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The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management has successfully completed the hot commissioning testing phase of operations at the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), the agency announced. (read more)

Portland, Oregon-based, small modular reactor developer NuScale Power and the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) said they had executed agreements to facilitate the development of the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP), which will deploy NuScale Power Modules™ at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). (read more)

Ten years following the first concrete pour for Kakrapar Unit 3, the reactor approved in April 2007 has been connected to the grid in India, the Department of Atomic Energy said.(read more)

The UK Space Agency said it had signed a research contract with Rolls Royce to study nuclear power as a more plentiful source of energy, capable of making possible deeper space exploration in the decades to come.(read more)

From the placement of the two-million-pound roof of the Vogtle 4 shield building to receipt of the first nuclear fuel assemblies for Unit 3, Georgia Power touted a list of construction accomplishments at the Plant Vogtle expansion project.(read more)

A new power plant equipment tranche departed Russia on December 29, 2020 with equipment headed for the Kudankulam NPP,. Rosatom announced.(read more)

Rosatom director general Alexei Likhachev in late December announced the nuclear power giant had signed an agreement with the Autonomous Republic of Sakha-Yakutia that opens the door for a small nuclear power plant developed for land-based applications.(read more)

The pilot operation stage at the Belarus NPP unit 1 of III+Gen with VVER-1200 reactor technology began Tuesday, December 22, Russian nuclear giant Rosatom announced. (read more)

A bribery scandal said to be the largest in history for the state of Ohio has prompted a Franklin County judge to slap an injunction on the state’s nuclear power bailout law.(read more)

While site preparation for Finland’s Hanhikivi Unit 1 project continues, energy company Fennovoima said Monday that it had conditionally accepted design documents for Basic Design Stage One submitted by Russian parts supplier RAOS Project, part of Rosatom Corporation.(read more)

The Department of Energy''s Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)) said Tuesday it had selected five teams to receive $30 million in FY20 funding for Risk Reduction for Future Demonstration projects.(read more)

The British government has re-pledged its commitment to a low carbon future with a white paper that supports nuclear power in small modular reactors and in larger plants, media reports indicate.(read more)

Finland’s Olkiluoto Unit 2 reactor can re-connect to the electricity grid after an automatic shutdown incident on December 10 that was graded zero in the grading system of nuclear power plant incidents, said plant operator Teollisuuden Voioma (TVO).(read more)

France’s President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that the country's aircraft career, the Charles de Gaulle, would be replaced in 2038 by a new carrier that would be nuclear powered. It will be the eleventh aircraft carrier commissioned by France. (read more)

French nuclear service company Orano has signed a contract with KHNP (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power) that outlines cooperation in dismantling plant projects, particularly in South Korea and Europe. Orano said this week.(read more)

While testing continues, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has announced that its operating and maintenance subsidiary, Nawah Entergy Company (Nawah) has successfully achieved 100 percent of the rated reactor power capacity for Unit 1 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant.(read more)

The British government this week began the first significant step towards a nuclear fusion power plant by initiating the search for local communities willing to become the home of such a plant, media reports indicate.(read more)

The U.S. National Regulator Commission said Wednesday it had approved a license transfer for Three Mile Island, Unit 2 from FirstEnergy Companies to TMI-2 Solutions.(read more)

Teamed with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, BWXT Technologies Inc. engineers and designers have developed new 3-D printing technologies for the design and manufacture of reactor components made from high-temperature alloys and refractory metals.(read more)

Two municipalities in the Hokkaido prefecture in Japan have agreed to participate in a Japan Nuclear Waste Management (JUMO) sponsored search for a site suitable for a high-level radioactive waste storage facility.(read more)

British corporation Rolls-Royce said Wednesday it had signed a contract with Hinkley Point C for the delivery of safety-critical Bibloc pressure transmitters for the two EPR nuclear reactors currently under construction in Somerset, UK.(read more)

Nawah Energy Company (Nawah), the Joint Venture nuclear operations and maintenance subsidiary and Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), announced Wednesday that the reactor of Unit 1 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant has achieved 80 percent of the Unit 1 reactor’s rated capacity power.(read more)

Charlotte, NC-based NRG confirmed this week that it started a program with Canadian firm Terrestrial Energy with graphite irradiation tests for the High Flux Reactor.(read more)

Russian state-owned corporation Rosatom has notched major shipping milestones at nuclear plants under construction in Turkey and Bangladesh.(read more)

