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Alexey Likhachev, the head of Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom outlined the company's long range plans at the International Atomic Energy Agency conference in Vienna Wednesday, calling “energy poverty and worldwide inequality,” among the most daunting challenges facing the industry today.(read more)

SCANA Corporation said Thursday that it had been issued a subpoena from the U.S. Attorney's Office in South Carolina for documents related to the canceled expansion project at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station.(read more)

The Georgia Public Service Commission on Tuesday voted unanimously to support the continuation of construction at the Plant Vogtle expansion project, the necessary bureaucratic step required to move the project to a viable, secure status after a dramatic month of decision making.(read more)

The head of Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom Alexei Likhachev said Tuesday that construction work had begun at Akkuyu in Turkey, a southern city on the Mediterranean Sea that will house the country's first nuclear power plant.(read more)

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) announced that the second unit at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in India would be restarted on 7 October, about a month later than prior expectations.(read more)

Fennovoima, the nuclear power consortium of Finland, said Monday that it had postponed expectations for a building permit for a Rosatom-built nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki, North Ostrobothnia on the country's western coast for the year 2018.(read more)

FirstEnergy Corp. said it had hired contractors to repair two areas of cracks in the outer layer of concrete of the 296-feet tall containment building at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant near Toledo, Ohio, that has been blamed on freezing and thawing conditions during a blizzard in 1978.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company said Monday that it has signed a contract with Ukraine’s State Enterprise National Nuclear Energy Generation Company Energoatom to deliver important monitoring instrumentation systems to four units at the Zaporizhzhya power plant.(read more)

A policy-impacting committee in Japan, the Atomic Energy Commission, on Thursday announced its latest endorsement for the country's energy generation mix. The endorsement calls for a 20 percent target for nuclear power among Japan's generation capacity by 2030.(read more)

A new study to be published in the journal of Environmental Science and Technology says that there was no spike in radioactive contamination in salmon, trout or shellfish along the west coast of North...(read more)

The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) in Japan held off on granting the Tokyo Electric Power Company clearance to restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant's two units – No. 6 and 7 – this week, but noted that the company (Tepco) was capable of running nuclear reactors.(read more)

The China Daily said Tuesday that China National Nuclear Power Company Ltd. (CNNP) would establish a new company based in the province of Hebei that would work towards development of a traveling-wave reactor (TWR) which can theoretically operate for decades using a single fuel load of depleted uranium-238.(read more)

Centrus Energy Corp. announced Tuesday that it has signed several new sales contracts in the last three months to supply its utility customers with low-enriched uranium fuel. The total value of the contracts is an estimated $70 million, with deliveries through 2025. (read more)

The International Atomic Energy Agency has completed a two-week advisory mission in China that included a review of China's legislative and regulatory framework for nuclear security, as well as on-site inspections of the Fangjiashan Nuclear Power Plant to assess security and physical security systems up close.(read more)

Officials in South Korea said Monday that the jury of 500 expected to decided the fate of two nuclear power plants under construction – Shingori Units 5 and 6 near the city of Ulsan – had been formed, taken from a list of 5,981 survey participants who indicated they would be willing to participate in the decision process.(read more)

With one of the most severe hurricanes on record aiming to make landfall in Florida by this weekend, Florida Power & Light (FPL) said it would shut down the two nuclear power plants in the storm's path, Turkey Point and St. Lucie.(read more)

X Energy and Centrus Energy Corp. said Thursday they had signed a memorandum of understanding to explore collaboration toward production of fuel for advanced nuclear reactors.(read more)

A report released by the office of the governor of South Carolina on Wednesday described significant issues with the V.C. Summer nuclear plant expansion project that indicates that completion of the project was an uphill battle, even as of early in 2016, when the report was completed.(read more)

Lightbridge Corporation and AREVA NP in North America said Wednesday they had signed a binding Heads of Terms Agreement for a joint venture that sets out conditions for manufacturing and commercializing Lightbridge’s advanced metallic fuel technology.(read more)

The Unit 2 AP1000 Westinghouse-designed nuclear reactor at the Sanmen nuclear plant construction project in China is one step closer to completion as the State Nuclear Power Technology Company said that reactor had passed its cold hydrostatic testing on September 2.(read more)

Check out the latest Vogtle 3 & 4 nuclear plant construction pictures released by Georgia Power Company.(read more)

Members of China's parliament on Friday approved of a new law that enhances the power of the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) as the country's regulator for their nuclear power industry.(read more)

Bulgaria this week held a construction launch ceremony for a low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste repository to be built close to the Kozloduy nuclear power plant, which sits on the Danube River close to the border with Romania.(read more)

Georgia Power announced Friday that it has contracted with global engineering, construction and project management firm Bechtel to manage daily construction efforts at the Plant Vogtle expansion project. Bechtel will work under the direction of Southern Nuclear, the Southern Company subsidiary which operates the existing units at Plant Vogtle.(read more)

Georgia Power today filed a recommendation with the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to continue construction of the Vogtle nuclear expansion near Augusta, Georgia. The project's co-owners, Oglethorpe Power, MEAG Power and Dalton Utilities, all support the recommendation.(read more)

