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A nuclear fuel manufacturing facility in Hyderabad, India, in the south-central region of the sub-continent, is claiming to have set a world record in the production of fuel bundles for Pressurized Heavy Water Rectors in the 2016-2017 year.(read more)

Exelon Generation said Thursday it had formed a joint venture with the Japan Atomic Power Company meant to marry the company's expertise in nuclear power plant operations with opportunities among international operators using Japanese reactor technologies.(read more)

The Westinghouse Electric Company bankruptcy filing could pull the plug on the V.C. Summer nuclear power plant expansion project that is currently 34 percent completed, SCANA Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kevin Marsh told the South Carolina Public Services Commission (PSC) on Wednesday.(read more)

Construction teams reached a major milestone at the Hongyanhe Unit 6 project in China on Wednesday with the placement of the 180-metric ton containment building dome.(read more)

Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, owner of U.S.-based nuclear power giant Westinghouse Electric Company, released their twice-delayed financial report for the third fiscal quarter of 2016 on Tuesday, projecting losses of $9.2 billion for the year. The figures, which were not signed off on by the company's auditor, is based on a $4.8 billion loss for the first nine months of the year, plus skyrocketing losses at Westinghouse due to that company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing, Toshiba said.(read more)

After a three year hiatus due to a radiation leak that triggered a clean up and policy changes, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant underground repository in southeastern New Mexico is taking shipments of nuclear waste again(read more)

The French government has called for the closure of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant in eastern France, taking the initiative less than a week after the owner of the plant, EDF, said it would keep the plant open past the retirement of the current administration.(read more)

The board of directors at French utility EDF have voted to continue operations of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant that has received international pressure to close and was slated to do so as part of the French government's commitment to reduce the country's dependence on nuclear power.(read more)

AREVA and KAZATOMPROM signed a major agreement Monday to strengthen their long-standing cooperation in the uranium mining sector in Kazakhstan, the companies announced from Paris.(read more)

China's Atomic Energy Council (AEC) has approved Taiwan Power's application for a spent-fuel pool reconstruction project for the Kuosheng Nuclear Power Plant in the New Taipei Wanli District. The work is expected to take two months and allow the plant to restart in July. The current pool has been deemed unsafe.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulation Authority in Japan has cleared a fuel processing plant in the Kanagawa Prefecture for a restart, marking the first such facility approved under new standards that came about in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear generating station disaster.(read more)

Japanese conglomerate Toshiba announced Wednesday that French utility Engie had decided to back out of the Moorside project, selling its 40 percent stake in NuGen to Toshiba for $139 million.(read more)

Is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) having second thoughts about the sale of the unfinished Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant in Jackson County, Alabama?(read more)

Horizon Nuclear Power said Tuesday it had submitted its application for a Nuclear Site License for the two-reactor Wylfa Newydd power station project in Anglesey in Wales, Britain. The company said it was a “major step” that accounts for one of the primary licenses the company will need to pursue Wylfa Newydd, even while finances for the project have yet to be finalized.(read more)

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company on Tuesday said its Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Perry, Ohio was returned to service at 11:42 a.m. today, following a March 5, 2017, shutdown for refueling and maintenance. (read more)

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are proposing a new system construction of a small, molten-salt-cooled reactor that would be a substitute for a standalone prototype or at least provide critical data that could advance small reactor development.(read more)

Workers in Belarus have installed the replacement reactor pressure vessel for Unit One at the Ostrovets Nuclear Power Plant six months after the first one was dropped in an incident that caused Rosatom's director general at the time to offer a new one to mitigate concerns of damage to the one that dropped.(read more)

A new carbon index released by Carnegie Mellon with support from Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, indicated that greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power producers has dropped 24 percent compared with levels from 2005.(read more)

Entergy Corporation announced on Friday that the sale of the plant in Scriba, New York, to Exelon Generation had been completed. The company noted that the transaction was "another step in Entergy's exit from its merchant power business."(read more)

Struggling French nuclear power giant AREVA announced the sale of its majority stake in AREVA TA, a subsidiary specializing in nuclear propulsion and research reactors that employs nearly 1,500 people.(read more)

A day after filing for bankruptcy, Westinghouse Electric Company announced that its AP1000 nuclear power plant design has been approved by regulators in the United Kingdom, where three of the AP1000 models are slated for the Moorside nuclear plant project.(read more)

Rosatom and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran have signed a memorandum of understanding that covers nuclear materials transportation, the Russian company announced Tuesday.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company said Wednesday that it was had filed petitions of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the corporation a various subsidiaries and that it was seeking to restructure its business "as a result of certain financial and construction challenges in its U.S. AP1000 power plant projects."(read more)

An appeals court in Japan on Tuesday ruled that the Takahama nuclear plant's Units 3 and 4 in the Fukui Prefecture – about 210 miles west of Tokyo – could be restarted. Local media are...(read more)

