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Engineering firms Balfour Beatty Bailey, Cavendish Nuclear and Doosan Babcock said Thursday they had formed a partnership, officially called MEH Joint Venture, to deliver the erection sequence for the two-reactor Hinkley Point C project.(read more)

The co-owners of the two-reactor Plant Vogtle expansion project in Waynesboro, Georgia, have arrived at a joint agreement meant to put the brakes on cost increases or shift more of the burden onto principal owner Georgia Power if costs continue to soar.(read more)

On September 20, Framatome and the China National Nuclear Corporation, through their joint venture CAST, has delivered on time and on scheduled, the first batch of fuel cladding tubes for Fuqing nuclear power plant unit 5 “Hualong-1”, the companies said.(read more)

While delays have pushed back the expected start date for the Olkiluoto 3 reactor in Finland to 2019, the two predecessors at the power plant, Olkiluoto 1 and 2, have been granted license extensions that will allow them to operate until 2038, the plant’s operator has said.(read more)

Framatome said Tuesday it had signed a contract with Talen Energy’s Susquehanna Nuclear, LLC, to supply its advanced ATRIUM 11 fuel design.(read more)

Next generation reactor developer NuScale Power said Tuesday that it had chosen Virginia-based BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT) to start the engineering work to manufacture the company's NuScale’s small modular reactor (SMR) after a rigorous selection process that included interest from 83 companies from 10 different countries.(read more)

Oglethorpe Power, a 30 percent stakeholder in the Plant Vogtle two-reactor expansion project said Monday that its board of directors had approved of completion of the project under a conditional vote that included several cost control options designed to cap costs that continue to rise.(read more)

Belgian nuclear power regulator FANC (Federal Agency for Nuclear Control) said power plant operator ENGIE Electrabel had inspected Doel 4 and Tighange 2 reactors and conformed concrete aging problems in both of the buildings that house secondary emergency response systems for the two units.(read more)

Russian nuclear construction giant Rosatom said Monday that the state-owned corporation’s engineering division Atomstroyexport Group has completed initial earthworks phase associated with the reactor building for the Bushehr –2 nuclear reactor in Iran. The work was completed ahead of schedule, Rosatom said.(read more)

French nuclear power supply and engineering contractor Framatome, formerly Areva, said Thursday it would be upgrading the Instrumentation & Control (I&C) system on EDF's 900 MWe reactor fleet in France, a service contract that involves upgrades at 32 reactors.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Monday that it had renewed the operating licence for the Indian Point nuclear power plant Units 2 and 3, located in Buchanan, New York, for operations through April 30, 2024 (for Unit 2) and April 30, 2025 (for Unit 3), respectively.(read more)

The British government on Tuesday announced the third funding tranche coming from a $236.6 million nuclear power research and development fund, awarding $4.7 million to a partnership involving Rolls-Royce, The National Nuclear Laboratory, Jacobsen Analytics and two universities.(read more)

In a public conference taking place in Vienna concurrent with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 62nd General Conference, Agneta Rising, the head of the World Nuclear Association, challenged the United Nations and the nuclear power industry to counter the threat of climate change with nuclear power.(read more)

The board of directors of the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), owners of the retired Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Nebraska have investigated the option of moving decommissioning to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission designated Decon approach, foregoing the Safstor option it had previously indicated would be the approach to take.(read more)

The oldest nuclear power plant in the United States, the Oyster Creek Generating Station , nine miles south of Toms River, New Jersey, was taken offline Monday for the final time, making it the seventh nuclear plant to close in the past five years.(read more)

French nuclear giant Orano --- formerly Areva – said it had launched its $1.33 billion uranium conversion plant at the Tricastin site in Drome, France, with a ceremony involving 60 international customers and representatives of French and European Union administrations.(read more)

U.S.-based Centrus Energy Corp., a nuclear fuel-supply and engineering company, said Monday that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Korean conglomerate Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction to work towards development of the “next generation of commercial nuclear reactors.(read more)

Lawsuits filed in Florida and Georgia Wednesday could make or break the Plant Vogtle expansion project where costs were recently estimated to have gone up significantly.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Thursday it would be out in force reviewing safety and security protocols required by several nuclear power plants to prepare themselves for and withstand the blunt force of a powerful hurricane headed towards the southeast coast of the United States.(read more)

A storm with 135 mph winds – Hurricane Florence – is potentially threatening as many as sixteen of the nation’s nuclear power plants that sit in its path, according to media reports.(read more)

Nuclear engineering and project management concern Nuvia, based in Britain, said it had been awarded a contract to design, supply, integrate and commission plant and equipment for the Dungeness Waste Transfer Area Facility (WTA).(read more)

The Bolivian Republic of Venezuela (Venezuela) and the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency have signed a framework accord that covers technical cooperation for the pursuit of nuclear power projects for the years 2018 and 2025.(read more)

China National Nuclear Corporation said last week that it had reached a construction milestone at the Karachi nuclear power plant in Pakistan, where workers installed the plant's Unit 3 pressure vessel on Sept. 5. It was the fourth major component lifted into place in the past three weeks.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday that it had approved an indirect transfer of the South Carolina Electric and Gas Company's two-thirds interest in the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Units 1,2, and 3, and the ISFSI – the independent spent fuel storage installation.(read more)

