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With the first unit of the four-reactor Barakah nuclear power plant completed, the United Arab Emirates nuclear regulator, the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), said Tuesday that the plant operator was still not ready to receive an operating license.(read more)

Placement of the Unit 3 pressurizer in January is one of the highlights of the latest quarterly "timeline" video released by Georgia Power this week.(read more)

Three nuclear power plants are headed for an early shut down due to financial concerns, said FirstEnergy on Friday, calling attention to the plight of the Davis-Besse plant near Toledo, Ohio, the Perry plant near Cleveland and the Beaver Valley plant close to Pittsburgh, Pa.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company said Monday that it has signed a nuclear fuel contract extension with Ukraine’s State Enterprise National Nuclear Energy Generation Company (SE NNEGC) Energoatom.Westinghouse logo two(read more)

Small modular nuclear reactors could be “crucial” in the Britain's pursuit of an energy strategy that will need to provide “previously unthinkable levels of new low carbon electric capacity,” said the think tank Policy Exchange in a report issued this week.(read more)

Connecticut's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) in a draft report has recommended the state allow the Millstone Nuclear Power Station to be declared a clean energy source that would put it in the same market category as wind, solar and hydroelectric power sources.(read more)

Russia and Argentina signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning uranium exploration and mining that the South American country said it hoped would put it on a path towards “self-sufficiency in uranium.” (read more)

Construction of a long-term repository for nuclear waste in Sweden requires more study, the country's Land and Environmental court said Tuesday.(read more)

New Areva – the mining and nuclear fuel company left over from Areva's restructuring process after the company was beset by losses – said Tuesday that several symbolic changes were in order, including giving itself a new name, a new logo and moving out of its expensive headquarters in Paris.(read more)

Georgia Power’s Vogtle nuclear expansion project achieved a major milestone on Jan. 22 with the placement of the Unit 3 pressurizer, which will provide pressure control inside the reactor coolant system once the unit begins operating. The company provided a video clip.(read more)

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) of Canada said they had completed drilling its first borehole near Ignace in western Ontario for the purpose of studying the area for future construction of a nuclear waste repository.(read more)

The race for developing a viable small modular reactor is on, but the first community to have a small reactor installed may not be in Idaho or Canada, after all. It might actually be on the planet Mars.(read more)

The Tokyo Electric Power Company said Friday that a prove outfitted with a camera, a lamp, heat sensors and a dosimeter has returned images of fuel deposits at the bottom of Unit 2 at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Generating Station, marking the second unit at the damaged plant in which melted fuel has been found.(read more)

The fourth and final 330-metric ton steam generator has been hoisted into place in Unit 2 of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant under construction near Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast, a region in the northwestern part of the country.(read more)

Two major U.S. uranium producers, Ur-Energy and Energy Fuels Inc., have filed a petition with the Department of Commerce calling for a cap on imports that would preserve 25 percent of the domestic market for U.S. companies.(read more)

Japan has tacitly agreed to continue with an accord between itself and the United States that permits the country to continue processing spent nuclear fuel and enriched uranium, Japanese media noted Wednesday.(read more)

EDF Energy Chief Executive Officer Simone Rossi said Tuesday that the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant is expected to come on line in 2032 with above ground construction expected to start in June 2019...(read more)

A report cited by the Bloomberg business news agency said that Saudi Arabia intended to award nuclear power plant related contracts by the end of this year. Preliminary selection of a prime contractor is expected by April, according the story's source.(read more)

The top mining organization in Australia has once again asked the government to consider ending its ban on nuclear power in the country, which it says would provide a reliable, zero-carbon emissions energy source with proven technology.(read more)

Russian scientists at the National Nuclear Research University, funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in conjunction with Tsinghua University's department of engineering physicists in Beijing, said they have developed a cost-effective modified molybdenum material that could be used to replace zirconium alloys currently used for nuclear fuel-element casings.(read more)

California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Thursday approved the closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, closing Unit 1 by 2024 and Unit 2 by 2025, citing specifically the changing economic landscape that puts nuclear power at a disadvantage compared with other energy generation systems.(read more)

Russia's state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom said that Unit 1 of the the Leningrad Phase II construction project is being prepared for first criticality after the completion of the construction phase of the reactor vessel at the plant in western Russia.(read more)

EDF has completed the cold functional test phase for the Flamanville EPR, ending a test phase that started on Dec. 18, the company said.(read more)

Preparations are underway for plant hot functional testing for Unit 2 at the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant construction project in the United Arab Emirates, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation announced this week. (read more)

Within two months, crews at the Fuquing nuclear power plant in the Fujian province of China have installed all three of Unit 5's steam generators, the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said on Monday.(read more)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has concluded that application of NuScale Power’s safety design approach related to its small modular reactor (SMR) eliminates the need for class 1E power, which is the regulatory standard set for the design of safety-related nuclear power plant electrical systems.(read more)

