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Japanese utility Tepco announced to local news media in Japan that the company had begun fuel rod removal from the damaged reactor building No. 3, as of Monday this week.

Slovakian utility Slovenske Elektrame said that unit 3 of the Machovce nuclear plant had completed all of the hot hydro testing and had moved to the next commissioning phase with the final major inspection of the unit.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved of a licensing Orano USA's NUHOMS dry storage systems, that will permit "significantly shorter cooling times—as short as two years—and higher decay heat" the company announced.

Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) announced that fuel loading at the near-completed Olkiluoto 3 reactor, long delayed during construction, will be postponed for about two months.

Some of the evacuees from the town of Okuma, west of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power disaster site, have been invited to return to their homes, which have been declared safe for habitation, Japanese media reports.

Telent Technology Services Ltd in Britain announced this week it had been awarded a six-year contract to supply the communications and IT infrastructure at Hinkley Point C (HPC), slated to be the UK’s first nuclear plant to be built in 25 years.

Operators at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant returned Unit 2 to service April 3 complete with the world’s first full-length test assemblies, known as accident tolerant fuel, containing both pellets and claddings, Southern Nuclear said.

The reinforced frame of the core catcher, weighing 58 tons, and the embedded part for the core catcher, weighing 7.5 tons, have been installed for Unit 2 of the Rooppur NPP in Bangladesh, Rosatom Corporaton's Engineering Division ASE (AtomStroyExport) announced in early April.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission declared Monday there were no environmental impact issues that would prevent the agency from issuing permits for the small modular reactor project at the Clinch River Site in West Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Global First Power (GFP) said this week it had submitted an application for a License to Prepare Site for a potential Micro Modular Reactor project slated for Chalk River Laboratories, a Canadian Nuclear Laboratories facility in Ontario.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said on March 28 it had reached a water storage milestone at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear station disaster site, having completed the transfer of treated water from flange-type tanks to a new welded-style tank.

The U.S. Department of Energy said four projects involving three companies in two states – one in Pennsylvania, three in California – were to receive more than $19,000,000 in cost-sharing support as part of the fourth round of funding in the fiscal year to promote nuclear energy.

Bruce Power announced this week it had completed a harvest of medical-grade cobalt-60, which will be used to diagnose and treat brain and breast cancers.

Cavendish Nuclear has turned over the keys to the newly completed Silos Maintenance Facility on the Sellafield site in Britain, the Nuclear Industry Association reported.

ARC Nuclear Canada, Inc. (ARC Canada), based in Saint John, New Brunswick, said it had entered an agreement with U.S.-based AECOM, a global engineering and construction firm, to continue its development of the Advanced Reactor Concepts ARC-100 technology.

Novovoronezh - Unit No. 2 at the Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant II, equipped with the VVER-1200 reactor has been brought to minimum controlled power (MCP), Russian builder and designer Rosatom has said.

Dignitaries at the Plant Vogtle expansion project, including U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, celebrated the closing of approximately $1.67 billion in additional Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantees to be applied to the project and watched the top of the containment vessel for Unit 3 hoisted into place.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts today completed a review of long term operational safety at the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Mexico on March 15.

French utility EDF said that the first of three replacement generators for the Gravelines nuclear plant had been delivered, arriving at the plant on March 13, designated for Unit 5 at the facility in northern France.

U.S. small nuclear plant developer NuScale Power said Tuesday it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica SA (SNN SA), a Romanian energy company, aimed at evaluating potential development of small nuclear reactor technology for Romania.

Workers at the Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, Nebraska made it to work just fine over the weekend. But they had to ride a helicopter to get to the plant.

Rosatom engineering division Atomstroyexport and the China National Nuclear Corporation signed contracts for construction of two nuclear power plants and for engineering/design work on two others.

The concrete pouring of the foundation slab of Unit 1 of Akkuyu NPP, first Turkish nuclear power plant completed on March 08, 2019, Russian nuclear project manager Rostatom said this week.

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said Tuesday it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Enusa Industrias Avanzadas, S.A., S.M.E. (ENUSA), defining a framework for collaboration and the exchange of information and expertise in the field of nuclear fuel services.

French nuclear power plant operator EDF has released inspection footage of cracks developing in the graphite bricks of the reactor cores at the two-unit Hunterston B plant in Scotland, explaining the cracks, although growing faster than anticipated, were well within safety standards.