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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday it had launched a special inspection into the failure of a high pressure coolant injection discharge valve on Unit 3 of the Browns Ferry nuclear plant.

Georgia Power on Monday announced a significant and potentially nerve-calming financial milestone, saying that the company had received the first tranche of a settlement from ailing Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, owner of Westinghouse Electric Company, which declared bankruptcy on March 29, 2017.

Westinghouse Electric Company announced Thursday that it has signed an extended Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ukrainian company PJSC Turboatom, in partnership to coordinate and cooperate on increasing the capacity of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants.

South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G), principal subsidiary of SCANA Corporation (SCANA) (NYSE: SCG), announced Wednesday that it, along with Santee Cooper, has sold to Citibank, N.A. (Citibank) all future guaranty settlement payments, due after the October 2017 payment of $150 million ($82.5 million for SCE&G's 55% share) from Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba).

Georgia Power announced Friday that it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a conditional commitment of approximately $1.67 billion in additional loan guarantees for the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project near Waynesboro, Ga.

BWX Technologies, Inc. said Wednesday that its BWSR, LLC joint venture with APTIM has been awarded a two-year extension by Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation (BMPC) that will be inclusive of a $14 million option anticipated to be awarded in 2018.

Westinghouse Electric Company on Wednesday announced they have signed a contract with Jadrová a vyraďovacia spoločnosť (JAVYS) for the dismantling of the reactor coolant systems of two VVER-440 units at the Bohunice V1 Nuclear Power Plant in Slovakia. The project is financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Santee Cooper, owner of 45 percent of the canceled two-reactor expansion project at the V.C. Summer nuclear power plant in Jenkinsville, S.C., said it was considering sale of its portion of a settlement with Toshiba Corporation, the Japanese conglomerate that owns Westinghouse Electric Company.

The government of Japan has approved a revised Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) cleanup plan that delays the start of fuel rod removal from Units 1 and 2 at the crippled plant, but maintains a target of 2018 as the start for removal of stored Unit 3 spent fuel.

Lawmakers in South Carolina have asked a state investigative team, the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED), to look into potential criminal aspects of SCANA Corporation and South Carolina Electric and Gas management related to the V.C. Summer nuclear plant expansion project. The two Westinghouse AP1000 reactor expansion project was canceled in late July with SCANA following along with state-owned utility Santee Cooper...

Citing strong interest from the United States and inquiries from Russia and Indonesia, the head of the South Africa Nuclear Energy Corporation (Nesca) said that it was working towards the restart of its pebble bed modular reactor fuel production by sometime next year.

The District Court of Chiba on Friday ruled that the government of Japan did not have to compensate evacuees form the Fukushima area affected by the 2011 triple meltdown at the nuclear power station there, but that the plant's owner, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) was liable.

Alexey Likhachev, the head of Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom outlined the company's long range plans at the International Atomic Energy Agency conference in Vienna Wednesday, calling “energy poverty and worldwide inequality,” among the most daunting challenges facing the industry today.

SCANA Corporation said Thursday that it had been issued a subpoena from the U.S. Attorney's Office in South Carolina for documents related to the canceled expansion project at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station.

The Georgia Public Service Commission on Tuesday voted unanimously to support the continuation of construction at the Plant Vogtle expansion project, the necessary bureaucratic step required to move the project to a viable, secure status after a dramatic month of decision making.

The head of Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom Alexei Likhachev said Tuesday that construction work had begun at Akkuyu in Turkey, a southern city on the Mediterranean Sea that will house the country's first nuclear power plant.

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) announced that the second unit at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in India would be restarted on 7 October, about a month later than prior expectations.

Fennovoima, the nuclear power consortium of Finland, said Monday that it had postponed expectations for a building permit for a Rosatom-built nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki, North Ostrobothnia on the country's western coast for the year 2018.

FirstEnergy Corp. said it had hired contractors to repair two areas of cracks in the outer layer of concrete of the 296-feet tall containment building at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant near Toledo, Ohio, that has been blamed on freezing and thawing conditions during a blizzard in 1978.

Westinghouse Electric Company said Monday that it has signed a contract with Ukraine’s State Enterprise National Nuclear Energy Generation Company Energoatom to deliver important monitoring instrumentation systems to four units at the Zaporizhzhya power plant.

A policy-impacting committee in Japan, the Atomic Energy Commission, on Thursday announced its latest endorsement for the country's energy generation mix. The endorsement calls for a 20 percent target for nuclear power among Japan's generation capacity by 2030.

A new study to be published in the journal of Environmental Science and Technology says that there was no spike in radioactive contamination in salmon, trout or shellfish along the west coast of North American in the years following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station disaster of March 2011. One of the primary concerns in Japan's clean-up efforts following the earthquake- and tsunami-triggered triple...

The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) in Japan held off on granting the Tokyo Electric Power Company clearance to restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant's two units – No. 6 and 7 – this week, but noted that the company (Tepco) was capable of running nuclear reactors.

The China Daily said Tuesday that China National Nuclear Power Company Ltd. (CNNP) would establish a new company based in the province of Hebei that would work towards development of a traveling-wave reactor (TWR) which can theoretically operate for decades using a single fuel load of depleted uranium-238.

Centrus Energy Corp. announced Tuesday that it has signed several new sales contracts in the last three months to supply its utility customers with low-enriched uranium fuel. The total value of the contracts is an estimated $70 million, with deliveries through 2025.