The Republic of Belarus, an eastern-European state with historical ties to Russia, joined the international nuclear-power community with its first VVER-1200 reactor synchronized with the grid on November 3.(read more)

Portland, Oregon-based NuScale Power announced Tuesday engineering efforts had managed to bump the power capacity of its NuScale Power Module up by 25 percent.(read more)

Russia’s state-owned nuclear power giant Rosatom said that the plug had permanently shut down the Leningrad 2 power plant two years after Leningrad 1 was shut down for the last time.(read more)

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has commissioned Japanese experts to independently observe and document the collection of seawater, marine sediment, and fish samples from coastal waters in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.(read more)

A new IAEA publication explores the role of small modular reactors (SMRs), around the globe, calling the plan to custom fit factory-built reactors into niche markets a potential game-changer in the challenge of lowering greenhouse gas emissions.(read more)

Three minutes past noon on November 3., the first commercial nuclear reactor built in Belarus, Ostrovets 1, was connected to the grid, Russian industrial giant Rosatom announced.(read more)

Unit 5 at China's Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant reached a 'critical state' for the first time on Oct 21, indicating that the unit has officially entered a state of operation with power and has taken a significant step towards completion and commissioning.(read more)

The Leningrad II, Unit 2, also called Unit 6 to acknowledge the original four-reactor Leningrad plant, has been connected to the Russian grid and begun, as of October 23, its delivery of electricity to consumers.(read more)

French nuclear service company Altrad said it had been awarded a four-year contract by Magnox Limited to support decommissioning work at six sites in Britain.(read more)

Georgia Power has announced the completion of cold hydro testing for Vogtle Unit 3 at the company's nuclear expansion project near Waynesboro, Ga.(read more)

With $160 million appropriated to two matching grant nuclear projects, the time for dreaming and talking is over, the Department of Energy announced this week.(read more)

Russia’s state-owned nuclear conglomerate Rosatom said this week that the first elements for the reactor building safety system for Taiwan Nuclear Power Plant in China had been delivered.(read more)

Fortum and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have entered into a 3-year cooperation project to create an open source tool for techno-economic modelling of small modular reactor (SMR) projects.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a contract with Eletronuclear to conduct engineering analyses critical to the safety, reliability and long-term life of the Angra 1 nuclear power plant in Brazil.(read more)

French nuclear service company Orano said it had signed several contracts valued at 150 million euros with French utility EDF to provide technical support for the EDF nuclear fleet.(read more)

The first of Koeberg nuclear power station’s long-awaited six new replacement steam generators arrived at the plant yesterday, Eskom said Wednesday.(read more)

U.S.-based Westinghouse Electric Company said Wednesday it had signed a contract with theNational Nuclear Energy Generating Company (NNEGC Energoatom) concerning VVER-440 nuclear fuel for the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant. (read more)

GE Steam Power said Tuesday that it had completed a major steam turbine and generator outage at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant in Romania in only 30 days. The work was completed despite a scheduling setback blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic.(read more)

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced yesterday it has approved Critical Decision 1 for the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) project, a one-of-a-kind scientific user facility that would support research and development of innovative nuclear energy and other technologies.(read more)

Tenex-Japan Co., a subsidiary of TENEX (an organization of ROSATOM), entered into a direct contract with TEPCO Holdings Inc. to carry out a conceptual study in the field of handling radioactive zeolited at the Fukushima Daiichi disaster site.(read more)

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has completed a review of the long term operational safety of Unit 3 at the Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Sweden.(read more)

Service-oriented Amentum, based in Germantown, Maryland, announced Monday that it had been chosen as the lead contractor to work with Fluor and Atckins, in a joint venture called the Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCC), to proceed, beginning October 5, to transition on the $10 billion Central Plateau Cleanup contract at the Hanford legacy site near Richland, Washington.(read more)

After 20 months of suspended operations, Hitachi Global said Wednessday it would "end business operations on the nuclear power plant construction project in the United Kingdom ("Horizon Project"), slated for Wales.(read more)

Two separate typhoons within a four-day span caused the shutdown of six nuclear reactors in Korea, a Korean newspaper reported.(read more)

Technicians at the Volgodonsk branch of JSC (AEM-technology) Atommash have begun work on the final stage of manufacturing of the reactor for Akkuyu NPP under construction in Turkey.(read more)

San Diego-based General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems said Wednesday that it had delivered a design concept of a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) reactor to power future astronaut missions to Mars for a NASA-funded study.(read more)