mar 5 2018
IAEA Agreement Extends Research To Students In Africa
Countries without a nuclear reactor are accessing research reactors through the power of the internet and a new agreement signed in Vienna will allow students from Kenya, Tanzania, Tunisia and South Africa togain access to the research reactor in Morocco, despite the lack of a reactor of their own, the International Atomic Energy Agency said. -
- Mon, Mar 5 2018
Exelon, PSEG To Cease Capital Projects At Salem NPP
The Public Services Enterprise Group and Exelon, owners of the Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey, filed notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday that gives notice to the state that capital investment in the two-reactor plant will cease without a guarantee of financial assistance from taxpayers.
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