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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, noting three apparent violations involving a scrap metal shipment, said Monday it had issued a confirmatory order to the Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas (GNF-A) manufacturing facility in Wilmington, N.C., following an agreement reached during an alternative dispute resolution mediation session completed in late October.(read more)

With construction all but completed at Unit 1 of China's Taishan nuclear power plant 130 kilometers from Hong Kong, the unit having already completed cold functional and thermal functional testing, state-owned China General Nuclear Power Corp (CGN). said it was replacing a large component, the deaerator , that reportedly cracked during one of the tests.(read more)

One of Japan's reactor restarts out of its five currently operating nuclear reactors has been shut down by the Hiroshima High Court, which has overruled a lower court's ruling on the safety of the plant.(read more)

Three regulatory agencies in Britain – Natural Resources Wales, the Environment Agency and the Office for Nuclear Regulation – have given approval to a Hitachi-GE nuclear reactor after a review process that took five years to complete.(read more)

Georgia Power and the other Vogtle co-owners, Oglethorpe Power, MEAG Power and Dalton Utilities said Thursday they had received a total of $3.68 billion in parent guarantee payments from Toshiba, the full amount owed by the parent company of former primary Vogtle contractor Westinghouse.(read more)

The Ruthenium-106 spike detected by several European atmospheric monitoring networks in late September could have originated at a nuclear processing plant in Russia, although officials at the plant said that they had not experienced a leak at the plant.(read more)

It was a dramatic, hectic, nerve-wracking year for the Plant Vogtle Expansion project in Waynesboro, Georgia, as Georgia Power's year in review indicates. The high-tension drama was in the front office, but a clip shows that workers on the site kept up the pace, regardless.(read more)

Rusatom Service of Russia announced the competed delivery of a new turbo generators for the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor as part of a refurbishment program. A second new generator is expected to be delivered in December 2018.(read more)

Santee Cooper, the state owned utility in South Carolina that is minority owner of the now suspended V.C. Summer nuclear power plant expansion project, already knows what it is getting for Christmas – the Fairfield County site of the two-reactor project that Santee Cooper and majority owner South Carolina Electric and Gas (SCE&G) called a halt to this summer.(read more)

Rosatom Director General of ROSATOM Alexey Likhachev and Egypt’s Minister of Electricity And Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker signed the notices allowing for them to proceed with the contracts for the construction of the El Dabaa nuclear power plant. The signing took place as fuel loading began at Unit 1 of the Leningrad Phase II project and while preparations are underway for the start up of Rostov 4.(read more)

Georgia Power said Friday that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) had issued the final approval needed for Georgia Power's new agreement with Toshiba, the parent company of former primary Vogtle contractor Westinghouse, to receive all remaining scheduled payments from Toshiba in the amount of approximately $3.2 billion by Dec. 15, 2017.(read more)

Officials of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in France, building what is called the most complex human project ever, said Thursday that construction of the $22 billion hydrogen fusion power machine is now 50 percent complete.(read more)

--Press Release--L3 MAPPS announced today that it has been contracted by EDF Energy Nuclear Generation to supply two classroom simulators to its Nuclear Power Academy in the U.K. The project is underway and the two simulators will be put into service in the first quarter of 2018. (read more)

An announcement naming Korean conglomerate Kepco as the preferred bidder for the Moorside nuclear power plant project and noting that the company is expected to purchase developer NuGen from Toshiba, is...(read more)

Owners of the Plant Vogtle expansion project in Georgia said Tuesday that they had reached a new, non-bindng agreement with struggling Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, the parent company of the former primary Vogtle contractor Westinghouse Electric Company, that would allow them to receive all the remaining scheduled payments from Toshiba by Dec. 15, 2017.(read more)

NAC KazAtomProm, the national uranium production company in the country that is called "the Saudi Arabia of uranium," said this week it would lower production targets by 20 percent over the next three years and still fulfill all of its contracted obligations for delivery.(read more)

Fluor Corporation announced Monday that it had been awarded a contract of an undisclosed value that includes replacing the emergency power generators for Units 1 and 2 at the Ontario Power Generation's Darlington Nuclear Generating Station in Ontario, Canada.(read more)

A meeting between Saudi Arabia's energy minister Khalid al-Falih and U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry in Vienna concluded with no nuclear power pact announcement being made. After the meeting, Perry said it would be premature to make a statement about any accord, Reuters reported. Falih, however, made it clear that U.S. companies were welcome to bid on nuclear power plant projects in the Kingdom. (read more)

Regional conflict in the Middle East came to the nuclear power industry over the weekend, according to rebel fighters in Yeman, who claimed they had fired a ballistic missile at the nuclear plant under construction in Barakah in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).(read more)

Unit 2 at the Leningrad Phase II nuclear power plant in western Russia now has an installed reactor vessel, which was put in place Thursday, nuclear giant Rosatom has said.(read more)

Restarts of four Japanese reactors will be delayed by two months as their operators, Kansai Electric Power Company and Kyushu Electric Power Company, sift through files and inspect plants to see if safety has been jeopardized by the Kobe Steel Ltd data fabrication scandal that came to light in October.(read more)

Clean up work at the Hanford Site in Washington State – production base for weapons-bound plutonium in previous years – has reached a milestone with completion of radioactive sludge removal from the first of 12 storage tank farms on site, officials are saying.(read more)

Georgia Power has provided the latest drone footage of the construction progress at Vogtle Units 3 & 4. (read more)

