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A 5.9-magnitude earthquake rocked Iran Thursday morning, but the nearby Bushehr Nuclear Power plant stood its ground, reports from the country's state-run television news program said.(read more)

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry in a trip to India this week said that Westinghouse Electric Company was preparing to emerge from bankruptcy and that its financial restructuring would not interfere with the company's ability to supply support and service for six future reactors in India.(read more)

Israeli-American radiation shielding company StemRad said Wednesday that the last test flight around the moon prior to NASA's first manned deep space missions would include the launching of the company's AstroRad radiation protection vests.(read more)

Nuclear service company NRG, based in the Netherlands, said that beginning this year it would initiate a collaboration with Swedish company LeadCold on a multi-year arrangement to help develop the SEALER small modular lead cooled reactor that is under development for deployment in remote arctic regions. (read more)

The U.S. Department of Energy confirmed an emergency incident at the Idaho National Laboratory site on Wednesday April 11 that involved a ruptured 55-gallon barrel of radioactive waste, which brought rescue personnel to the scene, but ultimately did not pose any risk to the public.(read more)

Legislators in New Jersey have sent a nuclear power rescue bill to Gov. Phil Murphy after votes in the state Senate and Assembly on Friday moved the bill forward.(read more)

The Office for Nuclear Regulation in Britain said that AWE pic, which operates the country's Atomic Weapons Establishment program had met the standards set out in two Improvement Notices sent to the company in February 2017.(read more)

A research firm, The Brattle Group, said Monday that closing four nuclear power plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania would have “severe environmental and economic impacts,” naming plants owned and operated by FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company and Exelon Generation that are on the chopping block due to market forces that have made them unprofitable.(read more)

British Minister Stuart Andrew, a Conservative Party politician from Wales, is visiting a potential Small Modular Reactor development site in Trawsfynydd this week to voice support for the next generation of nuclear power, which is envisioned as including small, factory-built reactors.(read more)

The Nuclear Safety and Security Commission in South Korea has granted approval for the restart of the Kori 4 reactor after a coolant leak shut the unit down in March of 2017.(read more)

China General Nuclear said that it has begun to load fuel into the reactor core at the Taishan nuclear power plant, which keeps the first unit at the new plant on track to become the first operating European Pressurized Reactor which the company expects will occur later this year.(read more)

From the United States to Uganda, the issue of storage of radioactive waste surfaced this week, focused on proposals for storage sites in Southeastern, New Mexico, and Mukono, Uganda.(read more)

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) announced Tuesday that the Reactor Containment Building dome for Unit 4 at the yet-to-go-commercial Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant had been successfully set in place, marking another milestone for the country's first commercial nuclear power project.(read more)

The United Arab Emirates has opened its first dosimetry laboratory that combines the efforts of the country's Khalifa University and its nuclear power regulator the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulations (FANR).(read more)

Rolls-Royce said Friday it had signed a contract to update rod control system equipment in 14 of Chine General Nuclear’s CPR1000 nuclear power units in China.(read more)

Radiation contamination involving 42 workers at the Hanford cleanup site near Richland, Washington, about 200 miles southeast of Seattle, has halted demolition of a plutonium processing plant, the Department of Energy has confirmed.(read more)

A month after the Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) in New Jersey said it would cancel capital projects at the Salem nuclear power plant in southern N.J. due to an unprofitable market environment for nuclear power, state lawmakers advanced a nuclear power assistance bill through two state committees that would provide $300 per year in taxpayer assistance for nuclear power in the state.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday that it had issued licenses allowing Florida Power and Light to proceed with construction and operation of two AP1000 reactors at the Turkey Point nuclear generating station 25 miles south of Miami.(read more)

Leaders from Russia and Turkey marked the symbolic first pour of concrete for the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant's Unit 1 on Tuesday, hooking up video-link with the formal ceremony taking place in Ankara, Turkey. (read more)

An independent research group, Grand View Research, reported Wednesday that the global nuclear decommissioning services market size is expected to be valued at USD 8.90 billion by 2025, exhibiting 6.8 percent CARG during the forecast period.(read more)

The temporarily closed Unit 2 at the Ikata nuclear power plant in Enhime Prefecture in Japan will not be outfitted for a restart and will undergo decommissioning, the Shikoku Electric Power Company said in late March.(read more)

One loose bolt inside a fuel storage canister at Southern California Edison's San Onofre nuclear station near San Clemente, Calif., prompted a work stoppage that lasted 10 days, according to Nuclear Engineering International.(read more)

FirstEnergy Solutions, parent of First Energy Nuclear Operating Company, filed for bankruptcy protection on March 31 and noted that it intended to close three nuclear power plants along with its restructuring plan.(read more)

Georgia Power this week released a time lapse video of progress at the Plant Vogtle expansion project near Waynesboro, Georgia, the only remaining nuclear power plant build occurring in the United States.(read more)

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Pre-Operational Safety Review Team (Pre-OSART) has concluded an 18-day mission to review preparedness at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in Finland in expectations of the initial start up for Unit 3, which is expected to take place in December.(read more)

Georgia Power announced today the placement of the nuclear reactor vessel inside Unit 4 containment at the Vogtle nuclear expansion project near Waynesboro, Georgia.(read more)

A visit to the United Arab Emirates by South Korea's President Moon Jae-in included a ceremony celebrating the completion of the country's first nuclear power reactor, Barakah Unit 1, although start up of the reactor is currently on hold.(read more)

Centrus Energy Corp. said Wednesday it had signed a services contract with X Energy to support the design of a facility to produce advanced nuclear fuel, a contract that builds upon a memorandum of understanding the companies signed in September 2017 to collaborate toward production of fuel for advanced nuclear reactors.(read more)

Work to complete decommissioning of the Army's remote nuclear power plant in Alaska has resumed after a long-term hiatus, officials said.(read more)

The Kyushu Electric Power Company in Japan restarted its Genkai Unit 3 reactor late last week, making it the seventh reactor to resume operations since the nationwide moratorium was imposed on nuclear power following the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Generating Station.(read more)

Britain's Office for Nuclear regulation said that findings from the themed inspection of the Hinkley Point C nuclear build in Somerset showed five key supply chain areas where improvements could be made, but noted that “good progress had been made with improvements of some areas of supply chain management.”(read more)

China General Nuclear said that installation of the reactor pressure vessel for Unit 5 at the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in Liaoning Province had begun. According to CGN, the component arrived at the plant on 20 March and installation began soon after.(read more)

The British government suffered a setback in its plans to leave the Euratom agreement that governs euro block countries in matters of nuclear power and radioactive material safety and security, as the House of Lords voted last week to demand the government maintain a presence in the agreement until new agreements are in force.(read more)

The China Nuclear Industry Construction Company announced a structural milestone at the Fuqing Unit 6 reactor under construction in Fujian Province, China, announcing the placement of a 340 ton steel dome hoisted into place.(read more)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Thursday that it had made available the first-ever "subsequent license renewal application," which came from Florida Power and Light and applies to the company's Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station's Units 3 and 4.(read more)

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.(read more)

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.(read more)

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 billion investment in its Chalk River facilities.(read more)

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.(read more)

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.(read more)

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.(read more)

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts today completed a nuclear security advisory mission in Ecuador. The mission was carried out at the request of the Government of Ecuador.(read more)

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.(read more)

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.(read more)

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.(read more)

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.(read more)

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.(read more)

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.(read more)

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.(read more)

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.(read more)