Britain's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said it would terminate a $7.7 billion contract with Cavendish Fluor Partnership (CFP) that calls for decommissioning 12 Magnox nuclear power sites after just five years owing to a wide discrepancy between the work required to complete the work and the contract that was signed in 2014.(read more)

An international team representing nuclear power regulators from France, Canada, the United States, Finland, Britain and China has warned that the culture of credibility at AREVA's Le Creusot forge remained below expectations for the sophisticated nuclear power industry even two years past the discovery of anomalies at the Flamanville reactor expansion project.(read more)

Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2 experienced an unplanned shutdown at 12:15 a.m. Thursday with no threat to the environment or people, according to Tennessee Valley Authority officials.(read more)

Seeking to contain losses attributed to its nuclear power division Westinghouse Electric Co., Toshiba is now working to have the business file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to unnamed sources.(read more)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it had begun a special inspection of the Turkey Point Nuclear Plant near Homestead, Florida, to review particulars involving failure of a safety-related electrical bus that resulted in the plant declaring an alert.(read more)

Six years after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami events, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), owner of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, is seeking partners to help develop technology that would move the massive decommissioning project forward(read more)

Cho Hwan-eik, the chief executive officer of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) has confirmed that the company is discussing the possible purchase of Toshiba's 60 percent stake in NuGen, the company set to build three reactors on the coast of Cumbria in the United Kingdom.(read more)

Two industrial power houses, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and engineering and construction giant Bechtel announced Wednesday that they would form an alliance that would concentrate on decommissioning and dismantling services for nuclear power plants in Germany and Sweden.(read more)

French nuclear power company AREVA said Tuesday that the deal with Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced in February would take effect today.(read more)

An exploratory robot has been exploring Unit 1 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station in Japan and appears to be doing well recording radiation levels, temperatures and visual images of the primary containment vessel (PCV) that has far less radiation intensity than levels that crippled robots that examined Unit 2 in February.(read more)

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) said they had asked the British government to suspend work on the Hinkley Point C nuclear generating station in order to allow other countries to weigh in on the project.(read more)

The International Energy Agency said Friday that energy-related carbon dioxide emissions remained in a no-growth pattern for the third consecutive year in 2016, attributing the trend to a growth renewable power, turnovers from coal to natural gas, improvements in energy efficiency and, to a lesser degree, growth in nuclear power.(read more)

A district court in Maebashi, Japan, has ruled that both the government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company should have taken steps to avoid the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station, given a government report in 2002 indicated that a huge tsunami in the region was possible.(read more)

The European Commission said Friday that the Belgian government's plans to compensate Engie-Electrabel and EDF Belgium for potential financial risks linked to long-term operation of three nuclear plants – Tihange 1, Doel 1 and Doel 2 – to be in line with EU state aid rules.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will proceed with a technical review of NuScale Power's small modular reactor (SMR) design, the company said on Thursday.(read more)

Maryland-based small reactor developer X-energy announced Thursday that it would move its Xe-100 high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), which uses pebble bed technology, into the conceptual design phase(read more)

In what is being viewed as a symbolic incursion into coal power's established presence in Kentucky, Gov. Matt Bevin has said he will sign a bill that allows for nuclear power in the state that has banned nuclear power for decades.(read more)

Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom said Wednesday that construction had officially begun on the Bushehr Unit 2 nuclear power plant in Iran.(read more)

Satoshi Tsunakwa, the president of struggling Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp., said Tuesday that it was considering selling U.S. nuclear power giant Westinghouse Electric Company, a majority of which it purchased in 2006 for $5.4 billion.(read more)

In a decision certain to rattle the owners of nuclear power plants or revise their contract negotiations with suppliers, arbitrators at the International Chamber of Commerce said Tuesday that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) would only need to pay the warranty cap to the owners of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station based on faulty steam generators that were responsible for a complete shut down of Units 2 and 3 at the coastal California plant.(read more)

Global engineering consultancy Amec Foster Wheeler (AFW) said Monday that it had secured a five-year commitment from EDF Energy Nuclear Generation to continue its operational support for EDF's British fleet of nuclear power reactors.(read more)

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC said Monday they had agreed to collaborate in the development and licensing of an advanced small modular reactor that would have an initial focus of deployment in Canada.(read more)

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission to Kazakhstan's Institute of Nuclear Physics has concluded that the research facility has made “significant modifications and upgrades to improve the safety,” of their nuclear reactor.(read more)

German industrial Siemens announced Thursday that it had a installed a 108 mm (4.25 inch) in diameter impeller in a fire protection pump at the Krsko Nuclear Power Plant in Slovenia in January that was made using 3-D technology(read more)

FirstEnergy Corp. on Wednesday announced a major spending decision on infrastructure, calculating they would invest about $245 million in 2017 on distribution and transmission projects “to help enhance reiability for more than 560,000 customers in the Metropolitan Edison (Met-Ed) service territory.”(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it would send a team of two inspectors to the Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, Nebraska on Monday for a week-long inspection to review what is being called a human error that led to a dual-shut down of the plant's safety-related heat removal systems.(read more)