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SGT to provide engineering services at Entergy's Waterford 3

SGT, an equal-stake joint venture between URS's Washington Division and Areva NP, has been awarded a contract by Entergy Operations to provide project management, engineering and construction services for the replacement of two steam generators and a reactor vessel head at its Waterford-3 steam electric...

Posted to Contract Awards (Forum) by Highrad on 10-06-2008
Areva's double trouble with EPRs

Delays at Olkiluoto and Flamanville hit the bottom line Reuters reports that French nuclear giant Areva will have to take a significant charge against earnings due to increases in the cost of its EPR under construction at the Olkiluoto site in Finland. At the same time Platts reports that the new nuclear...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-29-2008
Areva to put €20 million into Tricastin improvements

Areva says it will be investing a total of €20 million ($29.6 million) to improve environmental and health monitoring on its Tricastin site and to "settle the balance of its industrial legacy."

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-29-2008
Jordan signs uranium agreement

An agreement on uranium exploration and mining signed by the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission and French nuclear company Areva has been welcomed by the countries' leaders.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-28-2008
Senator James Webb visits Lynchburg, Areva, Babcock and Wilcox and Central Virginia Community College

Senator James Webb, a former Marine who holds an engineering degree "that he did not want" from the US Naval Academy, spent two days in Lynchburg VA (Aug 20, 21) getting an education about their nuclear industry and education programs . He toured Areva's engineering and development center...

Posted to Atomic Insights (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-22-2008
Areva to 'decaffeinate' ash to remove uranium

Areva and the University of Idaho have signed an agreement to develop technology - similar to the process used for removing caffeine from coffee beans - for recovering uranium from incinerator ash from Areva's uranium fuel plant in Richland, Washington state.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2008
New trouble at Olkiluoto

Greenpeace exploits tensions between Areva and Bouygues The Financial Times of London reports that Finland's nuclear safety authority has launched an inquiry into the quality of welding work on construction of the country's fifth nuclear reactor due to be completed in 2011. Reuters reports...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-16-2008
AREVA Affirms No Need to Restart MOX Tests

Recently a pair of antinuclear groups issued a misleading press release calling in question the results of trials of MOX (mixed oxide) fuel lead test assemblies (LTAs) at Duke Energy’s Catawba nuclear power plant . The groups suggest that the tests failed—this is not true. The tests provided AREVA with...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-08-2008
ASN suspends some Socatri operations at Tricastin

France's nuclear regulator, the ASN, has been informed by Areva NC subsidiary Socatri that it has exceeded its annual limit for releases of carbon-14. ASN has ordered the company to suspend all its activities that generate the long-lived radionuclide until the end of 2008.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-07-2008
Areva: no need to repeat MOX trials

Areva has refuted claims that its MOX nuclear fuel assemblies failed in-core tests essential to the US program to use the fuel, which would be made in part from dismantled nuclear weapons.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-06-2008

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