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The Iowa state Senate has voted in favour of allowing utility MidAmerican Energy to increase electric consumer rates so that it can study the feasibility of constructing a nuclear power plant.

Jaco Kriek has resigned as CEO of PBMR Pty Ltd. The announcement comes weeks after South African government funding for the development of the pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) was withdrawn, leaving the company facing large-scale restructuring and cuts of 75% to its 800 staff. Kriek, who has been CEO...

Engineering consultation work is to be carried out by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) towards the completion of two units at Romania's Cernavoda nuclear power plant.

The new fifth unit at India's Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP) entered commercial operation on 4 February, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) announced. The 220 MWe pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) achieved first criticality on 24 November and was connected to the grid on 22...

Westinghouse has opened a pump and motor maintenance and repair centre in Nivelles, Belgium, to serve European nuclear power plant operators. The facility will have an annual repair and refurbishment capacity of more than 20 large motors and ten pumps.

A second reactor has resumed commercial operation at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant. All seven units at the plant were shut down following a powerful earthquake in July 2007.

Taipower is considering uprating the six reactors on Taiwan as well as completing three new ones by 2025.

International Isotopes has submitted its licence application to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for its proposed depleted uranium deconversion and fluorine extraction processing facility in Hobbs, New Mexico. The NRC licence review is expected to take 18-24 months to complete. The facility...

Lithuania has officially begun its search for strategic investors to construct and operate a new nuclear power plant in the country to replace the Ignalina plant, which is due to shut down by the end of the month.

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) will undertake main plant civil works of units 3 and 4 of the Kakrapar nuclear power plant after a contract award. It is also celebrating the installation of the pressure vessel of the country's fast reactor prototype.

Two reactors at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania could operate into the 2040s after new operating licenses were granted.

The Finnish radiation and safety authority, Stuk, has concluded in a preliminary safety assessment that Fennovoima has the qualifications to construct its proposed nuclear power plant safely and in accordance with Finland's nuclear energy act.

[Reuters, 17 October] The Belgian government has demanded that French utility GdF-Suez agree to a deal on an energy levy for 2009 of up to € 500 million ($748 million) by 22 October. Belgium is demanding the payment of a levy of € 250 million ($374 million) for the operation of GdF-Suez's Belgian...

France's nuclear regulator has suspended decommissioning operations and castigated a plant operator after discovering that plutonium inventory was much higher than thought.

Lithuania has been negotiating electricity supply contracts with neighbouring countries to help cover supplies after the closure of the Ignalina nuclear power plant at the end of 2009.

Within a day of the United Nations Security Council passing its first comprehensive action on nuclear issues since the mid-1990s, Iran has admitted it has been building a new uranium enrichment plant.

Reactors shut down safely at Japan's Hamaoka nuclear power plant this morning as the Shizuoka region was hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake.