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Russian state-owned nuclear power corporation Rosatom said the core melt localization component, also known as the core catcher, had been delivered to the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant construction site in Turkey.(read more)

The K-2 Unit of Karachi nuclear power plant in Pakistan, the first overseas unit to use Hualong One (HPR100) technology, successfully completed its hot functional tests (HFTs) on Sept 4, the China National Nuclear Corporation has announced.(read more)

--Press Release--WizNucleus has been awarded a new Blanket Purchase Contract by South Texas Project (STP). Under this contract, WizNucleus will replace STP’s current Nuclear Plant Security Computer system with WizNucleus’ modern platform. (read more)

In a Georgia Public Service Commission filling at the end of August, Georgia Power said construction for Plant Vogtle’s expansion was 87 percent completed with Unit 3 completion expected in November 2021 and Unit 4 completion expected 12 months later.(read more)

The final stage of the physical launch for the newest VVER-1200 6th power block has been launched at the Leningrad NPP. This is the first time the unit, also designated as Leningrad II Unit 2, has reached the minimum controllable power.(read more)

U.S.-based, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation said Monday it had established a new facility in Salt Lake City to support the development of the company's proprietary Fully Ceramic Micro-encapsulated fuel.(read more)

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) announced on August 19 that technicians had connected the Barakah Unit 1 reactor to the grid, "dispatching its first megawatts of clean electricity to the nation."(read more)

The construction permit for Egypt's first nuclear power plant is likely to be issued in the second half of 2021, according to the Chairman of the country's Nuclear Power Plants Authority Amjad Al-Wakeel.(read more)

Framatome said Tuesday it had signed a contract with Hinkley Point C to supply conventional field instrumentation for the two U.K. EPRs under construction at the nuclear power station located in Somerset, England.(read more)

Southern California Edison technicians have successfully completed fuel transfer operations at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s (SONGS’) with placement of the last of 73 spent nuclear fuel canisters in the Holtec UMAX dry fuel storage system.(read more)

U.S.-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation has contracted with UK-based Howden to design a helium circulator for use in the company's innovative Micro-Modular Reactors. Ultra Safe Nuclear is investing in the best-in-breed Howden submerged helium blowers to maximize heat transfer in the MMR's power plant.(read more)

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced an award of $5.1 million granted to the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) to develop modular-in-chamber electron beam welding capability for a future domestic advanced reactor demonstration project.(read more)

Japanese imports of nuclear fuels has plummeted in recent years, dropping to “close to zero,” one of the country’s top newspapers said.(read more)

Volgodonsk Branch of JSC "AEM-technology" "Atommash" (part of the Rosatom engineering division - "Atomenergomash") completed assembly of controls for the reactor pressure vessel and the local heat treatment of the Steam Generator bottom weld for the "Rooppur" NPP, the company said.(read more)

ASN, the French nuclear safety authority, has posted on line the report of the pre-OSART (pre-operational safety review team) mission which was conducted from 17 June to 4 July 2019 at the Flamanville nuclear power plant (NPP) and concerning Unit 3, the reactor currently under construction.(read more)

Work on the erection and concreting of the reactor building inner containment third layer sections of Rooppur NPP power unit No.1 in Bangladesh has been completed, state-owned conglomerate Rosatom has announced.(read more)

The Jiangsu Nuclear Power Corporation said that Tianwaj Nuclear Power Plant’s Unit 5 had reached first criticality on July 17 this year.(read more)

It was all high fives at the control room for Unit 1 at the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant on Saturday, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation as the unit was turned on. In practical terms, it was the first time in the Middle East that a commercial nuclear reactor was fired up for the first time.(read more)

SNC-Lavalin said this week that it has signed a contract for design, fabrication and deployment of the newly developed PRECISE (Pressure Tube Circumferential Sampling Equipment) tool for Canada's Darlington Nuclear Generating Station starting early 2021.(read more)

U.S. nuclear serve industry firm GE Steam Power, which services around 100 nuclear plant outages per year, announced this week that it has been selected by AtomRemontServis for its first Multi-Year Agreement (MYA) in Ukraine on the Khmelnitskiy and Rivne nuclear power plants.(read more)

The first complete reloading of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for Russia’s BN-800 fast reactor at unit 4 of the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant has been manufactured at the Mining and Chemical Combine (MCC) in Zheleznogorsk, Rosatom fuel-producing subsidiary TVEL said this week.(read more)

Canadian electricity company Bruce Power said Tuesday that it had joined forces with Isogen and BWXT ITG Canada, Inc. (BWXT) in an effort to advance a ‘Made in Ontario’ partnership that will produce isotopes needed "to meet the growing demands of health-care providers in Canada and around the world."(read more)

Russian regulator Rostechnadzor has issued a permit for the pilot operation of unit 1 of the Novovoronezh II plant in an extended fuel cycle mode of 18 months. The reactor has been loaded with fresh nuclear fuel manufactured by the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrate Plant ready for the new cycle.(read more)

