The University of Missouri Research Reactor Center (MURR) has been granted a renewed operating license, the school said, allowing the 10 megawatt facility that opened in 1966 to continue operating for another 20 years.(read more)
A state policy that seems prudent and necessary to energy companies considering construction of a new nuclear reactor is facing fresh opposition in Florida, where Progress Energy Florida remains uncommitted to a nuclear power plant project that may end up costing $24 billion.(read more)
With China currently building 21 new nuclear reactors, new reports indicate that the country will nearly triple its nuclear power capacity by 2026 and overtake the United States as the country with the largest generation capacity from nuclear power by that year.(read more)
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said Monday that is may have found melted nuclear fuel below Fukushima Daiichi Generating Station's No. 2 reactor, which is one of the three that suffered meltdowns...(read more)
Japanese conglomerate Toshiba said Saturday that it would stop taking orders for nuclear plant construction projects, but finish the projects it has underway in the United States. The company owns Westinghouse Electric Company, designer and builder of the AP1000 advanced pressurized water reactors under construction in Georgia at Plant Vogtle and South Carolina at V.C. Summer.(read more)
A group of Canadian scientists and research-oriented General Fusion, are calling on the government to allocate $125 million over the next five years to advance the prospects of developing a nuclear fusion facility.(read more)
Swedish small reactor developer LeadCold, which has a subsidiary in Canada, said Thursday that it had secured $200 million (US) in funding from Essel Group ME that will enable the company to construct the world's first privately funded lead-cooled nuclear power plant.(read more)
Plans to begin spent nuclear fuel removal at Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, hit by a devastating post-earthquake tsunami in March 2011, has been postponed to sometime after March 2018, Japanese media are reporting.(read more)
The bipartisan-sponsored Advanced Nuclear Technology Act of 2017 and was passed in the House of Representatives with a voice vote on Monday this week, leading the way for passage of other motions that promote nuclear power through rule changes, according to media sources.(read more)
Terrestrial Energy USA (TEUSA) said Tuesday that it had informed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission of its plans to license a small modular, advanced nuclear reactor for use in the United States.(read more)
French utility EDF has announced that its board of directors had taken a step towards closure of its oldest operating nuclear power plant, the Fessenheim station, the age of which – it was commissioned in 1977 – has given opponents an argument for pressuring the company to shut down the reactor.(read more)
ENEC, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, said Monday that it had received license to manage the transportation of nuclear fuel from the United Arab Emirates Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), marking a regulatory threshold had been reached.(read more)
Georgia Power this week released its latest quarterly video that highlights the latest accomplishments at Plant Vogtle expansion project in Waynesboro, Georgia. This one notes “another year of safe construction†at the project, which has now notched more than 27 million safe work hours at the site without a lost-time accident, a record that includes the work of more than 6,000 employees.(read more)
Galvanizing and welded equipment specialists and engineering firm AZZ Inc., said Friday that an agreement to divest itself of its Nuclear Logistics business unit to Westinghouse Electric Company had been scraped in favor of a "teaming agreement" in which Westinghouse and AZZ would jointly market their safety-related services to the nuclear industry.(read more)
In a region beset by premature nuclear plant closures, lawmakers in Connecticut once again, as they attempted in 2016, say they are willing to bring nuclear power into the mix along with renewable power sources in bidding for contracts with the state.(read more)
Energy and environmental research group Environmental Progress has announced a freshly released study that finds the climate-threatening emissions from the power generation industry in California has created 250 percent more emissions than it would have if built and planned nuclear power plants in the state had remained open or reached fruition.(read more)
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said Thursday that its staff had cleared the North Anna site near Mineral, Virginia, on safety concerns for a proposed new nuclear power reactor.(read more)
Following a green light on the plan from the European Commission, the French government has sold a sizable stake in the gas and oil giant Engie (formerly GDF Suez) in order to finance the rescue of nuclear power concern AREVA.(read more)
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has cleared two more plants for restart based on preliminary safety assessments, Kyushu Electric Company's Genkai Units 3 and 4, but their restart is not likely until sometime this summer, media reports indicate.(read more)
AREVA NP said this week it had signed a multimillion-dollar agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to provide fleet-wide refuel equipment upgrades.(read more)
French authorities cleared the restart of nine reactors out of 12 that were caught up in the search for high carbon concentrations in steel components manufactured by Japan Casting and Forging Corporation (JCFC).(read more)
--Press Release--L3 MAPPS announced today that it has been awarded a contract by United Kingdom-based EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Limited to perform upgrade work on the operator training simulator for the Dungeness B Nuclear Power Station. The two-phase project will start immediately and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2019. (read more)
A court ruling in Finland has opened the door for a flight of Finnish investors from the Fennovoima nuclear plant project that is slated for Pyhajoki on the Hanhikivi peninsula on the country's west coast on the Gulf of Bothnia.(read more)
China General Nuclear Power Corporation took stock of its accomplishments in 2016 and noted its achievements included adding five completed nuclear reactors to its fleet in the year.(read more)
Bouygues Construction announced this week that a subsidiary, Bouygues Travaux Publics, a consortium with the British construction firm Laing O'Rourke, had signed contracts with French utility EDF for the construction of the Hinkley Point C nuclear reactors in the United Kingdom. The contract's value for the company comes to at least $1.81 billion, Bouygues said.(read more)
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week that it had accepted for review the Early Site Permit application for the Clinch River site near Oak Ridge, Tenn., which is earmarked as the site for two or more small modular reactors.(read more)
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said that components in U.S. nuclear plants made at the Creusot Forge in France that were implicated by an ongoing controversy over high-carbon concentrations and paper work irregularities had performed well and revealed no problems during safety inspections. (read more)
