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ASN, the French nuclear safety authority, has posted on line the report of the pre-OSART (pre-operational safety review team) mission which was conducted from 17 June to 4 July 2019 at the Flamanville nuclear power plant (NPP) and concerning Unit 3, the reactor currently under construction.

Work on the erection and concreting of the reactor building inner containment third layer sections of Rooppur NPP power unit No.1 in Bangladesh has been completed, state-owned conglomerate Rosatom has announced.

The Jiangsu Nuclear Power Corporation said that Tianwaj Nuclear Power Plant’s Unit 5 had reached first criticality on July 17 this year.

It was all high fives at the control room for Unit 1 at the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant on Saturday, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation as the unit was turned on. In practical terms, it was the first time in the Middle East that a commercial nuclear reactor was fired up for the first time.

SNC-Lavalin said this week that it has signed a contract for design, fabrication and deployment of the newly developed PRECISE (Pressure Tube Circumferential Sampling Equipment) tool for Canada's Darlington Nuclear Generating Station starting early 2021.

U.S. nuclear serve industry firm GE Steam Power, which services around 100 nuclear plant outages per year, announced this week that it has been selected by AtomRemontServis for its first Multi-Year Agreement (MYA) in Ukraine on the Khmelnitskiy and Rivne nuclear power plants.

The first complete reloading of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for Russia’s BN-800 fast reactor at unit 4 of the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant has been manufactured at the Mining and Chemical Combine (MCC) in Zheleznogorsk, Rosatom fuel-producing subsidiary TVEL said this week.

Canadian electricity company Bruce Power said Tuesday that it had joined forces with Isogen and BWXT ITG Canada, Inc. (BWXT) in an effort to advance a ‘Made in Ontario’ partnership that will produce isotopes needed "to meet the growing demands of health-care providers in Canada and around the world."

Russian regulator Rostechnadzor has issued a permit for the pilot operation of unit 1 of the Novovoronezh II plant in an extended fuel cycle mode of 18 months. The reactor has been loaded with fresh nuclear fuel manufactured by the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrate Plant ready for the new cycle.

State-owned nuclear power concern Rosatom said Monday that the first of 163 nuclear fuel assemblies have been loaded into the VVER-1200 reactor of power unit 2 of Leningrad NPP-2.

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) in Abu Dhabi said Wednesday that construction at Unit 2 of the four-unit Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant has been completed.

A thorough refurbishment of Unit 2 at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station has been completed and the unit is now reconnected to Ontario’s electricity grid. Ontario Power Generation announced the unit was now ready to provide "30 more years of reliable, clean, low-cost power to Ontario."

The China National Nuclear Corporation said this week it had achieved a significant milestone with the completion of first-time fuel loading for Unit 5 at the Tianwan nuclear power plant facility.

Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected an Ontario-based environmental and engineering company to drill and test initial boreholes as part of site selection for a potential nuclear waste repository in South Bruce.

A U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis report released this week said that existing nuclear power plants are a valuable source of carbon-free energy and the government should “invest in the next generation of nuclear energy technologies.”

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) said Tuesday that it has been awarded a contract from Dominion Energy to deliver Radiation Monitoring Systems for the Millstone Power Station, Unit 3 in Waterford, Connecticut.

Technicians in Belarus have started flushing of active and passive safety systems with the open reactor at Unit 2 of Belarus NPP (the general designer and general contractor is ROSATOM Engineering Division).

Rosatom announced the signing of a Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with Framatome SAS (France) and GE Steam Power of the United States to cooperate in finding a strategic investor for the Belene Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Bulgaria.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said Tuesday that more than $65 million in nuclear energy research awards geared mostly toward university-led projects taking place in 28 different states.

The new digital instrumentation and control (I&C) systems at the Doel nuclear power plant in Belgium passed the final site acceptance test (SAT), French service company Framatome announced this week.

The cantilever truss, the second piece of the ‘melt trap’, with the weight of 145 tons and the diameter of over 9 meters, has been installed at its final position, under the reactor vault, at the Kursk NPP-2 second power block, Rosatom said.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week that it had accepted for review Oklo Power's application to construct and operate a 1.5MW Aurora reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory.

Westinghouse Electric Company and Guardhat announced Tuesday that they will deliver the first connected worker solution to the nuclear energy industry.

European industrial services provider Bilfinger announced this week that it had signed two new contracts worth $397.5 million to deliver the design, procurement, supplier management, fabrication and construction of pipework and specialist equipment for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in the UK. Specifically, Bilfinger UK, Bilfinger Engineering & Technologies and Bilfinger Peters Engineering will be...

Canadian small nuclear power developer Global First Power Ltd. said Tuesday that it had formed a joint enterprise with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) and Ontario Power Generation (OPG) with the goal of building, owning and operating the proposed Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) at the national Chalk River Laboratory site.