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Westinghouse Electric Company's Japanese parent Toshiba Corporation has been at the center of financial news this week with sources declaring the company, which is embroiled in a massive accounting scandal, may go so far as to shed itself of its nuclear business in Japan.(read more)

With two 20-year license extensions granted for Braidwood Units 1 and 2 in Illinois, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission puts license extensions granted at 83. There are 11 more license applications for U.S. nuclear power plants pending.(read more)

According to The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board, a group associated with a sponsorship team that includes 16 Nobel Laureates, the globe is, symbolically speaking, three-minutes away from Doomsday, imminently threatened by international conflicts and the threat of climate change.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company announced Wednesday that it had been selected by Sellafield Ltd. To conduct decommissioning activities under two separate Decommissioning Framework Agreements, as part of two consortia, deemed Framework partners by Sellafield Ltd.(read more)

South Carolina Electric & Gas has released a new video clip showcasing construction highlights of 2015 at the V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 construction site.(read more)

Nuclear engineering and construction firm AREVA said that it completed service work on 43 planned power plant outages in the United States in 2015 without an hour of lost time due to worker injury.(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday it would deploy a team of 25 inspectors to conduct a Comprehensive Inspection at Arkansas Nuclear One, the Entergy Operations plant in Russellville, Ark., which is the only nuclear power plant in the country in the regulator's Column 4 status in their operations rating matrix.(read more)

Global energy demand is expected to surge 25 percent between 2014 and 2040, energy giant ExxonMobile said Monday in the lastest release of its annual Outlook for Energy report.(read more)

Exelon Generation, which operates the R.E. Ginna and Nine Mile Point nuclear power plants in New York State, applauded the New York Public Service Commission's decision late last week to include nuclear power in the state's Clean Energy Standard portfolio.(read more)

A federal appeals court in Washington has denied a motion to block the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan, which seeks to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the country's power generation industries by 32 percent over the next 15 years.(read more)

Iran has wasted little time, post Implementation Day, in revving up its efforts to ramp up a nuclear power program for the country that was long considered a destabilizing threat by Western nations, including the United States, the European Union, China and Russia.(read more)

---Press Release---L-3 MAPPS announced today that it has won an order from Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica S.A. (“SNN”), a Romanian-based state-owned utilities company, to upgrade the Cernavodă full scope simulator’s emulation of the plant Digital Control Computers (DCCs). DCC systems are used to monitor and control the major reactor and power plant functions at CANDU* nuclear power plants. The project will start immediately and the upgraded software is expected to be in service on the simulator in the first quarter of 2017. (read more)

U.S.-based NuScale Power, which is developing small modular reactors for commercial and industrial use, said Thursday that the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) in Britain had confirmed that its SMR design could operate with mixed uranium-plutonium oxide fuel (MOX).(read more)

Hitachi Ltd. has announced the formation of a new company in Britain, Hitachi Nuclear Energy Europe, Ltd., which will serve as the lead enterprise in a Tier- 1 joint venture with Bechtel Management Company Ltd. And JGC Corporation (JGC) that will focus on development of the Wylfa Newydd nuclear power plant.(read more)

With an average estimated capacity factor at 91.9 percent, the U.S. nuclear power industry, 99 reactors strong in 2015, notched a record high for the industry last year, the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) has estimated.(read more)

Toshiba Corporation on Monday posted a video of its new remote-controlled crane that is designed to facilitate decommissioning at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.(read more)

The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it would deploy a new 24/7 high-tech monitoring device to monitor uranium enrichment activities at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant in Iran.(read more)

Tom Mundy, executive vice president of program development at NuScale said the Oregon-based Fluor company could have a small modular nuclear power plant up and running in Britain by 2025.(read more)

----Press Release---Valcor Engineering’s Nuclear Group has recently exhibited at both the POWER-GEN International Conference and the AUG/MUG Conference. Both proved to be a great time and an invaluable opportunity to meet with other professionals in the nuclear industry.(read more)

French utility EDF Group and construction corporation AREVA reacted with financial adjustments to a new government benchmark price for the underground radioactive waste storage facility known as Cigeo (Centre Industriel de Stockage Geologique).EDF said it would add $871.24 million in provisions to accommodate the benchmark or reference price that was changed by a Ministry of Ecology order. AREVA said that it would integrate the impact of the revised quote in its 2015 accounts, with an adjustment of $272.26 million.(read more)

Lancaster University and the University of Manchester have confirmed they are working on developing submersible, remote-controlled vehicles that can detect radiation and identify nuclear fuel along with Japanese partners. Lancaster University will work on sensors, while the University of Manchester will work on the vehicle.(read more)

Exelon Corporation said Thursday that the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station's Unit 3 in York County, Pennsylvania, had reached a generation milestone of 1,355 megawatts following successful completion...(read more)

Maryland-based X-energy, which is developing the Xe-100 pebble bed High Temperature Gas-Cooled reactor (HTGR), said Friday that it had been awarded a $6 million grant for 2016 from the Department of Energy...(read more)

Southern Company on Friday said it had been awarded up to $40 million from the Department of Energy (DOE) to “explore, develop and demonstrate advanced nuclear reaction technology.” The...(read more)

Ontario Power Generation (OPG), which announced its $9 billion plan for the refurbishment of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station this week, has secured regional approval from the Ontario Energy Board...(read more)

The State Assembly in Wisconsin approved a bill Tuesday that would effectively end the state's moratorium on new nuclear power plant construction. It took a voice vote to approve the measure, which...(read more)

Georgia Power today marked another year of safe construction and significant milestones at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant expansion site. The new units are currently scheduled to go into service...(read more)

