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French multinational AREVA is touting the NUHOMS dry cask spent fuel storage and transportation system specifically as an answer to growing concerns of earthquake and flooding accidents in the wake of 2011 seismic and tsunami events that crippled the Fukushima Daiichi power station in Japan. AREVA...(read more)

Anti-nuclear power groups took aim at the proposed North Anna 3 reactor build with 13 organizations submitting a letter to Virginia's Gov. Terry McAuliffe and to members of the state assembly and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The letter was also sent to Dominion Resources, which has proposed...(read more)

Rochester Gas & Electric has submitted a reliability support services agreement to the New York Public Services Commission that proposes a three and a half year reprieve for Exelon Corporation's financially struggling R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Station in Ontario, New York. The agreement, which...(read more)

Sidney, Australia-based CWH Resources, formerly the China West International Holdings Limited, has agreed to buy 60 percent of the share capital of Shanghai KeChao Industrial Limited, a supplier of nuclear grade boric acid. Boric acid is used in reactor coolant and as a soluble reactive control agent...(read more)

DTE Energy Electric Co., owner/operator of the Fermi 2 General Electric Type 4 boiling water reactor in the Frenchtown Charter Township of Michigan, could have a shot at constructing a third reactor at the site, media reports indicate. Early Monday morning, it was reported that Nuclear Regulatory...(read more)

The president of the Tokyo Electric Power Company said that the company was at a crossroads, requiring its first rate hike since 2012 unless it was allowed to restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station, which is one of the world's largest nuclear power plants. TEPCO President Naomi Hirose...(read more)

If you are thinking of applying for a job at Westinghouse Electric or one of its supplier companies, it might be wise to brush up on your Mandarin. This advise is a logic step given statements made by Chief Executive Officer Danny Roderick, who said this week that Westinghouse Electric expects to...(read more)

An international gathering of nuclear power plant regulators in Vienna this week, known as the Convention on Nuclear Safety, did not pass two Swiss proposals that would have added basic language to the convention's pact, which attempts to create a uniform regulatory approach to nuclear power around...(read more)

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority on Thursday endorsed the restart of two more nuclear reactors, the third and fourth to get a regulatory blessing since the country closed down its 48 reactors in the aftermath of the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Kansai Electric...(read more)

Small, modular nuclear power plant developer NuScale Power said it had successfully installed a full-length helical coil steam generator at SIET facilities in Piacenza, Italy. The company, which is based in Portland, Ore., said the HCSG unit will undergo months of testing, which will be conducted...(read more)

If nuclear power is the answer to the most basic of human problems, the need for cheap energy, then Transatomic Power is billing its exploration of molten salt-cooled power plants as the answer to the most basic problems faced by the industry, which are the risks of a meltdown, the accumulation of nuclear...(read more)

The announcement of a Russian-Egyptian nuclear power plant deal on Tuesday provoked a political, rather than a pragmatic, reaction from most media outlets around the world. Although it was noted that Egypt was the most populous Arab country and that it was in an energy crisis, most responses steered...(read more)

A Nuclear Energy Institute study says that the R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant provides western New York with more than just electricity. The nuclear power station that is in jeopardy of closing due to economics that currently favor fossil fuel-burning plants, generates an average annual output of...(read more)

Dallas-based Waste Control Specialists, which has operated a low-level radioactive waste storage facility in West Texas since 2012, said it would pursue permits to build a high-level waste storage facility that could be open by 2020. The company may need Congressional legislation to get paid by the...(read more)

The head of a United Nations team inspecting the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in eastern Japan said that the issue of toxic water build up at the crippled plant was a top concern for TEPCO's decommissioning and cleanup effort. Juan Carlos Lentijo said that TEPCO (the Tokyo Electric Power...(read more)

China's nuclear export involvement in Pakistan came to light over the weekend, as an official of the National Development and Reform Commission revealed the country has assisted Pakistan with "at least six" nuclear reactor build projects. The official, Wang Xiaotao, an NDRC vice minister...(read more)

Tom Fanning, Chief Executive Officer of Southern Company, said in an interview this week that the issues causing delays at the Plant Vogtle expansion project had provoked a reassessment of the company's time line for pushing for new nuclear projects. Georgia Power CEO Paul Bowers said last year...(read more)

A Kyushu Electric Power Company official told Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority that paperwork required for the restart of the mothballed Sendai nuclear power station would be completed by the end of March, while others named June as the target for a restart of the mothballed facility. At an...(read more)