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French nuclear power supply and engineering contractor Framatome, formerly Areva, said Thursday it would be upgrading the Instrumentation & Control (I&C) system on EDF's 900 MWe reactor fleet in France, a service contract that involves upgrades at 32 reactors.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Monday that it had renewed the operating licence for the Indian Point nuclear power plant Units 2 and 3, located in Buchanan, New York, for operations through April 30, 2024 (for Unit 2) and April 30, 2025 (for Unit 3), respectively.

The British government on Tuesday announced the third funding tranche coming from a $236.6 million nuclear power research and development fund, awarding $4.7 million to a partnership involving Rolls-Royce, The National Nuclear Laboratory, Jacobsen Analytics and two universities.

In a public conference taking place in Vienna concurrent with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 62nd General Conference, Agneta Rising, the head of the World Nuclear Association, challenged the United Nations and the nuclear power industry to counter the threat of climate change with nuclear power.

The board of directors of the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), owners of the retired Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Nebraska have investigated the option of moving decommissioning to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission designated Decon approach, foregoing the Safstor option it had previously indicated would be the approach to take.

The oldest nuclear power plant in the United States, the Oyster Creek Generating Station , nine miles south of Toms River, New Jersey, was taken offline Monday for the final time, making it the seventh nuclear plant to close in the past five years.

French nuclear giant Orano --- formerly Areva – said it had launched its $1.33 billion uranium conversion plant at the Tricastin site in Drome, France, with a ceremony involving 60 international customers and representatives of French and European Union administrations.

U.S.-based Centrus Energy Corp., a nuclear fuel-supply and engineering company, said Monday that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Korean conglomerate Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction to work towards development of the “next generation of commercial nuclear reactors.

Lawsuits filed in Florida and Georgia Wednesday could make or break the Plant Vogtle expansion project where costs were recently estimated to have gone up significantly.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Thursday it would be out in force reviewing safety and security protocols required by several nuclear power plants to prepare themselves for and withstand the blunt force of a powerful hurricane headed towards the southeast coast of the United States.

A storm with 135 mph winds – Hurricane Florence – is potentially threatening as many as sixteen of the nation’s nuclear power plants that sit in its path, according to media reports.

Nuclear engineering and project management concern Nuvia, based in Britain, said it had been awarded a contract to design, supply, integrate and commission plant and equipment for the Dungeness Waste Transfer Area Facility (WTA).

The Bolivian Republic of Venezuela (Venezuela) and the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency have signed a framework accord that covers technical cooperation for the pursuit of nuclear power projects for the years 2018 and 2025.

China National Nuclear Corporation said last week that it had reached a construction milestone at the Karachi nuclear power plant in Pakistan, where workers installed the plant's Unit 3 pressure vessel on Sept. 5. It was the fourth major component lifted into place in the past three weeks.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday that it had approved an indirect transfer of the South Carolina Electric and Gas Company's two-thirds interest in the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Units 1,2, and 3, and the ISFSI – the independent spent fuel storage installation.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said it had complete a infrastructure review for the Republic of Sudan, a nation of 40 million persons that is interested in a domestic nuclear power program for civil purposes.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it would resume a review for an consolidated interim spent fuel storage facility in Andrews County, Texas, on behalf of Interim Storage Partners.

Testing at the Novovoronezh II NPP's Unit 2 has moved from cold testing to hot tests, state-controled Rosatom announced.

The primary contractor for the world's first plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel (MOX) reactor for commercial purposes said Wednesday that it expected a further delay of two years before the facility's first reactor, Ohma Unit 1, would be up and running.

The welding for the basket and high pressure chamber for the sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor under construction at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Russia has been completed, according to a late August announcement from Russia's nuclear power engineering and component developer AEM-Technology.

Nuclear power could contribute significantly to the nation's goals of a low-carbon energy future, but higher costs are undermining that possibility, a report released this week by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said.

Georgia Power has announced the latest construction milestone at the Vogtle nuclear expansion near Waynesboro, Georgia, the placement of the third of four steam generators, this one installed into the Unit 4 nuclear island.

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The Korea Herald said Wednesday that a consortium comprised of Daewoo Engineering & Construction and Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction was chosen for partner with Korea Hydro And Nuclear Power to pursue bids for nuclear power projects anticipated for the Czech Republic and Poland.

Russian nuclear power construction and engineering giant Rosatom said that the first fuel assembly was loaded into the core of Tianwan NPP Unit 4 in China on August 25..