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A fourth Westinghouse-designed AP1000 reactor has been connected to the grid in China, the State Power Investment Corporation (***) announced.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it had issued the order approving the transfer of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant operating license from Entergy to NorthStar. The request for the transfer was made in order to allow NorthStar to decommission the plant that ceased operations in December 2014. The plant is currently owned by Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee and operated by Entergy Nuclear Operations, both...

Two Indian 220MWe nuclear power plants reached operational milestones on the same day, setting a national record for days of continuous operations at the Kaiga Unit 1 nuclear plant and a personal best continuous run at the Rajasthan 3 reactor.

With years of losses and a company breakup behind it, French multinational nuclear power specialist Orano said Friday that it would hire 1,500 workers in all phases of its business.

Idaho National Laboratory has announced nearly $3.9 million in funding for 13 university-led projects to develop instrumentation and tools needed to monitor and conduct experiments in a proposed fast spectrum test reactor.

Westinghouse Electric Company and its customers, China State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) and CNNC Sanmen Nuclear Power Company Limited (SMNPC) announced Thursday that the world's first AP1000 plant located in Sanmen, Zhejiang Province, China, is now considered "fully operational."

From 70 to 10 to 1 regional option, Uzbekistan has reportedly opted for Tudakul Lake as the site of its future nuclear power plant.

Technicians at the Vogtle nuclear expansion near Waynesboro, Georgia, have placed the first of four reactor coolant pumps (RCPs) into the Unit 3 containment vessel, Georgia Power has announced.

GE Power said Monday it won the contract to deliver the turbine island equipment for El Dabaa nuclear power plant project in Egypt through AAEM its joint venture with Atomenergomash -- a contract is valued at $700 million.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a final safety evaluation report and standard design approval for Korea Electric Power Corporation and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power’s Advanced Power Reactor 1400 (APR1400), a step that deems the reactor "technically acceptable," but does not fully certify the design.

Russia’s Federation Services for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision, Rostekhnadzor, has licensed Rosatom’s Rostov NPP Unit 4 as approved for commercial operations, the state-owned nuclear plant builder said.

Nuclear fuel and service provider Centrus Energy Corp. said Friday that it had been awarded a $15 million Work Authorization from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for decontamination and decomissioning (D&D) that will focus on preparing the Department’s K-1600 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee for demolition.

Following a leadership summit in India, Russian and Indian leaders signed a pact that could pave the way for a six-reactor construction deal at a site yet to be determined.

The Areva-Siemens consortium building the 1.6 GW Olkiluoto 3 European Pressurized Reactor in western Finland will revisit the timetable for start up in December, taking into account delays in testing, utility-operator Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) said this week.

Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom said Wednesday that Baltijskiy Zavod specialists completed (on October 2, 2018) loading nuclear fuel into the second of two reactors – the portside reactor – of the world-only floating nuclear power plant ‘Akademik Lomonosov’, which is based on the site of FSUE Atomflot in Murmansk.

U.S. Department of Energy has has extended Fluor-BWXT's Portsmouth's cleanup and decommissioning contract at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, Ohio, with a 30-month extension valued at approximately $850 million, BWXT announced.

For forty-one years four cooling towers of the VI nuclear power station in Jaslovske Bohunice in western Slovakia punctuated the skyline. On Monday, the last of the four towers from the original plant was pulled down.

French regulator ASN (Autorite De Surete Nucleaire) chastised the utility EDF this week in a letter that says that certain welds at the nearly completed Flamanville 3 reactor in Normandy have not been monitored correctly, despite previous concerns and earlier mandates to improve oversight.

The five Nuclear Regulation Authority commissioners in Japan have approved of the Japan Atomic Power Company's plans to upgrade safety at the Tokai II single-reactor power plant in late September with a unanimous vote, which could put the company on track for a restart by 2021.

Nuclear reactor developer Transatomic Power, which aimed to create molten-salt reactor and make use of used reactor fuel, said Tuesday that it is shuttering its operations and would open source its intellectual property to other developers.

On 30 September 2018, 14:27 (Beijing time) the reactor plant of Tianwan NPP unit No 4 that is under construction in China with the technical assistance of Rosatom Engineering Division, has been brought to minimum controllable level of power. This is the final stage of the first criticality procedures, Rosatom announced

The head of training at the nearly complete Belarus Nuclear Power Plant in Ostravets said nearly all of the jobs involved in operating Unit 1, scheduled to be operational in the middle of next year, had been filled.

The state of Wyoming in a signing ceremony this month in Cheyenne became the 38th state to be authorized to take over regulatory jurisprudence over certain radioactive materials, in this case oversight of licensing, rulemaking, inspection and enforcement regarding source material involved in uranium or thorium milling and management.

Exelon Corporation on Thursday applauded the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruling that said this week that the state’s Zero Emissions Credit (ZEC) energy strategy did not run afoul of federal statutes.

BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced Friday that its Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (NFS) subsidiary was awarded a contract valued at $505 million for the downblending of 20.2 metric tons of highly enriched uranium (HEU) to produce low enriched uranium (LEU) suitable for use as commercial nuclear reactor fuel and for national defense programs.