Browse by Tags

On Friday, the prime ministers of Japan and Turkey announced a contract to build Turkey's second nuclear plant at Sinop. Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Japan's Shinzo Abe signed a $22 billion contract for Areva and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build four, generation III Atmea pressurized...

Areva executives recently signed a letter of intent with China National Nuclear Corp. to build a nuclear fuel recycling facility in China. Terms of the deal and the potential location for the plant were not announced, but an Areva release said the agreement covers technical specifications, project organization...

Two companies recently announced large orders for spent fuel monitoring equipment following new requirements implemented by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in response to the Fukushima Daiichi accidents. On Friday, Richland, Wash.-based MOHR announced an agreement with the Utilities Service Alliance...

A Japanese newspaper has reported that Turkey and the Areva-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries consortium Atmea plan to build four reactors at the country's Sinop plant. If it goes through, the deal would begin negotiations to construct the first-ever Atmea-1 pressurized water reactors at the second nuclear...

Areva has cut a deal to provide fuel for five Exelon reactors starting in 2016. The contract announced Thursday covers 18 reloads – enough for three refueling cycles at the Dresden and Quad Cities plants in Illinois, plus six refueling cycles at Three Mile Island unit 1 in Pennsylvania. It also...

As the British government and EDF push back another target date for completing negotiations over new reactor construction at Hinkley Point, a prominent former politician has argued that the outcome will have far-reaching consequences for both nuclear power and energy policy in the UK. In an editorial...

Turkey's energy minister denied a recent report in Japanese media that the country had selected Areva and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build a 5,000 megawatt nuclear plant at Sinop. An unnamed Chinese company remains in contention, Taner Yildiz said in a television interview, although Korea Electric...

Among the challenges confronting the nuclear power industry following the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, plant owners began looking for ways to monitor spent fuel pools in the extreme conditions possible during a beyond-design-basis accident. In response, Areva has begun to market a system that can measure...

Areva announced Wednesday that regulators have approved the use of its Arcadia core simulator system in the U.S. The code system helps designers and researchers evaluate core designs and conduct safety analyses. According to an Areva release, the system has access to a worldwide validation database and...

Monday will mark two years since the Japanese tsunami that triggered nuclear plant blackouts and a cascade of emergencies at Fukushima Daiichi. Tokyo Electric Power Co. has kept the three reactors that sustained core damage subcritical and at safe temperatures for more than a year. Nonetheless, the tasks...

Areva will move its U.S. headquarters from suburban Washington to Charlotte, N.C., while adding positions over the next four years. In a release Monday, the French provider of nuclear fuel, components and services said its workforce of 562 in Charlotte will add 130 positions, including those relocated...

Fennovoima announced Monday that it has begun negotiations with Toshiba to build a 1600 megawatt ABWR at its Hanhikivi site, but the company will also consider building a smaller reactor instead. After a year of negotiating with Areva and Toshiba over the construction of a new reactor in northern Finland...

Areva formally opened a new office in Goodyear, Ariz., this week focused on providing services to the STARS Alliance of nuclear plants. The alliance is a group of seven plants (Callaway, Comanche Peak, Diablo Canyon, Palo Verde, San Onofre, the South Texas Project and Wolf Creek) operating pressurized...

Completion of Areva's flagship EPR nuclear plant at Olkiluoto in Finland has been delayed again. On Monday, Finnish power company Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) announced that completion of Olkiluoto 3 will likely be postponed until 2016. It also noted that instrumentation and control design "has...

Westinghouse has sweetened the pot in its bid to build two AP1000 reactors in the Czech Republic, announcing agreements this week that would source the majority of steel for the project from Czech suppliers. Westinghouse, Areva and a Rosatom-led consortium submitted bids to CEZ to expand the Temelin...

Transnuclear has won a key regulatory approval for its new waste cask that will allow larger shipments and can accommodate fuel from Areva's EPR plant design. The TN Long Cask received a certificate of compliance from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Transnuclear announced this week. Operational...

Babcock & Wilcox announced Tuesday that Michael D. Lees, the head of its nuclear energy business unit, will retire in March. Taking his place will be Westinghouse Americas Region President Joseph A. Zwetolitz. Lees will retire after 29 years at B&W, where he started as a stress analyst in the...

A technology center in Virginia plans to install a simulator that will allow researchers to study Generation III+ power reactor systems and how operators interact with them. Areva announced this week that it will provide the Center for Advanced Engineering and Research with a high-fidelity simulator...

The Czech government recently finalized an environmental review that will allow the construction of two new reactors at the country's Temelin nuclear plant. On Friday, the Environment Ministry issued a positive environmental impact assessment for the third and fourth unit at the plant, the Czech...

On Thursday, the Transnuclear subsidiary of French multi-national Areva purchased custom fabricator Columbiana Hi Tech. In a release, Transnuclear CEO Michael McMahon said, "This is an exciting forward-looking step for Transnuclear, strengthening our position in the U.S. market as it increases our...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Areva are planning a joint bid to build the Atmea 1 generation III+ pressurized water reactor in Turkey. The county is soliciting international companies to build reactors at its Sinop site, which will be the second nuclear power complex built in Turkey. Quoting a Turkish...

The Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank that promotes conservative causes, recently uploaded this video to YouTube that argues America's approach to nuclear waste should be more like that of France. After a brief history of spent-fuel policies in the U.S., it includes an overview of Areva's...

Areva Federal Services recently briefed a South Carolina advisory panel about the state's potential options for hosting a facility to store or recycle spent nuclear fuel. In line with the "consent-based" approach recommended by the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future...

UK regulators have granted design approval to Areva's Generation III reactor – a critical milestone in EDF's plans to build new units at Hinkley Point. The UK Environment Agency and Office for Nuclear Regulation announced Thursday that the EPR meets the country's safety standards. According...

Plans to build six Areva EPR units at a new nuclear plant in India took a step forward Thursday. The government announced "in-principle" approval for locating the reactors at the proposed Jaitapur plant, the Economic Times reported. They will be built in cooperation with France. The procedural...