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South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G), principal subsidiary of SCANA Corporation (SCANA) (NYSE:SCG), announced today that it will cease construction of the two new nuclear units (Units) at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Jenkinsville, SC and will promptly file a petition with the Public Service Commission of South Carolina seeking approval of its abandonment plan.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a confirmatory order to the Tennessee Valley Authority, which has agreed to an extensive list of corrective actions to address safety conscious work environment issues.

British engineering, research and construction consultancy Amec Foster Wheeler said Friday it had been awarded a $3.8 million contract from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to run a UK Digital Reactor Design partnership.

Westinghouse Electric Company on Friday announced that it will load fuel assemblies containing lead test rods of its accident tolerant fuel solution, EnCoreTM Fuel, in Exelon Generation’s Byron Unit 2 in spring of 2019.

Progress on the Plant Vogtle expansion project in Waynesboro, Ga., continues unabated despite the shift in project management that was granted approval by the Department of Energy on July 27, Georgia Power said on Friday.

With a Memorandum of Understanding signed, officials at the China General Nuclear Power Corp. confirmed that the company is targeting Poland as a potential market for nuclear power exports.

U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics released this week showed that nuclear power plant operators are the highest paying jobs in the country among jobs that do not require a college degree, but the number of openings expected through 2024 are sparse compared to other jobs.

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said Tuesday that technicians had completed Cold Hydrostatic Testing for Unit 2 at the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant located in the Al Dhafra Region of Abu Dhabi.

A new study in the publication Nature Energy says that an increasing number of water basins in Europe could suffer from resource stresses due to global warming, which in turn will strain generation capacities of power plants.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company in Japan (Tepco) has confirmed the discovery of molten debris suspected to include melted and resolifidied fuel at the bottom of the Unit 3 containment vessel at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station.

Eight months after reaching an accord -- the first of its kind for Japan with a country that is not a signer of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -- a landmark agreement between India and Japan on nuclear power cooperation goes into effect Friday.

Horizon Nuclear Power on Thursday said it would partner with Tecnatom, a global nuclear training services provider, as it looks to grow the future operational workforce for the Wylfa Newydd nuclear power plant project in Anglesey, North Wales.

A wind turbine plant in Tillsonburg, Ontario, announced it was closing its doors in 2018, telling 300 employes their jobs would be gone, including 206 who were told to no longer come in for work.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, owner of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station in Japan, has deployed a swimming robot, dubbed the Little Sunfish, that is exploring conditions inside flooded areas of the No. 3 reactor.

Wang Shoujun, president of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said that commercial production of high-temperature, gas-cooled nuclear fuel (HTGR) had begun at the China North Nuclear Fuel processing plant in northern China.

Holtec International and SNC-Lavalin have reached a partnership agreement designed to accelerate Holtec's Small Modular Reactor program “to develop and deply SMR-160 power plants around the world,” the companies said Tuesday.

An interview in Japan given by Tokyo Electric Power Company Chairman Takashi Kawamura is causing a stir, as the chairman said the company is waiting for the government's approval to dump tons of tritium-tainted water into the Pacific Ocean.

Westinghouse Electric Company on Friday said it was partnering with General Atomics to produce an “accident-tolerant” nuclear reactor fuel that would use a ceramic matrix composite cladding that promises to provide enhanced safety characteristics over the currently established metal cladding.

After a series of setbacks and budget overruns, French utility EDF said Thursday that the Flamanville Unit 3 construction project, cleared provisionally by regulators in late June regarding pressure vessel steel integrity, would remain roughly on schedule, naming May 2019 as the first date for grid connection and November of the same year as the date for the unit to reach 100 percent power output.

Westinghouse Electric Company said Thursday that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) had selected the company and university research partners to receive a total of $7.5 million to advance nuclear innovation in several areas.

News that the French government has targeted 17 nuclear reactors – out of the country's 58 operating fleet – for closure by 2025 has meet with resistance similar to that of South Korea, where a nuclear power phase out is planned: Experts are lining up against the idea.

French nuclear engineering and construction firm Areva said Wednesday it had signed a contract with decommissioning specialist NorthStar, a New York-based firm, to break down, package and transport core components of the Vermont Yankee Boiling Water Reactor in Vernon, Vt.

French Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot on Monday said that the country could close 17 nuclear reactors within the next eight years, continuing with a commitment made by the previous national administration to reduce nuclear power from 77 percent to 50 percent of the country's electricity generation mix.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak pointed to a symbolic and logistical completion date for the first unit of Turkey's planned Akkuyu power plant. The minister, responding to reporters, said the first commercial power plant in the country would begin operations in 2023.

Hungary's third International Physical Protection Advisory Service (IPPAS) mission, conducted by the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has been concluded with a report that cited the country's strong commitment to nuclear safety, the watchdog agency said.