The International Atomic Energy Agency said it had complete a infrastructure review for the Republic of Sudan, a nation of 40 million persons that is interested in a domestic nuclear power program for civil purposes.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it would resume a review for an consolidated interim spent fuel storage facility in Andrews County, Texas, on behalf of Interim Storage Partners.(read more)

Testing at the Novovoronezh II NPP's Unit 2 has moved from cold testing to hot tests, state-controled Rosatom announced.(read more)

The primary contractor for the world's first plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel (MOX) reactor for commercial purposes said Wednesday that it expected a further delay of two years before the facility's first reactor, Ohma Unit 1, would be up and running.(read more)

The welding for the basket and high pressure chamber for the sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor under construction at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Russia has been completed, according to a late August announcement from Russia's nuclear power engineering and component developer AEM-Technology.(read more)

Nuclear power could contribute significantly to the nation's goals of a low-carbon energy future, but higher costs are undermining that possibility, a report released this week by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said.(read more)

Georgia Power has announced the latest construction milestone at the Vogtle nuclear expansion near Waynesboro, Georgia, the placement of the third of four steam generators, this one installed into the Unit 4 nuclear island.(read more)

--Press Release--Keith Wing will transition from the role of President and CEO of KeySource Thomas Thor, the global executive search division of Thomas Thor Associates, on August 31st 2018. (read more)

The Korea Herald said Wednesday that a consortium comprised of Daewoo Engineering & Construction and Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction was chosen for partner with Korea Hydro And Nuclear Power to pursue bids for nuclear power projects anticipated for the Czech Republic and Poland.(read more)

Russian nuclear power construction and engineering giant Rosatom said that the first fuel assembly was loaded into the core of Tianwan NPP Unit 4 in China on August 25.. (read more)

In a preliminary response to the Tennessee Valley Authority's early site permit application concerning a small nuclear reactor facility at Clinch River, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that safety mandates could be developed based on scalable system, meaning it would not have to conform with standard-sized emergency planning zones currently mandated for large-scale commercial nuclear power plants.(read more)

Cavandish Nuclear said it was testing a new system for mapping radioactive hotspots in a decommissioning project with technology that “promises to transform the decommissioning of redundant nuclear plant.” the company said.(read more)

A third Westinghouse Electric Company designed AP1000 reactor in China is now supplying power to the grid, the China National Nuclear Corporation along with partner State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation announced on Friday.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it would send team to the San Onore Nuclear Generatng Station to review an incident that came to light on August 13, after a spent fuel storage canister became stuck while being lowered into an underground storage vault.(read more)

Local media near Bradwell, site of the future Bradwell B Nuclear Power Plant of Chinese design, are reporting that the region is already feeling associated economic benefits through work involving preliminary site study work concerning joint French and Chinese project.(read more)

The Trump administration's Affordable Clean Energy plan (ACE) designates steps for states to manage performances of power plants with customized on-site targets, a boon to coal-fired power plants. Does this open the door assistance for the struggling nuclear power industry or has the Trump administration effectively thrown nuclear power under the bus?(read more)

Engineering and construction giant Bechtel said Thursday that it had been selected as the project manager by Horizon Nuclear Power for the two-reactor project slated for Wales in the United Kingdom.(read more)

Russia's Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Georgy Kalamanov disclosed this week that Egypt had hired Russian contractors to construct a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel. The contract includes construction of containers for the spent fuel, as well, Egyptian media reported.(read more)

Reston, Virginia-based Lightbridge Corporation said last week that officials of the joint venture Enfission LLC had met with officials from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the first time to discuss the development and regulatory licensing of Lightbridge Fuel for the U.S. market.(read more)

Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom said Monday that installation of the “core catcher” designed as part of the passive safety systems for the VVER-1200 reactor had commenced at the construction site of the Roopur Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh.(read more)

GSE Systems of Columbia, Maryland, said it had been awarded two contracts to update power plant simulators at two separate nuclear facilities. The contracts, the company said, are valued at approximately $8 million.(read more)

A critical vote in September by the board members at Oglethorpe Power, owners of 30 percent of the Plant Vogtle expansion project in Georgia, could decide the fate of the project, where Georgia Power recently...(read more)

Ohio-based FirstEnergy Solutions said Wednesday that it had submitted plans with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission detailing how it would train its staff to begin decommissioning at three of its nuclear power plants – the David-Besse and Perry plants in Ohio and the Beaver Valley Power Station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania.(read more)

Electricity generated by nuclear power increased in 2017, notching a gain in production for the fifth consecutive year, the World Nuclear Performance Report 2018 declares. The annual assessment of the nuclear industry worldwide is produced by the World Nuclear Association.(read more)

With local government approvals in hand, the Chugoku Electric Company in Japan has sent in its application to the Nuclear Regulation Authority for inspections that would allow the start of the Shimane Unit 3 reactor, putting it on track to be the first new reactor to start up in the county since the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident.(read more)

Britain's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has awarded a three-year contract to National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and Wood to carry out a key research project on fuels for advanced nuclear reactors.(read more)