State-owned nuclear power concern Rosatom said Monday that the first of 163 nuclear fuel assemblies have been loaded into the VVER-1200 reactor of power unit 2 of Leningrad NPP-2.(read more)

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) in Abu Dhabi said Wednesday that construction at Unit 2 of the four-unit Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant has been completed.(read more)

A thorough refurbishment of Unit 2 at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station has been completed and the unit is now reconnected to Ontario’s electricity grid. Ontario Power Generation announced the unit was now ready to provide "30 more years of reliable, clean, low-cost power to Ontario."(read more)

The China National Nuclear Corporation said this week it had achieved a significant milestone with the completion of first-time fuel loading for Unit 5 at the Tianwan nuclear power plant facility.(read more)

Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected an Ontario-based environmental and engineering company to drill and test initial boreholes as part of site selection for a potential nuclear waste repository in South Bruce. (read more)

A U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis report released this week said that existing nuclear power plants are a valuable source of carbon-free energy and the government should “invest in the next generation of nuclear energy technologies.”(read more)

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) said Tuesday that it has been awarded a contract from Dominion Energy to deliver Radiation Monitoring Systems for the Millstone Power Station, Unit 3 in Waterford, Connecticut.(read more)

Technicians in Belarus have started flushing of active and passive safety systems with the open reactor at Unit 2 of Belarus NPP (the general designer and general contractor is ROSATOM Engineering Division).(read more)

Rosatom announced the signing of a Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with Framatome SAS (France) and GE Steam Power of the United States to cooperate in finding a strategic investor for the Belene Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Bulgaria.(read more)

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said Tuesday that more than $65 million in nuclear energy research awards geared mostly toward university-led projects taking place in 28 different states.(read more)

The new digital instrumentation and control (I&C) systems at the Doel nuclear power plant in Belgium passed the final site acceptance test (SAT), French service company Framatome announced this week.(read more)

The cantilever truss, the second piece of the ‘melt trap’, with the weight of 145 tons and the diameter of over 9 meters, has been installed at its final position, under the reactor vault, at the Kursk NPP-2 second power block, Rosatom said.(read more)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week that it had accepted for review Oklo Power's application to construct and operate a 1.5MW Aurora reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory.(read more)

Westinghouse Electric Company and Guardhat announced Tuesday that they will deliver the first connected worker solution to the nuclear energy industry. (read more)

European industrial services provider Bilfinger announced this week that it had signed two new contracts worth $397.5 million to deliver the design, procurement, supplier management, fabrication and construction...(read more)

Canadian small nuclear power developer Global First Power Ltd. said Tuesday that it had formed a joint enterprise with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) and Ontario Power Generation (OPG) with the goal of building, owning and operating the proposed Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) at the national Chalk River Laboratory site.(read more)

The program to decommission the Bohunice V1 nuclear power plant in the Slovak Republic has achieved a major milestone, with the successful removal of the first reactor pressure vessel that will now permit remote dismantling of the facility, the project's backer said.(read more)

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency today received permission from the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) for changes to reactor installation of the country's high-temperature engineering test reactor, in conformity to the New Regulatory Requirements. This marks the first time restart permission has been granted for a gas-cooled reactor in Japan.(read more)

With a unanimous 4-0 vote, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on May 26 approved a streamlined and more predictable process for licensing advanced light water reactors.(read more)

A report from Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's national newspapers, said that the Kyushu Electric Power Company is closing down operations of the Sendai Unit 2 nuclear power plant for failure to complete a remote-operations safety measure required by the country’s nuclear regulator.(read more)

Core barrel of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for Rooppur NPP (Bangladesh) has been produced at the Volgodonsk branch of JSC “AEM-technology” (a part of machine building subdivision of ROSATOM – Atomenergomash)(read more)

Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom said this week that the floating nuclear power plant in Pevek, in the Chukotka region of the Russian Far East had been fully commissioned following approval by the country's nuclear watchdog Rostechnadzor.(read more)

The coronavirus pandemic has forced a two-month delay on the start up of the Lennigrad II, Unit 2 reactor, pushing the expected start up to April 2010, according to Russian media outlet Kommersant.(read more)

The Volgodonsk branch of AEM Technologies had completed the closing weld that connected the two halves of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) being manufactured for unit 1 of the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh, state-owned Russian nuclear power concern Rosatom said.(read more)

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said Tuesday that Cold Hydrostatic Testing (CHT) at Unit 4 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant had been completed.(read more)

The first batch of low-enriched uranium nuclear fuel has been delivered to the construction site of Belarusian NPP. The Russian-made fuel assemblies are currently being prepared for unloading and inspection, Russia's nuclear giant Rosatom said this week.(read more)

The National Grid ESO in Britain has requested that EDF Energy keep the 1198 MWe Sizewell B reactor on lower output to compensate for decreased demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.(read more)