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In a preliminary response to the Tennessee Valley Authority's early site permit application concerning a small nuclear reactor facility at Clinch River, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that safety mandates could be developed based on scalable system, meaning it would not have to conform with standard-sized emergency planning zones currently mandated for large-scale commercial nuclear power plants.

Cavandish Nuclear said it was testing a new system for mapping radioactive hotspots in a decommissioning project with technology that “promises to transform the decommissioning of redundant nuclear plant.” the company said.

A third Westinghouse Electric Company designed AP1000 reactor in China is now supplying power to the grid, the China National Nuclear Corporation along with partner State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation announced on Friday.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it would send team to the San Onore Nuclear Generatng Station to review an incident that came to light on August 13, after a spent fuel storage canister became stuck while being lowered into an underground storage vault.

Local media near Bradwell, site of the future Bradwell B Nuclear Power Plant of Chinese design, are reporting that the region is already feeling associated economic benefits through work involving preliminary site study work concerning joint French and Chinese project.

The Trump administration's Affordable Clean Energy plan (ACE) designates steps for states to manage performances of power plants with customized on-site targets, a boon to coal-fired power plants. Does this open the door assistance for the struggling nuclear power industry or has the Trump administration effectively thrown nuclear power under the bus?

Engineering and construction giant Bechtel said Thursday that it had been selected as the project manager by Horizon Nuclear Power for the two-reactor project slated for Wales in the United Kingdom.

Russia's Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Georgy Kalamanov disclosed this week that Egypt had hired Russian contractors to construct a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel. The contract includes construction of containers for the spent fuel, as well, Egyptian media reported.

Reston, Virginia-based Lightbridge Corporation said last week that officials of the joint venture Enfission LLC had met with officials from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the first time to discuss the development and regulatory licensing of Lightbridge Fuel for the U.S. market.

Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom said Monday that installation of the “core catcher” designed as part of the passive safety systems for the VVER-1200 reactor had commenced at the construction site of the Roopur Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh.

GSE Systems of Columbia, Maryland, said it had been awarded two contracts to update power plant simulators at two separate nuclear facilities. The contracts, the company said, are valued at approximately $8 million.

A critical vote in September by the board members at Oglethorpe Power, owners of 30 percent of the Plant Vogtle expansion project in Georgia, could decide the fate of the project, where Georgia Power recently announced a significant cost escalation compared with previous estimates. Georgia Power said on August 9 that costs had risen with their share of the project jumping from $7.3 billion to $8.4 billion The entire...

Ohio-based FirstEnergy Solutions said Wednesday that it had submitted plans with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission detailing how it would train its staff to begin decommissioning at three of its nuclear power plants – the David-Besse and Perry plants in Ohio and the Beaver Valley Power Station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania.

Electricity generated by nuclear power increased in 2017, notching a gain in production for the fifth consecutive year, the World Nuclear Performance Report 2018 declares. The annual assessment of the nuclear industry worldwide is produced by the World Nuclear Association.

With local government approvals in hand, the Chugoku Electric Company in Japan has sent in its application to the Nuclear Regulation Authority for inspections that would allow the start of the Shimane Unit 3 reactor, putting it on track to be the first new reactor to start up in the county since the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident.

Britain's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has awarded a three-year contract to National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and Wood to carry out a key research project on fuels for advanced nuclear reactors.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced on August 8 that it would renew Ontario Power Generation Inc.’s (OPG) Nuclear Power Reactor Operating Licence for the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station (PNGS) located in Pickering, Ontario.

Four Westinghouse AP1000 reactor construction projects in China nearing completion continue to pass operational milestones on their way towards commercial operating status, the latest represented by the Sanmen Unit 1 reactor in Zhejiang province that reached 100 percent power on Tuesday.

SNC-Lavalin said it had signed an engineering service contract and a licensing agreement with China’s Third Qinshan Nuclear Power Company Limited (TQNPC) to implement 37M Natural Uranium Equivalent (NUE) fuel, a mixture of depleted and recycled uranium, in Qinshan’s CANDU reactors Units 1 and 2.

A top official with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has said that the federal government is attempting to create a list of power plants that are considered too valuable to lose in the event of any natural or man-made crisis that could threaten the nation's security or the health of its citizens.

Slated to become the second operating VVER-1200 reactor after Novovononezh Unit 6, the Leningrad II Unit 1 reactors has begun the final testing phase for operations, which should be completed in the next two weeks, Rosatom said.

Georgia Power said Wednesday that the anticipated time line for construction at the Plant Vogtle expansion project in near Waynesboro, Ga., had not changed, but that costs of the projects had gone up since the company took over management of the construction site from once-bankrupt Westinghouse Electric Company.

The new turbine installation for Leningrad's Phase II nuclear power plant Unit 2 has been completed, Russia's state-owned nuclear construction company Rosatom said on Monday.

Orano TN, the Orano subsidiary providing used fuel management and transportation services, has been selected by Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Company (WCNOC) to design, build and implement dry fuel storage at the Wolf Creek Generating Station in Kansas, the company said on August 2.

A study commissioned by the British government on financial considerations of small modular reactors said Tuesday that SMR developers should be given subsidies to help the UK stay competitive and independent in energy resourcing.