Next generation nuclear power plant developer NuScale has requested a regulatory review of its small modular reactor (SMR) design for commercial application, submitting its nearly 12,000-pages of SMR plans to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the company announced Thursday.(read more)
Energy Fuels Inc. said Wednesday that it had received the last major government approvals to re-start mining at the Sheep Mountain Project in the Crooks Gap Mining District of central Wyoming, once a large-scale, conventional uranium mine.(read more)
[UPDATED - Video Added] South Carolina Electric & Gas Company announced a major construction milestone at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station expansion project, the placement, on January 10, of the first steam generator at a Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear plant in the United States.(read more)
European Commission anti-trust regulators ruled Tuesday that the French government's rescue plans for troubled nuclear engineering firm AREVA were in line with state aid rules.(read more)
French and Chinese companies EDF Energy and China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) said Tuesday that the British government had requested nuclear power regulators – namely the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and the Environment Agency – to begin a Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of the hybrid UK HPR1000 nuclear reactor technology that is slated for inclusion in Britain's generation mix at a future plant at Bradwell in Essex.(read more)
China General Nuclear Power Corp. said it connected the fourth unit of the Yangjiang nuclear power plant to the grid on Sunday, allowing the company to initiate the final round of testing before the reactor in southern China enters commercial operation status.(read more)
Entergy announced Monday that it had reached an agreement with New York State that would pave the way for closure of the two operating reactors at the Indian Point power plant in the village of Buchanan in northern Westchester County.(read more)
The U.S. Energy Department confirmed reports that the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southern New Mexico had reopened after a three-year shut down prompted by a leaking drum that contaminated significant portions of the facility that accepts low level waste from federal programs.(read more)
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said it plans to release names of U. S. nuclear reactors that have installed components produced by the Le Creusot forge in France, a source of components that has been at the center of the controversy regarding falsified documents about parts installed in power plants.(read more)
---Press Release---L3 MAPPS announced today that it has received an order from Instituto Nacional de Electricidad y EnergÃas Limpias (INEEL) to support the modernization of the Laguna Verde full scope simulator for Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE). In the first phase of the project, INEEL will develop a classroom simulator using L3 MAPPS’ Orchid® simulation environment equipped with interactive virtual panels and emergency diesel generator local panels. The overall modernization project will be executed in multiple phases, with the first phase set to complete in the second half of 2017. (read more)
The Columbia Generating Station near Richland, Washington, set a 32-year record for electricity generation in 2016 despite two unplanned outages during the year, Energy Northwest announced Wednesday.(read more)
Canadian nuclear power operator Ontario Power Generation (OPG) said Wednesday it had submitted information to the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change concerning a proposal for a Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) in Kincardine, Ontario, noting that the twice delayed proposal for the target site near Lake Huron remained the company's first choice for the facility.(read more)
Bruce Power began its Life-Extension Program on Jan. 1, 2016, which will see the site operate through 2064. As part of the life extension, the Major Component Replacement (MCR) Project will take place in Units 3-8 beginning in 2020.Some of the major projects include steam generator replacements, feeder replacements, detube / retube, balance of plant projects, and other projects than span for many years to come. Learn more about this massive maintenance program in this Bruce Power video.(read more)
--Press Release--KeySource Thomas Thor, LLCThomas Thor Associates, B.V. and KeySource HCI, LLC announce that as of January 1, 2017 they are merging their nuclear industry business interests in the Americas and forming a new company called KeySource Thomas Thor, LLC. KeySource Thomas Thor will be focused on providing executive recruiting and professional services to the entire life-cycle of nuclear providers in North and South America and will be headquartered in Hudson, OH, USA. (read more)
GE Hitachi announced that it had been awarded a three-year contract by OKG AB to support the dismantling of two reactors at the Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant near Oskarshamn, Sweden.(read more)
Pacific Gas & Electric is considering an appeal of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's white safety status designation issued last week that cited the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant for failing to adequately maintain an emergency core cooling system at the plant in San Luis Obispo County, California.(read more)
Kyushu Electric in Japan restarted Unit 1 ad the Sendai nuclear power plant on Thursday after a fueling and maintenance outage that was extended to provide for a safety review requested by the prefecture...(read more)
The Office of Nuclear Regulation in Britain has granted approval for EDF Energy to begin using a $250 million dry storage facility for spent fuel at the Sizewell B nuclear power station on the Suffolk Coast in eastern Britain.(read more)
Russia has put into operation its first near-surface final nuclear waste repository for solid low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste, National Operator for Radioactive Waste Management (NO RAO) has announced.(read more)
Russian nuclear power conglomerate Rosatom said Wednesday that it had permanently shut down the third operating reactor at the Novovoronezh facility in western Russia on December 25, notching its place in the books as the oldest VVER-440 reactor to enter decommissioning.(read more)
Russian nuclear power conglomerate Rosatom is open to the idea of discussing the purchase of a stake in state-run French company AREAVA, but there is little interest from France in making a deal, said a senior Rosatom official.(read more)
Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, 87, called on his country to embrace the business of nuclear waste storage as a means of helping the country's economy and fighting global warming.(read more)
Pakistan's Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will officially launch the country's fourth nuclear reactor, Chashma C-3, with an inauguration ceremony on Wednesday with a ceremony at the plant in the Punjab province.(read more)