August, 2009

27 Aug (NucNet): An early site permit (ESP) and permission to start limited work has been issued for the proposed construction of two AP1000 reactor units at the existing Vogtle nuclear power plant in the US state of Georgia.

27 Aug (NucNet): India and South Korea have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that paves the way for the possible construction of new reactor units in India and related cooperation between the two countries.

26 Aug (NucNet): Unit 6 of Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata prefecture was restarted today, just over two years after a major earthquake hit the area.

25 Aug (NucNet): Two replacement steam generators (RSGs) have been delivered to the Doel-1 nuclear reactor unit in Belgium.

25 Aug (NucNet): The Bayswater Uranium Corporation has signed letters of intent to acquire the Reno Creek Uranium Project in the US state of Wyoming.

21 Aug (NucNet): Regulators have issued three confirmatory orders to the US enrichment corporation USEC’s Paducah facility in the state of Kentucky as part of settlement agreements involving three unrelated issues.

21 Aug (NucNet): The European Commission said on 14 August 2009 that Romanian scientists have developed a new technology for reinforcing the wall of a fusion reactor to resist hot plasma.

21 Aug (NucNet): GDF Suez has signed a contract to acquire a European pressurised water reactor (EPR) engineering simulator.

21 Aug (NucNet): India aims to start construction of two new reactor units at its Kudankulam nuclear power plant within the next year, as the construction and refurbishment of other units is speeded up.

19 Aug (NucNet): Germany’s Nukem group (Nukem GmbH) has signed a contract to sell its Nukem Technologies subsidiary to Russian nuclear vendor Atomstroyexport.

19 Aug (NucNet): Applications to extend the operating licences of two US nuclear power plants by an additional 20 years each have been submitted to regulators.

18 Aug (NucNet): An application for a proposed laser uranium enrichment plant in the US state of North Carolina has been accepted for formal review by nuclear regulators.

18 Aug (NucNet): Before the promise of a nuclear energy renaissance can be fully realised a number of issues need to be resolved and it is “virtually impossible” for any one country to do so alone, the president of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF...

17 Aug (NucNet): The Swiss public “greatly overestimates” the role renewable energy can play in securing the country’s electricity supply, a national survey has shown.

17 Aug (NucNet): Russia’s prime minister Vladimir Putin has approved a draft Russian-Turkish inter-governmental agreement for nuclear energy cooperation.

13 Aug (NucNet): Florida’s Power Plant Siting Board has unanimously approved the site certification application (SCA) which forms part of Progress Energy’s plan to build two new reactor units in Levy County.

11 Aug (NucNet): A fuel handling incident at France’s Gravelines-1 reactor unit has been provisionally rated as level 1 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), the country’s nuclear safety authority has announced.

11 Aug (NucNet): Units 4 and 5 of Japan’s Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka prefecture were automatically shut down earlier today when an earthquake hit the region.

10 Aug (NucNet): Canada-based uranium production company Uranium One says it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100 percent of the Malco Joint Venture from wholly-owned subsidiaries of Areva and Electricite de France.

10 Aug (NucNet): Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has said it wants to encourage a rise in the nuclear share of total electricity generation in the country to around 40 percent.

7 Aug (NucNet): The UK should aim to generate 35 to 40 percent of electricity from nuclear power beyond 2030, according to a report on energy security commissioned by prime minister Gordon Brown.

7 Aug (NucNet): Finland will need additional generating capacity to satisfy increasing demand for electricity over the next 10 to 30 years, according to a new survey of executives in the country’s major industrial companies.

7 Aug (NucNet): An open tender process has been launched for the construction of two additional reactor units at the Czech Republic’s Temelin nuclear power plant.

7 Aug (NucNet): A joint venture company has been formed aimed at evaluating the possible construction of a number of European pressurised water reactor (EPR) units in Italy.

6 Aug (NucNet): US nuclear regulators are proposing stronger oversight by limiting the amount of radioactive material allowed in generally licensed devices.