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Rosatom and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) officials hosted a concrete pouring ceremony on Thursday, June 29, marking the advancement of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant expansion project into the next construction stage.(read more)

An amendment to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, which established Yucca Mountain as the priority site of permanent spent nuclear waste storage, has made it out of the committee stage in the House of Representatives.(read more)

A long-term calcine removal project at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center is in the prototype construction and demonstration phase with a drilling test scheduled for July, a Department of Energy project manager said.(read more)

A senior official from the Bihar government of India has said that the northeastern state has decided to pursue nuclear power, aiming to construct a four-unit plant with a 3,000 MW capacity.(read more)

The first shipment of seven spent fuel assemblies previously in storage at Andreeva Bay in north-west Russia is underway, according to project organizers.(read more)

President Moon Jae-in of South Korea has ordered the temporary halt of construction of two Shin Kori reactors on the country's eastern coast in order to assess how the public feels about completing the projects.(read more)

A federal court of appeals in San Francisco ruled Friday that U.S. servicemen who were among those who provided aid to Japan following the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 can go through U.S. courts to pursue lawsuits against Japan and the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) on health issues related to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station.(read more)

French nuclear power giant AREVA NP said Monday it had sighed three nuclear fuel contracts totaling $560 million.(read more)

Energy Secretary Rick Perry this week told committees in the House and Senate that reviving Yucca Mountain's application as a federal repository for nuclear waste was a “moral obligation" to the public.(read more)

Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom notched a third Memorandum of Understanding in the week concerning plans for export of nuclear power for peaceful purposes, this time signing with Ethiopian officials in a first-ever agreement between the two countries on nuclear power.(read more)

Canadian Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) developer Terrestrial Energy announced this the commencement of a feasibility study to explore siting the world's first IMSR for commercial purposes. The study is designed to choose a site at the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) at Chalk River in Ontario.(read more)

The final movement of spent nuclear fuel at the shuttered Kewaunee Power Station in Wisconsin, 35 miles southeast of Green Bay, has been completed, Dominion Energy, the plant's owner, announced Wednesday.(read more)

Rosatom used the occasion of the Annual Nuclear Power Exhibition in Moscow this week to sign two more important agreements for nuclear power exportation, signing accords with Uganda and Sudan, Wednesday.a(read more)

A report on the nuclear power industry by Bloomberg New Energy Finance analyst Nicholas Steckler says what industry observers have been seeing develop with the advent of natural gas hydrofracking: Nuclear power plants around the country are losing money with the erosion of electricity prices.(read more)

The Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection (ORP) and contractor Bechtel National Inc. (BNI) said that employees had “safely completed final assembly of the first melter at Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), also known as the Vit Plant.”(read more)

With construction of Turkey's four-reactor Akkuyu nuclear power plant yet to begin, Russian nuclear giant Rosatom on Monday agreed to sell a 49 percent of the project to three Turkish companies.(read more)

Russian state-owned nuclear power giant Rosatom has begun to produce nuclear fuel for markets in the United States and Sweden, a Sputnik report announced.(read more)

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday vowed to upend the energy production mix in the country with a one-two punch: The phase out of nuclear power and a sharp cut back on coal-burning energy plants.(read more)

Legislation that returns Yucca Mountain, Nevada, to the front of the line with regards to selection – and implementation – of the nation's federal repository for spent fuel from nuclear power plants passed a House subcommittee's review in Washington on Thursday.(read more)

On Thursday, a Japanese industrial group headed by Toshiba revealed a third robot design that will be used to explore the damaged reactor vessels at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station. The swimming robot was quickly dubbed “the Little Sunfish.” (read more)

Turkey has granted approval for a four-unit Russian-built nuclear power plant at Akkuyu, which is expected to cost $20 billion to build with an accelerated completion date set for 2023.(read more)

A team of international atomic energy experts conducting a SALTO (Safety Aspects of Long Term Operations) review at the Qinshan Unit 1 nuclear power plant in China has concluded that the plant's operators had made significant progress on ageing management for the unit that was made operational in 1991.(read more)

Over the next nine years, six nuclear power plants are expected to close unless economic interventions are put into place to keep at least one of them operating, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Tuesday.(read more)

A district court in Japan's Saga Prefecture in the Kyushu region of southern Japan has rejected a request from about 250 citizens to impose an injunction that would prohibit the restart of Kyushu Electric Power's Genkai nuclear power plant.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company said Tuesday that it had formally launched its accident-tolerant fuel solution called EnCoreTM Fuel. The formal announcement was made during the company’s Fuel Users’ Group Meeting, attended by nuclear fuel customers from around the world.(read more)

French engineering and nuclear build company AREVA announced Tuesday that cold functional tests (CFT) had begun at the long-delayed Olkiluoto Unit 3 European Pressurized Reactor under construction in Finland.(read more)

South Korea's nuclear power regulator, the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC), has announced approval of the shut down of the country's oldest commercial reactor, Kori 1, a 576 MWe pressurized water reactor that began its commercial operations in 1978.(read more)