Reactors at the South Texas Project, in the path of the Hurricane Harvey -- 90 miles southwest of Houston -- kept churning out power despite the conditions outside.(read more)

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Wednesday that it had partnered with the Kazakhstan government and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) to launch a new low enrichment uranium bank in Kazakhstan that will provide countries investing in nuclear power an assured supply of fuel to use for peaceful purposes.(read more)

Kyushu Electric Power Co. in Japan said Monday that the it had submitted a request to the Nuclear Regulation Authority for an inspection of the Genkai Nuclear Power Plant's Unit 3 that would take the reactor a step closer to a restart in January of 2018. (read more)

Southern California Edison (SCE) on Monday announced an agreement to find a new storage site for spent fuel generated at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) near San Diego.(read more)

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday began a 10-day assessment of China's nuclear security, a mission that was prompted by a request from the China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA).(read more)

The U.S. nuclear power industry is beset with another wait-and-see week, as thousands of construction workers on site, hundreds of thousands of ratepayers and constituents across the state of Georgia anticipate the decision this week on whether or not the Plant Vogtle expansion project will continue.(read more)

Duke Energy Corporation said Friday it would seek permission to cancel the Lee Nuclear project slated for Gaffney, South Carolina, noting that it would ask regulators for permission to recover at least $368 million from ratepayers that were incurred as pre-construction costs.(read more)

Santee Cooper on Friday announced the resignation of Chief Executive Officer Lonnie Carter, who has served as the head of the state-owned utility since 2004 and has worked there since 1982.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company said Wednesday that it has signed a nuclear fuel contract extension with PSEG, a major supplier of nuclear power in New Jersey, to continue providing fuel assemblies for both units at the Salem Nuclear Generating Station. (read more)

The United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Thursday that a Site and External Events Design (SEED) team had reviewed the Republic of Korea's preparedness for seismic activities related to two nuclear plants that had been subjected to a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in September 2016.(read more)

Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom said Tuesday that fuel loading had begun ahead of schedule at the Tianwan nuclear power plant's new Unit 3 in the Jiangsu Province of China. (read more)

A Senate hearing in South Carolina's capital Tuesday yielded no breakthroughs that could signal hope for breathing new life into the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station expansion project that was abandoned on July 31 by the project owners South Carolina Electric and Gas and state-owned utility Santee Cooper.(read more)

The governor of Ohio, John Kasich, said Monday that he would not support a rescue plan for FirstEnergy Corp that would ensure the state's two nuclear power plants would have viable financial futures.(read more)

--Press Release--MONTREAL, August 21, 2017 – L3 MAPPS announced today that under a contract with Swiss industrial technology company ABB it will update the simulator it provided in 2006 for DTE Energy’s Fermi 2 nuclear power plant based in Newport, Michigan.(read more)

Canada's primary research facility for nuclear research, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), said that its request for expression of interest (RFEOI) notices concerning small nuclear reactors, had prompted responses from over 70 organizations including potential host communities seeking to deploy the new technology.(read more)

A new Georgia Power video shows how workers last week at the Plant Vogtle expansion project in Waynesboro, Ga., accomplished the first major lift since Southern Nuclear was put in charge of the project earlier this summer. (read more)

The national nuclear power regulator in France, Autorite de Surete Nucleaire (ASN) has opened a public review of an order that would force utility giant EDF to review records involving any of the components in active nuclear power plants that were fabricated at the Le Creusot forge, which is owned by Areva.(read more)

Amec Foster Wheeler said Friday that joint venture OneAIM had been awarded a $188 million, four-year contract to provide facility support, along with partner Inferserve, for the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria in northwest England.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday it had approved Tennessee Valley Authority’s request for a 14.3 percent increase in the generating capacity of Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Units 1, 2 and 3.(read more)

Georgia Power announced Wednesday that the first steam generator has been placed at the Vogtle nuclear expansion project near Waynesboro, Georgia.(read more)

The restart of units 3 and 4 at Kyushu Electirc Power Company's Genkai nuclear generating station is being postponed from this coming fall to later in the winter, possibly until early 2018, the company said.(read more)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a follow up confirmatory order to Westinghouse Electric Company that seeks to address ongoing concerns associated with the May 2016 discovery of a build up of uranium bearing material in a scrubber system at the Columbia Fuel Fabricating Facility in South Carolina.(read more)

For the first time since 2012, processed and treated transuranic waste is leaving Oak Ridge’s Transuranic Waste Processing Center for permanent disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico, the program's Office of Environmental Management said.(read more)

A report from the Energy Futures Initiative, headed by former Energy Department Secretary Ernest Moniz, calls for greater support for nuclear power based on the premise that a strong commercial nuclear power sector is needed to ensure safety of material that has enormous potential for harm if it fell into the wrong hands.(read more)

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) in Abu Dhabi announced Monday that the fourth reactor vessel steam generators have been installed at the four-unit nuclear power plant that will be a first for the country and the region.(read more)