Aberdeen, Scotland-based Wood Group, in line to purchase engineering and consultancy Amec Foster Wheeler – shareholder groups approved the purchase recently – has been awarded a two-year contract with potential extensions for providing services related to the nuclear decommissioning of the Dounreay Site in Scotland.(read more)

United States-based X Energy LLC, a reactor design and fuel fabrication company, said Wednesday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kingdom of Jordan's Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) designed to assess X-energy's advanced nuclear reactor - the Xe-100 – and its potential for deployment in Jordan.(read more)

Defined as “a group: or “several individuals” an unspecified number of anti-nuclear protesters have been detained in France after breaking into the Cruas-Meysse nuclear power plant in southern France, Reuters and APF have reported.(read more)

GSE Systems Inc. said Tuesday that its latest high-fidelity simulation systems and training/consulting solutions to the power and process industries, OpenSim 7.0, would be implemented as a fleet solution across all nuclear plant sites for an existing client operating in the southern United States.(read more)

-Press Release--L3 MAPPS announced today that it was named in APAC CIO Outlook’s list of 2017 Top 25 Simulation Solution Providers in the Asia-Pacific region. APAC CIO Outlook’s research acknowledges the innovative nuclear power plant learning technologies and simulation solutions provided by L3 MAPPS, as well as its customer-centric business approach. (read more)

The Fukui Prefecture government in Japan said Monday that it had granted utility Kansai Electric Power Company permission to restart the Ohi nuclear power plant's No. 3 and 4 units, which the company said it expects to happen in January and March of 2018.(read more)

The NRC said it had issued a confirmatory order to Dominion Energy Nuclear Connecticut Inc. following an Alternative Dispute Resolution mediation session regarding security-related violations at the Millstone nuclear power plant.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a request by Exelon Generation Co. LLC to increase the generating capacity of Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3, by an estimated 1.66 percent, the federal regulator has announced.(read more)

Amidst an atmosphere of political heat and ratepayer angst associated with the cessation of work on the multi-billion dollar V.C. Summer expansion project, South Carolina Electric and Gas Company on Thursday proposed a multi-dimensional compensation package offering economic relief to ratepayers and proposing to add natural-gas fired power and solar panel investments to appease its constituency.(read more)

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake jolted South Korea on Wednesday, causing injuries and damage to buildings, but did not affect operations at the country's 28 operating nuclear power plants.(read more)

Work to fill the collapsed storage tunnel at the Hanford site in Washington state with a grout-like substance has been completed, the Department of Energy said.(read more)

Dominion Energy Virginia said Monday that it had notified the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of its intent to re-license North Anna Power Station in Louisa County, Virginia, for an additional 20-year term, noting that it had already done the same for the two Surry Power Station reactors.(read more)

A team of scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with Tohoku University, TokyoCity University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency has proposed a novel approach to tackle the problem of radioactive waste disposal.(read more)

Canadian IMSR developer Terrestrial Energy said Wednesday that it had received notice from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) that it has successfully completed the first phase of the CNSC’s pre-licensing vendor design review for its Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) nuclear power plant design.(read more)

French nuclear power regulator IRSN (Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire) said Thursday that it had detected a late September spike in the isotope Ruthenium 106 and suspects that the source of the leak, which was not threatening to humans, was a fuel processing or fuel storage center in Russia or Kazakhstan.(read more)

A California state judge on Thursday concluded his arbitration of Pacific Gas & Electric Company's financial request concerning the closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, coming up with a compromise figure that falls short of what the utility was seeking.(read more)

Georgia Power announced the latest milestone at the Vogtle nuclear expansion project on Wednesday and released the latest quarterly video highlighting progress at the massive, twin-AP1000 reactor project.(read more)

There is good news and bad news in the United Nation's eighth Emissions Gap Report – the 2017 edition – released Tuesday, but the bottom line is a immediate need for countries around the globe to increase efforts to curb carbon emissions that are contributing to global warming.(read more)

Indian scientists at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotic (CAIR) have developed a remotely controlled system for inspecting steam generator tube eddy currents in nuclear power plants, which will remove humans from the potentially hazardous job, according to a Sputnik report.(read more)

Chinese media reported Tuesday that the first jointly-designed Hualong One nuclear reactor, a third-generation reactor design with contributions from the China General Nuclear Power Group and the China National Nuclear Corporation, had successfully completed all of its pre-operations testing on Monday.(read more)

French Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot said Tuesday that it was “unrealistic” for the country to aim for a reduction of nuclear power to 50 percent of France's electricity generation mix by 2025, calling, instead, for a focus on reducing the use of fossil fuel, which contributes to global warming.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRA) in Bulgaria has approved of the first license extension in the country for a nuclear power plant, giving Unit 5 at the Kuzloduy plant an additional 10 years of operational life.(read more)

With a design and construction license in place for Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom to commence construction of the first nuclear power plant in Bangladesh, the country has now joined the world's “nuclear club,” said Yeafrsh Osman, the minister for Science and Technology in the up and coming country.(read more)

Power Magazine has named its three top nuclear power plants of the year, tipping its hat to the Columbia Generating Station as the top U.S. plant.(read more)

The governor of Connecticut, Danial Malloy, a Democrat, has signed a bill sent to him last week by the General Assembly, that allows the state to change market rules to permit Dominion Energy to join a...(read more)

With many Russian and Iranian officials on hand, site work has begun with a launch ceremony at the site of a joint construction project for two Russian-designed nuclear power plants in the province of Bushehr.(read more)

With the political reaction to the cancellation of the V.C. Summer nuclear power plant expansion project reaching over-boil this week, majority owner SCANA Corporation said Tuesday that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Kevin Marsh would resign at the end of the year.(read more)