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The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) said that it had shut down the medical isotope producing reactor at Lucas Heights in order to repair a mechanical problem that ANSTO said was not related to two recent spills of radioactive material.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics said the Wendlestein 7-X stellarator had broken its previously set record for temperature and plasma density on June 25, confirming its performance capabilities with upgraded components.

Orano, formerly Areva, has signed an agreement with Britain's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) defined as a "roadmap of collaboration’ according to the company, meant to pave the way for cooperation in advancing civil nuclear decommissioning, clean-up and hazard reduction

GE Power said it had begun manufacturing the first rotor for turbines that will be installed at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Bridgewater, Somerset in England. When complete, the Arabelle steam turbines will be among the largest in the world, producing 1770 MWe each and coming in longer than the Airbus 380 model.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced nearly $64 million in awards for 89 advanced nuclear energy technology projects, including awards to 39 U.S. universities in 29 states.

General Electric said Tuesday that it had signed a strategic cooperation agreement for the planned construction of 6 EPR reactors at the Jaitapur site, Maharashtra, India.

Britain's Office of Nuclear Regulation said this week that the release of water at the Sellafield site on March 1 of this year during extremely cold weather included as much as 680 cubic meters (more than 24,000 cubic feet) of water. But the regulator said the estimate of the amount water that became contaminated before it was cleaned up was conservative, even while the effect on the environment was "negligible...

EDF and VEOLIA said Tuesday they had entered a partnership agreement to co-develop remote control solutions for dismantling gas-cooled reactors (natural uranium graphite gas) and for vitrifying radioactive waste, in France and other locations around the globe.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts said Bulgaria is committed to the safe management of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, but recommended changes the country could make for long-term improvements.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Thursday it had begun a Special Inspection at the Clinton nuclear power plant to review the circumstances surrounding problems with the emergency diesel generators at the plant that could not operate for approximately three days during a recent refueling outage.

Westinghouse Electric Company announced two major milestones with its AP1000 reactors under construction in China on Thursday. Among the good news for the company, it was announced, along with China State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) that the Sanmen Unit 1 reactor in Zhejiang Province had obtained its first successfully completed initial criticality, a first for the Westinghouse designed reactor.

Westinghouse and its customers, China State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) and Shangdong Nuclear Power Company Limited (SDNPC) said Thursday that a second AP1000, Haiyang Unit 1, had begun to receive fuel into its core.

Prompted by the high cost of complying with new post-Fukushima Dai-ichi accident safety measures, the Japan Nuclear Regulation Authority on June 13 said it had approved of a decommissioning plan for the Tokai reprocessing plant in Ibaraki Prefecture.

Bruce Power said it had signed a Major Component Replacement Contract with the Shoreline Power Group Consortium, which will be responsible for successfully executing the heart of the company’s multi-year Life-Extension program, which started in 2016.

The Kyushu Electric Power Company has restarted Unit 4 at the Genkai Nuclear Power Plant in the Saga Prefecture of Japan, the company announced.

Eight days after announcing the long-delayed Unit 3 reactor at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in Finland would be ready to enter commercial operations in May 2019, the owner of the plant has said that some re-calibrations were needed and some hot functional testing completed in early June would need to be repeated, delaying the unit's expected operational phase by an additional four months.

A call to solicit interest in small modular reactors (SMR) in Canada has established a strong response from interested parties, the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) said.

President Donald Trump stepped into the debate on securing the national electricity resources by directing grid operators to purchase power from economically troubled nuclear power and coal-fired power plants.

The east African nation of nation of Tanzania is poised to enter the market as a uranium producer, but is holding back until the price of the fissile metal rises, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a news release Monday.

Chen Hua, chairman of the China National Nuclear Power Corporation, has said that the first completed Westinghouse-designed AP1000 reactor would reach first criticality by the end of June and that it remained on track to enter commercial operations status by the end of November, Science Daily reported.

Pacific Gas and Electric, owners of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant n San Louis Obispo County near Los Angeles, have met a legal challenge with a verdict in an California appeals court that will permit continued leasing of the property on which the plant sits.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company said Thursday that it would begin to formulate a plan to decommission the Fukushima Dai-ni nuclear generating station, a four-unit power plant that is the closest power plant to the Fukushima Dai-ichi facility that suffered three reactor meltdowns in 2011.

Westinghouse Electric Company today announced the signing of a contract for manufacture and delivery of boiling water reactor (BWR) fuel to Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant (CNC) in Spain in 2019 and 2021. CNC is wholly owned by Iberdrola Generación Nuclear S.A.

It’s time to put Darlington Nuclear’s Unit 2 reactor back together, Ontario Power Generation announced Tuesday.

Workers outfitted Unit 5 of the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in China with its third and final steam generator as of June 10, the China Nuclear Industry 23 Construction Limited (CNI23) has announced.