New AREVA and its Chinese partner China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said Tuesday they had signed an accord for the Chinese commercial used fuel treatment and recycling plant project that reaffirms their commitment to complete the negotiations of the contract for the project launch in 2018.(read more)

In fighting in the New Jersey capital and bad timing, given the turnover in the governor's mansion in the state, could derail and effort to provide Public Service Electric and Gas with $320 million per year in rate hikes that the company – the largest energy company in the state – says it needs to keep its two nuclear power facilities operating beyond two more years, according to news reports.(read more)

Investment group Brookfield Business Partners L.P. said Thursday it had entered into an agreement to purchase 100 percent of Westinghouse Electric Company, the U.S. nuclear power designer and builder that has been owned by Toshiba Corp. since March 2006.(read more)

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) must cut $500 million from its $16.8 billion budget request for nuclear operations submitted to the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) in May 2016, the utility regulator said Friday...(read more)

A tentative purchase offer from Dominion Energy of $14.6 billion has been accepted for SCANA Corp., media reports indicated Wednesday.(read more)

The year 2017 continued the 60-year anniversary celebrations at the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, which remains dedicated to its mission of providing global nuclear safeguards and development in the face of the threat of planet-altering climate change.(read more)

The Grundremmingen nuclear power plant Rector B in Bavaria was shut down as 2017 came to a close as part of the country's Engergiewende or energy transition policy, German media announced Monday.(read more)

SCANA Corp. said Thursday that its subsidiary South Carolina Electric & Gas Company, had taken the formal step of withdrawing from the V.C. Summer nuclear plant expansion project -- comprising of Units 2 and 3 at the plant -- by filing a formal request with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to withdraw the combined operating licenses (COLs) for two half-completed reactors.(read more)

Indian auditors have issued a report specifying a laundry list of cost-escalations caused by on-going construction delays and missed time-line expectations at the Kudankulum nuclear power plant, but also naming Rosatom export division Atomstroyexport as responsible for many of the delays.(read more)

Using powerful synchrotron X-ray imaging, scientists at the University of Sheffield in Britain announced recently that they had discovered uranium at the country's only uranium ore production facility binds with the toxic chemical arsenic to create an insoluble substance that could prevent radioactivity from leaching into the environment.(read more)

South Carolina Electric & Gas owner SCANA Corp. is now at odds with state regulators who denied the company a dismissal of a proposal that could mean lower electric bills for ratepayers who have shelled out close to $2 billion for the expansion of the V.C. Summer nuclear power plant.(read more)

In a long-expected deal, French utility, operator of all of the country's nuclear power plants, signed an agreement on Friday to purchase 75.5 percent of New NP from Areva SA.(read more)

After a lengthy review, which began in September 2013, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) of Japan has cleared two of Tokyo Electric Power Company's (Tepco) nuclear reactors for restarts, establishing several firsts since the March 2011 triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station.(read more)

Cleanup has begun in a “special reconstruction zone” of the town of Futaba in the evacuation zone close to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station, which suffered a triple-meltdown following an earthquake-triggered tsunami event in March 2011.(read more)

With necessity the mother of invention, Toshiba Corp. on Friday released details of a 43-foot long probe designed to do wide scanning inside the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station, where a triple meltdown occurred in 2011.(read more)

Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Company said Friday that it would cost too much to upgrade two units at the Oi nuclear power plant in central Japan and that the company had elected to decommission the two reactors, instead.(read more)

BWX Technologies Inc., said Thursday it had landed a major Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract along with lead partner Stoller Newport News Nuclear (SN3), a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries Technical Solusions division (read more)

Georgia Power on Thursday morning announced the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) had approved completion of the Vogtle 3 & 4 construction project near Waynesboro, Georgia. It will be "the nation's first new nuclear units in 30 years,"the company said, using a description of the project that has remained consistent in recent months.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday the agency had launched a Special Inspection at the Clinton nuclear power plant to review the circumstances surrounding the failure of a transformer and a subsequent manual shutdown of the reactor on Dec. 9.(read more)

Russia's state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom said Tuesday that hydraulic tests had begun at its latest VVER-1000/V-320 reactor, Rostov Unit 4, which reached first criticality in early December(read more)

Hot functionality tests at Olkiluoto Unit 3 in Finland, which will take months to complete, are underway at the first assembled European Pressurized Reactor (EPR), the plant's operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TV0) said. Successful completion of the tests are expected to lead to an operational license for the reactor, said TVO.(read more)

The Federal Aviation Administration said this week that it would add seven federal nuclear sites to its no-fly list for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones.(read more)

New AREVA said Monday it had signed three contracts valued at nearly 9 million euros ($10.63 million) in the past three months for treatment and management of radioactive waste at sites belonging to the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in the Fontenay-aux-Roses and Cadarache regions of France.(read more)

“You have to pick your battle,” said French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, in effect ruling out the push to phase out nuclear power in the country that is among the most reliant modern country in the world to rely on nuclear reactors to generate electricity.(read more)