Canadian exploration and mining development company NexGen Energy has announced assay results from additional angled drill holes from what it calls a hightly successful 2015 program on the 100 percent owned Rook I property in the Athabasca Basin. The uranium rich Athabasca Basin is located in northern...(read more)

Ontario Power Generation announced it would refurbish four nuclear power units at the 3,512 MW Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, spending $9 billion ($12.8 billion Canadian) in a project that is expected to guarantee 3,000 jobs per year through 2026. The investment is expected to add $10.4 billion...(read more)

The year 2015 was a significant one for construction progress at the Vogtle Units 3 and 4 project in Waynesboro, Georgia. With the latest quarterly video clip, released late last week, viewers can review the big steps taken through the year -- all within the mission of managing worker safety, while...(read more)

One of the world's most venerable companies celebrated a birthday Friday. Westinghouse Electric Company, among the elite big horses in the nuclear power industry, turned 130 years old. The company, founded by engineer George Westinghouse, who invented the railway air brake, began Jan. 8, 1886....(read more)

Canadian nuclear power innovator Terrestrial Energy said Friday that it had raised $10 million Canadian ($7.1 million) in Series A funding that will help advance its mission of creating Integral Molten Salt Reactors for use in small to modest energy markets. Terrestrial, which recently announced that...(read more)

Energy Northwest, a multi-district energy agency in Washington State has retained Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) to continue to supply fuel for the Columbia Generating Station in Richland, Wa. GNF is a joint venture between General Electric, Toshiba Corporation and Hitachi Ltd., that is led by GE. The...(read more)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday that it had granted pre-emption authority to nuclear facilities in New York and California to allow their security forces to carry certain firearms and related devises. The ruling is in effect, “despite local, state or federal laws and regulations...(read more)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday that it had granted pre-emption authority to nuclear facilities in New York and California to allow their security forces to carry certain firearms and related devises. The ruling is in effect, “despite local, state or federal laws and regulations...(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company said Thursday that its nuclear fuel processing facility in Britain had reached a milestone in Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology. From the small town of Chorley, England, northwest of Manchester, the company said that its Springfields facility had reached the requirements...(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company said Thursday that its nuclear fuel processing facility in Britain had reached a milestone in Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology. From the small town of Chorley, England, northwest of Manchester, the company said that its Springfields facility had reached the requirements...(read more)

A stockpile of plutonium currently in Japanese possession, will be shipped to the United States by the end of March, according to media reports that are touting the shipment as a gesture of non-proliferation goodwill. Japan has about 331 kilograms of plutonium that it will ship to a nuclear facility...(read more)

Nuclear power plant component specialist Curtiss-Wright Corporation said Wednesday that it had been awarded contracts with a potential value of half a billion dollars, including incentives, by Harbin Electric Power Equipment Company Ltd. And Shenyang Blower Works Nuclear Pump Company for the delivery...(read more)

A stockpile of plutonium currently in Japanese possession, will be shipped to the United States by the end of March, according to media reports that are touting the shipment as a gesture of non-proliferation goodwill. Japan has about 331 kilograms of plutonium that it will ship to a nuclear facility...(read more)

Nuclear power plant component specialist Curtiss-Wright Corporation said Wednesday that it had been awarded contracts with a potential value of half a billion dollars, including incentives, by Harbin Electric Power Equipment Company Ltd. And Shenyang Blower Works Nuclear Pump Company for the delivery...(read more)

Energy company Fortum Oyj said Tuesday that it planned extensive upgrades at the Loviisa nuclear power plant in 2016, including turbine generator refurbishment. The plans extend upgrades already begun for safety and production efficiency, the Finnish company said. Both of the Units at the plant were...(read more)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it would commence a special inspection of the Oconee nuclear power station on Tuesday to review concerns over startup transformer cables for the plant's Unit 1 and Unit 3 reactors due to problems that were discovered by a plant operator on Dec. 7. NRC...(read more)

Energy company Fortum Oyj said Tuesday that it planned extensive upgrades at the Loviisa nuclear power plant in 2016, including turbine generator refurbishment. The plans extend upgrades already begun for safety and production efficiency, the Finnish company said. Both of the Units at the plant were...(read more)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it would commence a special inspection of the Oconee nuclear power station on Tuesday to review concerns over startup transformer cables for the plant's Unit 1 and Unit 3 reactors due to problems that were discovered by a plant operator on Dec. 7. NRC...(read more)

The score for the nuclear power industry in 2015 is a gain of two, the World Nuclear Association reported. Across the globe, 10 new reactors began commercial operations, while eight were shuttered for decommissioning. In terms of power, 2015 saw a sizable gain over 2014 with a combined 9497 MWe...(read more)

The score for the nuclear power industry in 2015 is a gain of two, the World Nuclear Association reported. Across the globe, 10 new reactors began commercial operations, while eight were shuttered for decommissioning. In terms of power, 2015 saw a sizable gain over 2014 with a combined 9497 MWe...(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company and CB&I Stone and Webster, announced the completion of the Westinghouse's acquisition of the construction company that specializes in nuclear power plant projects as a division of Chicago Bridge & Iron N.V. Stone & Weber will now reside within a newly...(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company and CB&I Stone and Webster, announced the completion of the Westinghouse's acquisition of the construction company that specializes in nuclear power plant projects as a division of Chicago Bridge & Iron N.V. Stone & Weber will now reside within a newly...(read more)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday said that the independent adjudicatory body, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB), would hold an evidentiary hearing in January in Homestead, Fla., on behalf of Citizens Allied for Safe Energy (CASE) to consider a challenge to license amendments...(read more)