April, 2009

30 Apr (NucNet): Westinghouse Electric UK is to acquire a combined 52 percent stake in Japan’s Nuclear Fuel Industries (NFI).

30 Apr (NucNet): British Energy (BE) chief executive officer Bill Coley will be succeeded by Andy Spurr under a transition plan announced by BE’s new owner, Electricite de France (EDF).

25 Apr (NucNet): The operating licence of Areva NP’s US nuclear fuel fabrication facility at Richland in Washington state has been renewed for a further 40 years.

24 Apr (NucNet): Japan has signed a memorandum of understanding on nuclear cooperation with Jordan.

24 Apr (NucNet): The final components have been placed at the construction site of Finland’s fifth reactor unit for the reactor building’s metal containment liner.

23 Apr (NucNet): A business delegation from Sweden has been in India to discuss nuclear power technology and safety management.

23 Apr (NucNet): The Swedish arm of Germany’s E.ON utility is considering proposals to build a replacement reactor unit at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant on Sweden’s east coast.

22 Apr (NucNet): A proposed deal under which Electricite de France (EDF) would buy nearly 50 percent of US utility Constellation Energy’s nuclear generation assets has moved a step closer.

15 Apr (NucNet): The UK government today published a list of 11 potential sites for a first wave of new nuclear power plants in the country and has invited comments from the general public.

15 Apr (NucNet): Russia’s state nuclear energy company Atomenergoprom has confirmed the delivery of the first batch of natural uranium pellets to India under a contract signed in February 2009.

14 Apr (NucNet): Russia and Japan are expected to start a detailed feasibility study into the possible joint construction of a uranium enrichment plant using Russian technology in Japan or a third country.

13 Apr (NucNet): US nuclear regulators say the design of the country’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant would withstand the effects of a potential new fault line off the coast of the state of California.

8 Apr (NucNet): Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev has offered to build a nuclear fuel bank that would hold a reserve of low-enriched uranium (LEU) for nuclear fuel.

8 Apr (NucNet): Taiwan’s six operational reactor units have set a new record, generating a combined total of 40.83 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity (gross) in 2008.

3 Apr (NucNet): Areva is to supply mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies to Japan’s Ohma nuclear power plant under a contract signed today.

3 Apr (NucNet): Studsvik of Sweden has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to transfer its transport services in the US to R&R Trucking.

3 Apr (NucNet): The safety and operating performance of US nuclear power plants remained high in 2008, according to indicators from the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO).

1 Apr (NucNet): Sweden-based utility Vattenfall said yesterday it was ready to expand nuclear power operations in countries that supported the energy source.