Southern Company has said it was pleased with the Saturday's news that Toshiba had agreed to pay $3.68 billion that would see the Plant Vogtle expansion project to completion. Construction of the two AP-1000 Westinghouse reactor's at the site in Waynesboro, Georgia, had been managed by Westinghouse, a Toshiba subsidiary that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 29.(read more)

--Press Release--Georgia Power LogoGeorgia Power, the largest electric subsidiary of Southern Company, has entered into a new agreement with Toshiba, the parent company of Vogtle contractor Westinghouse. The agreement, approved by the U.S. Department of Energy, affirms the value of Toshiba's guarantee at $3.68 billion – providing additional protections for Georgia electric customers following Westinghouse's March bankruptcy. (read more)

Engineering giant Sweco – formerly Swedish Consultants – announced that it had been granted a $23 million contract by the country's nuclear waste management company SKB (Svensk Karnbranslehantering AB) for engineering and safety analysis reports for the future encapsulation plant in Oskarshamn, known as Clink.(read more)

The French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) in a preliminary report, says that construction will be allowed to continue at the Flamanville Unit 3 construction project despite anomalies of high carbon concentrations found in steel used for the vessel bottom head of the European Pressurized Reactor.(read more)

Southern Company has made their May release of the Vogtle Units 3 & 4 construction progress photographs. (read more)

Germany's highest court has declared a tax imposed on nuclear fuel rods, put in place after the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi generation station in Japan, was illegal.(read more)

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said that five workers at a research facility in east Japan had been exposed to high levels of radioactivity after a storage bag they were handling burst open.(read more)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a motion with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to have the court force the federal government to re-channel its funds and activities towards a spent nuclear fuel (SNF) storage solution at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.(read more)

The Kansai Electric Power Company reactivated its No. 3 reactor at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Japan Tuesday, initiating control rod removal at 2:00 P.M. local time, media reports indicate. The...(read more)

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced a $112 million contract awarded to CAST Specialty Transportation, Inc., a Colorado company, for transportation services connected to the Waste Isolation Pilot Program in Carlsbad, New Mexico.(read more)

Georgia Power and Westinghouse Electric have agreed to a 48-hour extension of the interim construction agreement that was due to end June 3, the companies announced.(read more)

Ignoring the advice of government officials, corporate leaders and family members, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that the United States would pull out of the 2015 Paris Agreement that sought to impose limits on pollution that contributes to global warming.(read more)

The door is open for a national discussion on small modular reactor (SMR) technology in Canada, as the Canadian National Laboratories (CNL) on Friday announced the kick off of a “Request for Expressions of Interest on SMRs,” which would run from 1 June to 31 July.(read more)

Omaha Public Power District Representatives assured the public in an open meeting Wednesday that its current funding strategy for decommissioning the shuttered Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant would cover the costs.(read more)

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) has announced the safe arrival of the first Korean-fabricated fuel assemblies that will be used in the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant's No. 1 and 2 reactors once approval for the start ups have been granted.(read more)

Ontario Power Generation's latest report on the controversial Deep Geologic Repository for radioactive waste close to Lake Huron affirms the company's position that the a waste storage site close to the nation's largest nuclear power facility is a more attractive option than shipping the waste elsewhere.(read more)

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano opened the agency's annual conference in Vienna Tuesday, stating that nuclear power was needed to help developing countries that required a stable energy source for growth while avoiding undue contributions to global warming.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company said Tuesday that, together with its eight European consortium partners, it had reached a milestone with the approval of the conceptual design for fuel for the VVER-440 assemblies, which is an enhanced version of a previous Westinghouse fuel product that was delivered to the Loviisa Nuclear Power Plant in Finland from 2001 to 2007.(read more)

Exelon Corporation said Tuesday that it would close down the famous Three Miles Island Generating Station in Pennsylvania in September 2019, barring an unexpected policy shift that would turn the current energy market economics around for the state's nuclear power industry.(read more)

Horizon Nuclear Power has moved the Wylfa Newydd project design forward with a consolidated facility concept that eliminates the need for some buildings, including some of the off-site structures, and combines operations for radioactive waste storage for the two units.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday that it had submitted its budget request for fiscal year 2018 to the U.S. Congress, asking for $45 million less than the previous annual request, in part to adjust to a smaller staff required due to work completed in response to the Fukushima Daiichi accident of 2011.(read more)

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has delivered three replacement steam generators to Électricité de France S.A. (EDF) for the Cruas Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 Reactor. The replacement steam generators have been certified by France's nuclear authority as compliant with the country's strict regulatory requirements on April 28, 2017.(read more)

--Shared by Texas A&M Engineering -- Advanced reactor technologies have generated interest for their potential to reduce fossil fuel emissions, improve energy efficiency and cut down on nuclear waste. Researchers with the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University have provided new insights into the workings of an advanced sodium-cooled fast reactor fuel assembly, having used a specialized test facility to measure hydraulic parameters and validate computational tools used in reactor design and testing. (read more)