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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy said Monday that Dominion Energy has agreed to help fund efforts to bring the BWRX-300 small nuclear reactor to market.

Renewable energy could hit the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona with a fatal body blow, plant officials have said.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team conducting a safety review of the Republic of Congo's preparedness for a restart to its research reactor said that the country needed to upgrade safety protocol, training and technical infrastructure to meet global standards.

At the 2018 AtomExpo in Sochi, Russia, the head of Nigeria's Atomic Energy Commission (Nigatom) Simon Pesco Mallam said that Nigeria would have its first nuclear power plant up and running by the mid-2020s.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Thursday that it had completed a three-year, $48.4 million project to revamp its Safeguards information technology system to be more effective in its work to ensure the peaceful uses of nuclear technology.

The Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) has selected Orano TN for the final offload of more than 900 used fuel assemblies contained in the pool of its Fort Calhoun nuclear power station in Nebraska, Orano announced Thursday.

Sweden's Oskarshamn Unit 2, which was shuttered in December 2016, has entered the segmentation phase of dismantling, as of May 14, according to reports.

A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance says that 24 out of 60 nuclear power plants in the United States will be unable to cover operating costs over the next three years and that more plants are likely to close.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that a Pre-SALTO (Safety Aspects of Long Term Operations) team had completed a review mission of the Unit 1 reactor at the Angra Nuclear Power Plant in Brazil, noting that the plant operator had made progress in the field of managing an aging power plant and securing a safe future for continued operations.

--Press Release-- L3 MAPPS announced today that it has won a contract from ENGIE Electrabel to upgrade the Tihange Unit 1 full scope operator training simulator.

Maryland-based GSE Systems Inc. said Tuesday it had received two contracts from Chinese customers to commence in the second quarter of 2018 that have a total value that exceeds $4 million. The projects will continue over the next two years, the company said.

Uganda has taken another step forward in its pursuit of nuclear power for domestic generation, signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the China National Nuclear Corporation that will promote the use of radioactivity for civil projects involving agriculture, medicine and manufacturing.

More than 700 specially manufactured tubes for the steam generators associated with the so-called CAREM project in Argentina – the Central Argentina de Elementos Modulares project – have been delivered to the construction site near the Atucha Nuclear Power Plant, CONUAR announced last week.

Georgia Power on Thursday said that workers had placed the four main step-up transformers inside the Unit 4 transformer bays in the latest announcement of construction milestones at the Vogtle nuclear expansion near Waynesboro, Georgia.

The British government has informed Hitachi Ltd that it would guarantee the loans required to build two new reactors at the Wylfa Newydd site in Wales, Japanese media are reporting, although no official announcement has been made.

Unit 4 at the Ohi nuclear power plant in central Japan will be reactivated Wednesday with expectations that the reactor will return to commercial operations in early June, Kansai Electric Power said on Tuesday.

Maryland-based Centrus Energy Corp. said this week that it is expanding its supply arrangements with French-based Orano Cycle (formerly Areva NC), a global nuclear fuel cycle company.

Virginia-based BWX Technologies said Tuesday that the company had developed an innovative patent-pending neutron capture process that is expected to be market-competitive and enable North American concerns to begin supplying the market with molybdenum-99 critical to many medical procedures.

The first concrete pour for the generation 3+ VVER reactor at the Kursk-II project in western Russia began on April 29, Rosatom said.

Unit 3 at the Hunterston B nuclear power plant in North Ayrshire, Scotland, will remain offline following the discover of cracks in several graphite bricks in the reactor core during a routine inspection, EDF Energy, the plant's operator, said.

IHS Markit, a London-based research firm, warned in a report released Thursday that severe grid stress, plus dire environmental and financial consequences will result from the economic closures of five of the 19 nuclear plants contributing to the PJM Interconnection Energy Market, the world's largest wholesale electricity market that serves all or part of 13 Mid-Atlantic states and Washington, D.C.

NASA and the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced Wednesday that a new nuclear reactor power system capable of providing power for crews or unmanned stations on the Moon, Mars and beyond had been successfully demonstrated.

--Press Release-- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed the first and most intensive phase of review for NuScale Power’s design certification application (DCA).

A major backer of Turkey's second nuclear power plant project, Japanese trading house Itochu, has backed out of the project due to rising costs, according to the Nikkei news service.

A small water leak in the emergency cooling system that posed “no security problems,” according to Belgium's nuclear power regulator, has caused an unexpected shut down of the Doel Unit 1 reactor.