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Novovoronezh - Unit No. 2 at the Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant II, equipped with the VVER-1200 reactor has been brought to minimum controlled power (MCP), Russian builder and designer Rosatom has said.

Dignitaries at the Plant Vogtle expansion project, including U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, celebrated the closing of approximately $1.67 billion in additional Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantees to be applied to the project and watched the top of the containment vessel for Unit 3 hoisted into place.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts today completed a review of long term operational safety at the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Mexico on March 15.

French utility EDF said that the first of three replacement generators for the Gravelines nuclear plant had been delivered, arriving at the plant on March 13, designated for Unit 5 at the facility in northern France.

U.S. small nuclear plant developer NuScale Power said Tuesday it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica SA (SNN SA), a Romanian energy company, aimed at evaluating potential development of small nuclear reactor technology for Romania.

Workers at the Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, Nebraska made it to work just fine over the weekend. But they had to ride a helicopter to get to the plant.

Rosatom engineering division Atomstroyexport and the China National Nuclear Corporation signed contracts for construction of two nuclear power plants and for engineering/design work on two others.

The concrete pouring of the foundation slab of Unit 1 of Akkuyu NPP, first Turkish nuclear power plant completed on March 08, 2019, Russian nuclear project manager Rostatom said this week.

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said Tuesday it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Enusa Industrias Avanzadas, S.A., S.M.E. (ENUSA), defining a framework for collaboration and the exchange of information and expertise in the field of nuclear fuel services.

French nuclear power plant operator EDF has released inspection footage of cracks developing in the graphite bricks of the reactor cores at the two-unit Hunterston B plant in Scotland, explaining the cracks, although growing faster than anticipated, were well within safety standards.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted operators of the Seabrook Station nuclear plant in New Hampshire an extended 20 year operating license.

British industrial giant Rolls Royce is preparing to offload its civic nuclear division, various media sources indicate.

The Tennessee Valley Authority announced a $467 million upgrade project at the Browns Ferry Unit 2 in Athens, Alabama, had begun on March 2.

Russia’s nuclear power giant Rosatom signed two cooperation memoranda with Rwandan officials last week spelling out preliminary steps for the advancement of a domestic nuclear energy program.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has announced the launch of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Versatile Fast Neutron Source, which the DOE calls one of the key projects under the Innovation Capabilities Act of 2017.

Five power companies in Japan with support from various banks are expected to loan the Japan Atomic Power Company $2.6 billion for safety upgrades at the Tokai NPP in advance of a tentative 2023 restart of the No. 2 reactor there.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) said Feb. 28 that the new steam turbine generation systems supplied for the Sanmen and Haiyang nuclear power plants in China had been cleared for operations.

Westinghouse Electric Company said its first Triton 11 fuel assemblies had been delivered to the Olkiluoto NPP in Finland, where they will be loaded into Unit 2 at the plant during the current maintenance and refueling outage.

The first batch of equipment for the upper block level system has been delivered for the second VVER-type power block automated control system at the Leningrad II project, Rosatom subsidiary operating Rosenergoatom said.

Framatome announced this week it had signed a contract to provide fuel fabrication and related services to Unit 2 at Palo Verde Generating Station near Phoenix, Arizona.

The long-delayed Unit 3 at the Olkiluoto NPP in Finland can be granted a permit for operations, although a few technical issues need to be addressed, the country’s nuclear power regulator said. The Finnish Nuclear Safety Authority said on Feb. 25 that the plant that is now 11 years behind schedule was ready to be granted an operating permit. However, a vibration in the pressuriser surge line in the primary circuit...

With $10,000 (or less) of his parent’s money, a 14-year-old boy from Memphis, Tenn., is now being heralded as the youngest person to ever build a fusion reactor.

A House of Representatives oversight committee report from a Democrat-party led Congress, released Tuesday, outlines the Trump administration’s efforts to export nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia, drawing attention to the potential illegality of such an effort, given the plan appears to circumvent Congressional approval.

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French nuclear power utility EDF, majority owned by the French government, said that end-of-year results for 2018 exceeded market forecasts for the company with a gross operating surplus of 11 percent.