Lara Uselding Public Affairs Officer, Region IV   NRC inspectors held a public meeting in Omaha, Neb., on May 17, to share preliminary information from a recent restart readiness inspection at the Fort Calhoun Station, operated by the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD). The plant entered into the NRC’s increased oversight category in 2011 after […]

The Dutch government has confirmed its intention to sell its one-third stake in Urenco, clearing the way for its possible full privatization of the world's second-largest uranium enrichment company. ...read more

Two consortia will now compete for contracts worth BRL3 billion ($1.5 billion) to assemble the nuclear and conventional island of Brazil's Angra 3 after owner Electronuclear re-opened bidding. ...read more

We can settle issues of risk, but we cannot settle fear – at least, not without a great deal of effort. If you are afraid of snakes, you’re afraid of snakes – your snake loving friends won’t understand, but there it is. If you don’t live in a snaky area, the fear will never show itself, but if you do, it may cripple you socially. But in general, people ...read more

24 May (NucNet): Areva has signed a memorandum of understanding with 20 Finnish suppliers, strengthening its commitment to use local industrial and nuclear expertise in its projects in Finland as well as abroad. ...read more

24 May (NucNet): Swedish nuclear plant majority owner Vattenfall is planning to operate its newest nuclear reactor units at Forsmark and Ringhals for up to 60 years thanks to an extensive upgrade programme. ...read more

24 May (NucNet): Relatively stable cooling of fuel and fuel debris in the reactors and spent fuel pools has been established at Fukushima-Daiichi, but there are still “several challenges” to be met before “a sustainable situation” is achieved at the plant ...read more

Finland's energy policy framework - including the expanded use of nuclear energy - paves the way for a more sustainable energy system in the longer term, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). ...read more

Vattenfall has announced it is planning to operate its newest nuclear units at Forsmark and Ringhals for up to 60 years thanks to an extensive upgrade program. ...read more

Stu Reiter Senior Advisor, E-Government   Last August, we noted our efforts in support of President Obama’s May 23, 2012, memorandum on Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People. That memorandum launched a comprehensive Digital Government Strategy to make government services and information available anywhere, anytime, and on any device, and […]

Areva has confirmed that thirteen people have been injured in a terrorist attack at its Somair uranium mine in Niger. The site was the target of one of two simultaneous attacks in the north-west of the country. ...read more

23 May (NucNet): The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is launching a special inspection at Duke Energy’s Shearon Harris nuclear power plant in North Carolina to assess the circumstances surrounding the discovery of a flaw of about 0.6 centimetres on the ...read more

Larry Beahan is conservation chairman of the Sierra Club Niagara Group, so he likely has some tart things to say about nuclear energy. But that’s not his direct goal in his op-ed in the Buffalo News. His purpose is to synopsize and endorse a plan by Cornell Professor Robert Howarth to completely move New York state from fossil fuels and nuclear energy ...read more

Ernest Moniz was sworn in yesterday as the 13th US Secretary of Energy at a ceremony in Washington, DC. ...read more

The first Chinese-made steam generator for an EPR has been completed and is being transported to unit 2 of the Taishan plant in the country's Guangdong province. ...read more