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Cavendish Nuclear said Friday it had struck a 10-year deal with EDF Energy to sustain critical infrastructure at two of the French utility’s nuclear power plants in Britain, Heysham Unit 2 and Torness.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, owners of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power disaster site, said it had reached and lifted some of the spent fuel debris at the bottom of the plant’s Unit 2 primary containment vessel (PVC), a critical step towards eventual removal of the highly hazardous material.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power technicians are loading the first batch of fuel into the Unit 4 reactor core at the Shin Kori nuclear power plant in South Korea in a process that began on Feb. 7, the company said.

The Kyushu Electric Power Company said Wednesday that it would not restart Genkai Nuclear Power United No. 2, based on the difficulties associated with bringing the unit up to post-Fukushima Dai-ichi accident safety standards.

The Volgodonsk branch of AEM-technology, the large component manufacturing division of Russian nuclear plant builder Rosatom, said Friday that the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel for Turkey’s first nuclear power reactor at Akkuyu (Unit 1) had been manufactured.

Four new nuclear power plants have been approved in China, according to a Chinese media report, marking the end of a two-year gap in nuclear plant approvals.

Georgia Power's fourth quarter timeline video has been released to the public and includes highlights for 2018, as well as recent progress on the two-reactor expansion project in Waynesboro, Georgia.

Russian nuclear power giant Rostatom has announced progress on both Leningrad Phase II units 1 and 2 recently, noting successful safety tests on Unit 1 and a significant concrete pour for the Unit 2 reactor building.

South Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission has approved of the start of Shin-Kori Unit 4, the regulator said on February 1 following an inspection by the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety.

The second steam generator for China National Nuclear Corporation’s Fuqing Unit 6 has been successfully installed, the company announced.

The fourth International Atomic Energy Agency review of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Generating Station disaster site in Japan concluded that significant progress had been made in contaminated water management and worker safety, but said difficult cleanup challenges remain.

The French nuclear power industry has signed an agreement with labor unions and the French government designed to set goals and broadly defined strategies for the country’s energy future, but only through 2022.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Officer of Environmental Management (EM), charged with addressing the country’s Cold War legacy, said this week that the program to convert uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) into a more stable form had converted more than half of the 9,000 metric ton annual goal for 2019 in just the final quarter of 2018.

Nuclear power services giant Orano Group, formerly Areva, said its logistics division, Orano TN, had concluded a strategic partnership agreement with testing and certification company Bureau Veritas. The agreement is meant to support “the development of maritime transport flows of material from the nuclear cycle,” Orano said.

The nuclear power regulator in Belgium, the Federal Agency for Nuclear Control, has authorized the restart of Doel Unit 2, which is now scheduled for grid connection on February 4, plant operator Engie Electrabel said.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Thursday issued a pared-down version of the new Mitigation of Beyond-Design-Basis Events rules, a 212 page document that spells out the latest safety enhancements required of U.S. nuclear power plants as a reaction to the 2011 meltdown disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant in Japan.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, the nuclear services group partnered by GE with Hitachi in 2007, said Tuesday it had completed the segmentation of reactor internals at Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 in Sweden.

French utility and nuclear plant developer EDF said Tuesday that full pressure and temperature simulations known as hot tests would get underway at the long-delayed Flamanville Unit 3 Pressurized Water Rector (PWR) in the second half of February.

With the results of a successful pilot project behind it, GSE Systems said Tuesday it has been awarded a contract from a major US nuclear operating company to deliver a Data Validation & Reconciliation (“DVR”) solution for the utility’s large fleet of nuclear reactors.

Westinghouse Electric Company has been awarded $93.6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in support of their accident-tolerant fuel program, EnCore fuel, the company said Friday.

Horizon Nuclear Power parent Hitachi Ltd. of Japan and the British government both reaffirmed their commitments to nuclear power Thursday, on the heels of Hitachi’s announcement that the company was pulling away from two large U.K. projects due to failed financial negotiations.

---Press Release--- – Converted simulator is expected to be in service by the third quarter of 2020 – L3 MAPPS announced today that it is under contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. (KHNP) to repurpose the Wolsong Unit 1 (Wolsong 1) CANDU* full scope operator training simulator to become the primary training simulator for Wolsong Unit 3 (Wolsong 3).

Small modular reactor (SMR) developer NuScale, majority owned by Fluor Corporation, said Tuesday it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) to pave the way for a feasibility study to look into SMR deployment in the country.

Operators at the Novovoronezh nuclear plant in Russia said the VVER-440 Unit 4 reactor at the plant reached 100 percent of is rated capacity on January 10 following an extensive upgrade project expected to allow the plant to operated through 2032. In the same week, Rosenergoatom said that its fleet had set new generation records in 201