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Sandia National Laboratories said this week that its researchers had built a scaled test assembly that mimics a dry cask storage container for spent nuclear fuel to study how fuel temperatures change during storage and how the fuel’s peak temperatures affect the integrity of the metal cladding surrounding the spent fuel.

SNC-Lavalin and Holtec International group on Friday announced a new US-based joint venture company named Comprehensive Decommissioning International, LLC (CDI) that will focus on decommissioning shuttered nuclear power plants.

Britain's Motex Energy said it had been selected by New Brunswick Energy Solutions Corporation and New Brunswick Power to develop its Stable Salt Reactor Wasteburner (SSR-W) technology for deployment in New Brunswick, Canada. The deployment of the reactor that operates without pumps is now slated for the Point Lepreau nuclear facility. Moltex said the target date for deployment was 2030. In late June, the SSR...

With high ranking government officials on hand, a ceremony was held in Bangladesh this week marking the ‘First Concrete” that is symbolically the start of construction for the Unit 2 of Rooppur Nuclear Power Project.

Orano has signed with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) a ‘Roadmap of Collaboration’ which will set out the way it will work together in advancing civil nuclear decommissioning, clean-up and hazard reduction. Orano

Nuclear solutions company Framatome, owned by EDF (75 percent), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (19.5 percent) and Assystem (5 percent), said it had completed refurbishment of 31 reactor coolant pumps in three southeastern U.S. nuclear energy facilities. The announcement said the work began in 2002 and was completed by June of this year.

Fluor Corporation announced Tuesday that the U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have jointly awarded contracts to Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fluor, to manage the Naval Nuclear Laboratory.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry today announced the selection of nine domestic projects to receive nearly $20 million in funding for cost-shared research and development for advanced nuclear technologies.

Engineering and construction giant Becthel announced it will join forces with GE Hitachi, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Exelon Power Generation Company to investigate efficient ways to develop and build a nuclear power plant using GE Hitachi's BWRX-300 reactors.

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy announced that Russian engineering and construction giant Rosatom had been shortlisted for the next stage of bidding for the country's first nuclear power plants.

Czechoslovakian company SKODA JS said this week that it had finalized negotiations with French company Framatome with a contract to supply two sets of EPR 1600 reactor pressure vessels internals that are slated for the Hinkley Point C. nuclear plant in Somerset, Great Britain.

A report from the Sunday Times in London said that China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) has expressed interest in buying a 49 percent stake in Britain's 15 operating nuclear power reactors.

Advanced Reactor Concepts and ARC Nuclear Canada Inc., collectively ARC Nuclear, and New Brunswick Power (NP) said Tuesday they had agreed to work cooperatively to explore the development, licensing and construction of an advanced small modular reactor (SMR) based on ARC Nuclear’s mature Generation IV sodium-cooled fast reactor technology.

The nuclear power regulator in Bangladesh has granted a license for design and construction of a second reactor at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant that will be constructed by Russia, the state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom said Monday.

Canada's ATS Automation Tooling Systems said it reached a contract extension agreement with Bruce Power valued at CAD $60 million (US $43 million) involving design and delivery of robotic systems for removing and replacing 480 fuel channels and calandria tubes as part of a Bruce Power's Life Extension Program, announced December 2016.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), owner of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Generating Station, said it remained committed to construction of the Higashidori Nuclear Power Plant in Aomori Prefecture, a site where construction of an advanced boiling water began in January 2011.

A report from the Kursk nuclear power plant in European Central Russia – near the Russian-Ukraine border – announced the completion of the base plate for the first of four VVER-TOI reactors planned for Kursk II.

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has cleared the Tokai Unit 2 reactor for a restart, but a resumption of operations is not expected until at least March 2021, when construction of new, post Fukushima Dai-ichi accident safety measures are completed.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection mission to Italy concluded on June 29 with indications that the country has made significant progress in preparing for future dismantling and decommissioning of two nuclear power plants.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it had completed an eight-day inspection mission carried out on behalf of the United Arab Emirates government that focused on infrastructure development that would support its nuclear power ambitions.

The UK Planning Inspectorate said on 29 June that it had accepted Horizon Nuclear Power’s application for the Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant in Wales.

China General Nuclear Corporation (CGN) and French industrial EDF Group announced they had connected the Taishan Unit 1 reactor to the grid, marking a first for the EPR design. The feat was accomplished on June 29, the companies said.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week it had approved the indirect transfer of Westinghouse Electric Co.’s licenses from Toshiba to Brookfield WEC Holdings, Inc., the investment company is reportedly seeking to buy Westinghouse for $4.6 billion.

Westinghouse Electric Company and its customers, China State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) and CNNC Sanmen Nuclear Power Company Limited (SMNPC) announced today that the world’s first AP1000 nuclear power plant located in Sanmen, Zhejiang Province, China, has begun initial connection to the electrical grid.

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) said that it had shut down the medical isotope producing reactor at Lucas Heights in order to repair a mechanical problem that ANSTO said was not related to two recent spills of radioactive material.