IN OTHER NEWS:
| • | The US Nuclear Fuel Working Group
has today published its Restoring America's Competitive
Nuclear Advantage, in which it recommends taking "immediate and bold
action" to strengthen the domestic uranium mining and conversion industries and
"restore the viability" of the entire front-end of the nuclear fuel cycle. The
NFWG was established by Presidential Memorandum last July to undertake a fuller
analysis of national security considerations with respect to the entire nuclear fuel supply chain. |
| • | Six trucks carrying electrical
equipment produced in Russia for the Iter fusion reactor have arrived at the construction
site at Cadarache in the south of France, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom
announced today. The equipment - designed and manufactured by Rosatom subsidiary
JSC NIIEFA - includes busbars for the coils of the poloidal field, a central solenoid,
correcting coils, as well as supports for mounting busbars, beams, resistors and
auxiliary equipment. Three more trucks left St Petersburg on 21 April, with another
scheduled to leave on 27 April. |
| • | Tom Samson, the former CEO of NuGeneration Ltd and
most recently the founder and CEO of Guardian Power, has been appointed interim
CEO of the UK consortium of companies developing a small modular reactor power
plant. The current programme director, David Orr, retires at the end of this month.
The consortium comprises Assystem, Atkins, BAM Nuttall, Jacobs, Laing O'Rourke,
National Nuclear Laboratory, Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rolls-Royce and TWI. |
| • | Bill Johnson is to retire as president and CEO of PG&E Corporation on 30 June, by which date the company expects its plan of reorganisation will have been confirmed by the US Bankruptcy Court, PG&E has announced. The company filed for reorganisation under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code in January 2019. William Smith will serve as Interim CEO until a new CEO is appointed. |
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