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Stunning pictures and a time-lapse video clip from South Carolina Electric & Gas Company this week demonstrate a significant construction milestone at Unit 2 of the V.C. Summer nuclear power plant, the placement of the reactor vessel for the unit.(read more)

French nuclear power company AREVA, reeling from heavy losses over the past several years, including a $2.2 billion net loss for 2015, announced the initiation of the process for transferring its nuclear fuel cycle activities to NewCo, a new AREVA holding company, as part of its restructuring process.(read more)

Russian nuclear corporation ROSATOM reported Tuesday that representatives of relevant agencies of the Republic of Ghana held the first meeting of the Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) as part of implementation of the Intergovernmental Agreement on the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The meeting was a follow up to the agreement signed on June 2, 2015.(read more)

Horizon Chief Executive Officer Duncan Hawthorne said that the subsidiary of the Japanese firm Hitachi is concerned that $1.57 billion already invested in the proposed Wylfa Newydd nuclear power plant might never see any returns, given the British government's ambivalence over the Hinkley Point C project.(read more)

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said Friday that the first concrete pour had begun ahead of schedule last week for the turbine building for Unit 6 at the Fuqing nuclear power plant.(read more)

---Press Release---L-3 MAPPS announced today that it has signed a service contract with Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power (LHNP) to update the reactor core model on the Hongyanhe Phase I full scope simulator. Service will start immediately, and the updated model is scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2016. (read more)

U.S. regulators on Friday said there were no environmental issues that stood between two reactors at the LaSalle Nuclear Power Plant in Illinois and a 20-year extension on the plant's operating license.(read more)

The second unit at the Kundakulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) near the southern most tip of India was test synchronized to the grid Monday morning, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) announced, noting that connectivity began at 11:17 a.m.(read more)

A think tank in Britain that studies energy issues said Thursday that the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant project is not a necessity for the country.(read more)

The governor of Kagoshima, Japan, has requested that Kyushu Electric Power Company shut down the two operating Sendai reactors in his district in order to have them re-evaluated for safety issues, Kyodo News reported.(read more)

Media reports say Britain's new government under Prime Minister Theresa May is scrutinizing the deal with China in search of a loophole or an escape clause that could allow them to back away from the deal with dignity.(read more)

The French Ministry of Energy announced Wednesday that the government had agreed to compensate state-owned utility Electricite de France (EDF) for the closure of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant, which is the country's oldest and has been under political and pressure aimed at shutting the plant down.(read more)

Citing high costs, the Kuwait Ministry of Electricity and Water is reportedly backing away from the option of pursuing a nuclear power plant, according to Al Bawaba Business.(read more)

Indisputably, drones are terrific at aerial reconnaissance. For domestic purposes, they are also terrific at simply taking photographs from above of a local neighborhood -- maybe a football game or a concert event. Or maybe, as Georgia Power has discovered, a nuclear power plant expansion project.(read more)

Ten days after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission sent a letter outlining corrective actions to be taken at the Westinghouse nuclear fuel facility in Columbia, S.C., the company announced changes in leadership at the plant.(read more)

Moving two million pounds is a bit like moving the mountain to Mohammed. Lifting that much is a bit further beyond the scope of the imagination.But Georgia Power on Monday announced such a feat had been accomplished at the Plant Vogtle project site near Waynesboro, Ga., where teams are constructing Units 3 and 4 at the existing, two-unit nuclear power plant.(read more)

Media reports are indicating that a panel of experts has deemed the ice wall underneath buildings 1-4 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear generating station to be a failure, owing to a critical 1 percent of the wall in which temperatures remains above freezing.(read more)

X-Energy LLC, developers of the Xe-100 “pebble bed” high temperature, gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), said Monday that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Southern Nuclear Operating Company subsidiary Southern Nuclear as a step toward advancement of the small reactor that could help revitalize the nuclear power industry due to the reactor's size and relative affordability.(read more)

Bruce Power said it had received its “best-ever” report card from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, the independent regulator that oversees nuclear facilities.(read more)

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corp. (ENEC), has announced the installation of two Korean-built steam generators at the Unit 3 reactor at the Barakay nuclear plant project.(read more)

Russia's state-owned nuclear power corporation Rosatom said Thursday that the Unit 4 Beloyarsk reactor had reached 100 percent full power for the first time. The reactor, a BN-800 Fast Neutron Reactor is scheduled to enter commercial operation later this year.(read more)

BWX Technologies said Thursday that its subsidiary BWXT Canada Ltd. had entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire all of the shares of the GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Canada Inc. joint adventure.(read more)

Press ReleaseNuScale Power announced today that it will begin its selection of fabrication partners for the NuScale Power ModuleTM with NuFAB. NuFAB will be a one-day, invitation only event for potential supply chain partners on November 3, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. The purpose of the event is to kick-off the selection process for qualified and capable manufacturers who can participate in fabrication of the NuScale Power Module. The event will inform potential module fabrication partners of the selection process and will provide key information with respect to supplier and partner expectations.(read more)

Energy data compiled by the International Energy Agency, a global study group based in Paris, found that world energy production rose 1.5 percent from 2013 to 2014 with much of the gain – 81 percent – coming from fossil fuels. Production among fossil fuels, however, rose 0.5 percent from 2014 to 2015, according to available data, with a 3.1 percent decrease in the use of coal, which was offset by increases in oil and natural gas use, up 3 percent and 1.6 percent, respectively.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said it had sent a Confirmatory Action Letter to the Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Facility in Columbia, S.C., where work has been suspended due to the unexpected accumulation of radioactive material in a scrubber.(read more)

