World Nuclear News

Plans for third reactor at Sendai

2009-01-08T16:50:21Z

A new large reactor could be built on Japan's southern island of Kyushu after plans announced today. A new 1590 MWe reactor could operate at Sendai from 2019....(read more)

EdF orders steam generators from MHI consortium

2009-01-08T16:48:58Z

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and France's Comex Nucléaire, a subsidiary of ONET Technologies, have been awarded a contract by Electricité de France (EdF) to supply six replacement steam generators....(read more)

Exelon extends exchange offer for NRG

2009-01-08T16:44:27Z

Exelon announced that, as of 6 January, shareholders had tendered 106,338,942 shares of common stock of electricity generator NRG Energy in its exchange offer, representing just over 45.6% of all outstanding shares of NRG common stock. John Rowe, Exelon's chairman and CEO, said, "We are very pleased with the momentum our exchange offer is receiving among NRG shareholders." Exelon said that it would extend its exchange offer until 25 February. The company made its offer on 19 October...(read more)

Nuclear in South Korea's climate mitigation plans

2009-01-08T15:38:18Z

National electricity plans to help mitigate climate change announced by the South Korean government include ambitions for nuclear to contribute nearly half the country's electricity generation by 2022....(read more)

New name for part of FPL

2009-01-08T15:21:20Z

Next Era Energy Resources (NEER) is the new name for FPL Energy, the subsidiary of Florida Power and Light Group. The name has been changed to reflect what the firm calls its "clean energy mission."...(read more)

Gravatom becomes part of ONET

2009-01-07T16:39:34Z

The UK-based nuclear engineering company Gravatom Engineering Systems has been acquired by corporate services provider ONET Group to become part of its decommissioning division....(read more)

Zambian project approved, construction decision pending

2009-01-07T16:33:04Z

The environmental impact assessment report for a $200 million uranium project at Zambia's Lumwana copper mine has been officially approved, and a decision on whether to go ahead is expected later this month....(read more)

NRC responds to plant security violations

2009-01-07T16:27:23Z

The US nuclear regulator has proposed fining Exelon Nuclear after security guards were caught napping at its Peach Bottom nuclear power plant. A security worker at Tennessee Valley Authority's Sequoyah site, meanwhile, has been found to have falsified inventory data at the plant....(read more)

Gas fires up nuclear in Europe

2009-01-07T16:21:29Z

A week after Russia's Gazprom cut back gas supply into Ukraine, a growing shortage in Europe has resulted in calls to re-open shut-down nuclear power plants....(read more)

Africa's largest uranium mine gets the go-ahead

2009-01-06T16:21:35Z

The government of Niger has granted French nuclear giant Areva a permit to mine the Imouraren uranium deposit in what will be the country's largest ever industrial project. Mining is due to begin in 2012....(read more)

Contract to build new nuclear at Levy

2009-01-06T16:14:26Z

A construction contract has been signed for a new nuclear power plant in the USA. The deal between Progress Energy and the Westinghouse and Shaw consortium is the third so far for the AP1000 design in the USA....(read more)

EdF finalizes BE takeover

2009-01-06T15:05:08Z

Lake Acquisitions Ltd - a wholly-owned subsidiary of Electricité de France (EdF) - announced that EdF's offer to acquire British Energy (BE) was now wholly unconditional. It said that by 5 January it had received valid acceptances for the ordinary offer and the convertible offer in respect of a total of 1,550,102,522 BE shares, representing in aggregate some 96.44% of the current issued share capital of BE. At the end of December, EdF's offer for BE was approved by European authorities, but...(read more)

B&W completes purchase of NFS

2009-01-06T15:00:46Z

A subsidiary of Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has completed its acquisition of Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) - a provider of specialty nuclear fuels and related services - for an undisclosed sum....(read more)

Preparations to restart Kashiwazaki Kariwa 7

2009-01-06T14:40:10Z

[Yomuiri Shimbun, 6 January] Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) is preparing plans regarding test operation of its shutdown Kashiwazaki Kariwa 7 reactor for submission to the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety agency (Nisa). The reactor, a 1315 MWe boiling water model, has been out of action along with the other six units on site since the July 2007 Niigata offshore earthquake. All the reactors shut down safely on the tremors, but suffered widespread minor damage. Repairs and seismic reinforcement...(read more)

2008: Three reactors shut, ten more begin construction

2009-01-05T16:59:22Z

Three old nuclear power reactors were shutdown worldwide during 2008, while no new units were started up. However, construction started on ten new power reactors, whilst power uprates of several existing plants helped bolster operating capacity....(read more)