October, 2007

26 Oct (NucNet): Six companies have submitted binding offers for the completion and commissioning of units three and four of Romania’s Cernavoda nuclear power plant. ...read more

26 Oct (NucNet): Areva has signed an agreement with Morocco to develop their cooperation and research initiatives in natural uranium. ...read more

26 Oct (NucNet): A US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) commissioner has highlighted the need for increased global cooperation on nuclear safety, saying nuclear energy can no longer be regarded as a strictly domestic matter for any single country. ...

24 Oct (NucNet): US regulators have started a special inspection at the country’s Byron nuclear power plant into the corrosion of piping in the equipment cooling water system and subsequent leakage from one pipe. ...read more

11 Oct (NucNet): Operating two European pressurised water reactors (EPRs) in the UK could safely use up the country’s entire stockpile of plutonium within the units’ operating lifetimes, the Areva group has told the UK government. ...read more

4 Oct (NucNet): US utilities Exelon and Entergy have become the first companies to sign non-binding letters of intent to contract for uranium enrichment services from GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), it was announced today. ...read more

2 Oct (NucNet): The US Department of Energy (DOE) has completed cooperative agreements with four industry consortia for conceptual design studies for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). ...read more

1 Oct (NucNet): Four cooling towers at the UK’s Calder Hall nuclear power plant in West Cumbria were demolished on 29 September 2007 marking a major step in the decommissioning of the plant. ...read more

1 Oct (NucNet): Florida-based FPL Energy said today that it had completed the purchase of the two-unit Point Beach nuclear power plant in the US state of Wisconsin from the Wisconsin Electric Power Company. ...read more

1 Oct (NucNet): Operations at the UK’s Wylfa nuclear power plant pose no threat to the nearby Republic of Ireland, a new report has confirmed. ...read more