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Company announced its joint filing of the proposal designed to transition California to a post-Fukushima energy future by closing the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, but a group of climate experts, earth scientists and prominent academics have written to Gov. Edmund Brown urging him to put a stop to the proposal that would, they say, derail the state's carbon-emissions goals.(read more)

Following a three-step approval process, the Shikoku Electric Power Company said Friday that it had restarted Unit 3 at the Ikata nuclear power plant, making it the fifth Japanese reactor to revisit criticality following the industry-wide moratorium that was imposed after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear generation station in March 2011.(read more)

Indian and Russia formally commissioned the Kudankulam Unit 1 reactor Thursday with heads of state of each nation pledging a cooperative future with regards to nuclear power.(read more)

Western environmental groups that have attempted to block construction of a 3,000-megawatt nuclear power plant near Green River, Utah, are backing away from a legal battle over water rights, saying this will force project leader Blue Castle Holdings to begin paying for water rights they cannot afford.(read more)

Westinghouse has reportedly shut down or partly shut down its nuclear fuel processing and assembly plant in South Carolina on a voluntary basis following an Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) inspection team's visit to review why an air scrubber had accumulated an excessive amount of uranium-bearing material.(read more)

The Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems group said that it had identified a first choice site for a small modular reactor project to be built in the state of Idaho.(read more)

A municipal government in China representing the coastal city of Lianyungang has suspended preliminary site work for a nuclear waste processing plant after local residents protested the site selection, the municipality's Web site announced.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company said Tuesday that two new power plant modules, CAO3 and CAO2, are now in place for Unit 2 at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station project that is underway in Jenkinsville, S.C.(read more)

Fluor Corporation said Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Energy had extended its contract with the company for management and operations of the Savannah River Site, a nuclear research and material processing facility, near Aiken, S.C., that is run by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), a Fluor-led partnership, together with SN3 Stoller New Port News Nuclear and Honeywell.(read more)

Exelon Generation announced on Tuesday that it had agreed to assume ownership and management of Entergy Corporation's James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba, N.Y., in a deal made possible by the state's recently approved Clean Energy Standard policy that includes subsidies for upstate nuclear power facilities.(read more)

Bolivia's Nuclear Energy Agency (ABEN) and Russian nuclear power corporation Rosatom have signed contracts that officially launches the construction of a $300 million nuclear research and technology center that will advance Bolivia's nuclear power ambitions.(read more)

Operators at the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant in Voronezh Oblast, central Russia, have connected a new unit to the grid with company officials calling the milestone a triumph that sends a signal to other countries about Russia's prowess as an exporter of nuclear power.(read more)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said an agreement with Iran calls for construction of eight nuclear power plants in the country that was recently considered as a threat to expand their nuclear capacities to include an atomic weapons.(read more)

GE Steam Powers System acquisition Alstom Powers System has signed a contract with RAOS Project Ltd., for delivery of a turbine generator set for Fennovoima's Hanhikivi 1 project in Finland, the company said.(read more)

The local prefectural government of Yamaguchi, Japan, on Wednesday approved of a license extension for earthworks for a new nuclear power plant in the district, which is on the southern tip of Honshu Island, the country's longest and premier land mass.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said Wednesday that its staff had completed its Final Safety Evaluation Report for Combined Licenses for two proposed nuclear reactors at the William States Lee III site near Gaffney in Cherkokee County, S.C., concluding there were no safety concerns that would get in the way of a construction and operating license for the project.(read more)

Russian nuclear power company Rosatom confirmed this week that a reactor vessel was involved in a mishap in July during construction of Belarus' first nuclear power plant. Workers apparently failed to secure the reactor shell, which then slipped and hit the ground, although Rosatom's deputy general Alexander Lokshin refused to categorize the incident as a fall that included significant impact.(read more)

Swiss Industrial engineering and manufacturing firm Sulzer has been awarded a contract for the delivery of main feedwater pumps and start-up feedwater pumps that will be installed in two nuclear reactors at the Fangchenggang nuclear power plant project in China.(read more)

British engineering and environment consulting group Amec Foster Wheeler said Tuesday that it had been awarded a continuation of its NuGeneration Limited (NuGen) contract to work on the proposed nuclear power station at Moorside, Cumbria, specifically with preparation of an environmental impact statement for the envisioned facility.(read more)

Exelon Corporation, the Upstate Energy Jobs Coalition and others hailed New York State's new energy policy that tips its hat to both renewable energy sources and nuclear energy, setting a goal of obtaining 50 percent of its electricity from clean and renewable sources by 2030 and allowing for subsidies for nuclear power.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday it was sending an Augmented Inspection Team (AIT) to the Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Plant in Columbia, S.C., to look into why an air scrubber had built up an unexpected amount of uranium-bearing material(read more)

Georgia Power has been granted permission from the state's pubic service commission to spend as much as $99 million on preliminary site work and licensing for a nuclear power plant in the southwest corner of the state.(read more)

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) has issued two tenders for domestic suppliers to contribute to a 1,400 megawatt nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur in Haryana under new rules that have been tweaked to encourage bidding activity that failed to develop two years ago.(read more)

A green light on the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant project for Somerset, England, was thrown back into controversy on Thursday when the British government backed away from what had previously been assumed was full government support for the $27 billion build.(read more)

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) announced Thursday tentative results of a muon examination of Unit 2 at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in eastern Japan.(read more)