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The staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined that foreign ownership could keep Nuclear Innovation North America from pursuing a license for new reactors at the South Texas Project. "On reviewing your application and all other relevant material, including the changes to Part 1 included...

Westinghouse has emerged as the early favorite to build two new reactors in the Czech Republic, although Rosatom remains in the running as Czech utility CEZ continues to study their bids. On Monday, Westinghouse announced that a preliminary ranking placed its proposal to build two AP1000 reactors at...

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...

In a video circulated among employees Tuesday, Westinghouse CEO Daniel Roderick announced the company will cut jobs amounting to roughly five percent of its global workforce. Westinghouse had hired about 5,000 people over the last five years as dozens of new nuclear plants were proposed in the U.S. and...

As it endeavors to be the first firm in the U.S. to license a small modular reactor, Westinghouse on Monday announced a partnership with Kansas City, Mo.-based engineering firm Burns & McDonnell to support its development. “There is no question that nuclear power has to be a bigger player if...

The head of Toshiba recently said the company is in talks to sell a stake as big as 16 percent in Pennsylvania-based pressurized water reactor maker Westinghouse. Toshiba President Norio Sasaki told Dow Jones Thursday that two unnamed companies, along with Chicago Bridge and Iron, have expressed interest...

Leaders from India and Japan have made overtures that they will resume collaboration on civilian nuclear technology. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda discussed the issue at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia last week, the Times of India reported. Japan and...

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Friday that Westinghouse laid off 25 workers and offered early retirement to another 152. Compared to its workforce of 14,000, the job cuts at the Toshiba subsidiary are small, but they nonetheless reflect the challenges facing the nuclear industry. Specifically...

State Nuclear Power Technology Corp - a nuclear company backed by the Chinese government - is in talks to invest $10 billion in the abandoned Horizon nuclear power project in Britain. Horizon, previously a joint venture between German companies E.ON and RWE, planned to build up to three nuclear reactors...

Progress Energy’s Robinson nuclear plant has hired Westinghouse to work on reactor vessel nozzles using an automated, underwater laser technology that’s never been used before at a U.S. plant. In a release Tuesday, Westinghouse said it will conduct the work on dissimilar metal welds on the...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a vote Friday widely expected to approve licenses for two new reactors at South Carolina’s Virgil C. Summer nuclear plant. Scana subsidiary South Carolina Electric & Gas applied for a combined license to build two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors...

Westinghouse announced it will reorganize the business segment responsible for its third-generation AP1000 reactor. In a release Monday, the Toshiba subsidiary said it would split the part of the company responsible for new nuclear power plants into two organizations – one focused on project delivery...

The Department of Energy announced the availability of $452 million in federal funding for small modular reactor research Thursday, and Westinghouse was quick to jump on the chance to further development of its SMR design. The Toshiba subsidiary announced the same day that it would apply for money from...

After successful tests at two U.S. nuclear plants, Westinghouse has entered into an agreement with Newton Labs to use its laser scanning technology. The companies announced this week that Westinghouse will use the scanners for underwater, non-contact, in-vessel dimensioning and surveys worldwide. The...

A South Carolina plant has completed fuel assemblies for the world’s first nuclear plant using Westinghouse’s AP1000 reactor design. On Monday, Toshiba subsidiary Westinghouse announced the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility completed 157 fuel assemblies for Sanmen 1 in China’s Zhejiang...

Despite delays brought on by regulatory changes in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi crisis, Chinese authorities say they still expect to complete the world’s first Westinghouse AP1000 reactor next year. On Saturday, State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation board chairman Wang Binghua...

After 37 years in the nuclear industry, Westinghouse president and CEO Aris Candris announced Monday that he will retire at the end of March. He first joined Westinghouse in 1975 as a senior engineer and has since led the company’s nuclear services and nuclear fuel business units before taking...

Westinghouse's modified AP1000 reactor design seems poised for regulatory approval after the third of five Nuclear Regulatory Commission members voiced his support for approval Wednesday. Commissioner William Magwood IV said he voted to approve the modified design. His vote forms a majority, along...

Enough uranium accumulated in air filters at a North Carolina nuclear fuel plant earlier this year to pose a risk of criticality, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined. While no one was harmed, regulators announced a $17,500 penalty for the incident Tuesday, a fine Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission formally approved GE-Hitachi’s amended Advanced Boiling Water Reactor design Monday, making it the first Generation III reactor to meet the agency’s new standards for aircraft impact resistance. Developed by the now-merged nuclear divisions of General Electric...

USEC Inc. announced yesterday that discussions are ongoing between the Company, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Congress regarding the American Centrifuge project. The American Centrifuge project seeks to deploy an innovative technology developed by DOE and improved by USEC in recent years...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a mandatory hearing on the combined licenses for two proposed reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant – one of the final steps in the regulatory process. On Oct. 12 and Oct. 13, NRC commissioners will evaluate the adequacy of the project’s...

Making good on a promise by the Japanese government earlier this month that the country will continue to promote its nuclear technology abroad, Japan Atomic Energy Co. announced it will help Vietnam study possible reactor construction. On Wednesday, the company said it will conduct a study of the feasibility...

The Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design has passed one of the final steps toward regulatory approval, the company announced Monday. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards has agreed with NRC staff that changes to the reactor’s design allow it to operate...

After winning a contract two years ago to deliver replacement reactor vessel heads to a Swiss nuclear plant, Westinghouse on Wednesday announced a second contract to perform their installation. Valued at $35 million, according to a Westinghouse release, the work will take place on both 730 megawatt...