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Fortum and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have entered into a 3-year cooperation project to create an open source tool for techno-economic modelling of small modular reactor (SMR) projects.

Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a contract with Eletronuclear to conduct engineering analyses critical to the safety, reliability and long-term life of the Angra 1 nuclear power plant in Brazil.

French nuclear service company Orano said it had signed several contracts valued at 150 million euros with French utility EDF to provide technical support for the EDF nuclear fleet.

The first of Koeberg nuclear power station’s long-awaited six new replacement steam generators arrived at the plant yesterday, Eskom said Wednesday.

GE Steam Power said Tuesday that it had completed a major steam turbine and generator outage at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant in Romania in only 30 days. The work was completed despite a scheduling setback blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced yesterday it has approved Critical Decision 1 for the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) project, a one-of-a-kind scientific user facility that would support research and development of innovative nuclear energy and other technologies.

Tenex-Japan Co., a subsidiary of TENEX (an organization of ROSATOM), entered into a direct contract with TEPCO Holdings Inc. to carry out a conceptual study in the field of handling radioactive zeolited at the Fukushima Daiichi disaster site.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has completed a review of the long term operational safety of Unit 3 at the Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Sweden.

Service-oriented Amentum, based in Germantown, Maryland, announced Monday that it had been chosen as the lead contractor to work with Fluor and Atckins, in a joint venture called the Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCC), to proceed, beginning October 5, to transition on the $10 billion Central Plateau Cleanup contract at the Hanford legacy site near Richland, Washington.

After 20 months of suspended operations, Hitachi Global said Wednessday it would "end business operations on the nuclear power plant construction project in the United Kingdom ("Horizon Project"), slated for Wales.

Two separate typhoons within a four-day span caused the shutdown of six nuclear reactors in Korea, a Korean newspaper reported.

Technicians at the Volgodonsk branch of JSC (AEM-technology) Atommash have begun work on the final stage of manufacturing of the reactor for Akkuyu NPP under construction in Turkey.

San Diego-based General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems said Wednesday that it had delivered a design concept of a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) reactor to power future astronaut missions to Mars for a NASA-funded study.

Russian state-owned nuclear power corporation Rosatom said the core melt localization component, also known as the core catcher, had been delivered to the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant construction site in Turkey.

The K-2 Unit of Karachi nuclear power plant in Pakistan, the first overseas unit to use Hualong One (HPR100) technology, successfully completed its hot functional tests (HFTs) on Sept 4, the China National Nuclear Corporation has announced.

--Press Release-- WizNucleus has been awarded a new Blanket Purchase Contract by South Texas Project (STP). Under this contract, WizNucleus will replace STP’s current Nuclear Plant Security Computer system with WizNucleus’ modern platform.

In a Georgia Public Service Commission filling at the end of August, Georgia Power said construction for Plant Vogtle’s expansion was 87 percent completed with Unit 3 completion expected in November 2021 and Unit 4 completion expected 12 months later.

The final stage of the physical launch for the newest VVER-1200 6th power block has been launched at the Leningrad NPP. This is the first time the unit, also designated as Leningrad II Unit 2, has reached the minimum controllable power.

U.S.-based, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation said Monday it had established a new facility in Salt Lake City to support the development of the company's proprietary Fully Ceramic Micro-encapsulated fuel.

Southern California Edison technicians have successfully completed fuel transfer operations at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s (SONGS’) with placement of the last of 73 spent nuclear fuel canisters in the Holtec UMAX dry fuel storage system.

U.S.-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation has contracted with UK-based Howden to design a helium circulator for use in the company's innovative Micro-Modular Reactors. Ultra Safe Nuclear is investing in the best-in-breed Howden submerged helium blowers to maximize heat transfer in the MMR's power plant.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced an award of $5.1 million granted to the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) to develop modular-in-chamber electron beam welding capability for a future domestic advanced reactor demonstration project.

Japanese imports of nuclear fuels has plummeted in recent years, dropping to “close to zero,” one of the country’s top newspapers said.

Volgodonsk Branch of JSC "AEM-technology" "Atommash" (part of the Rosatom engineering division - "Atomenergomash") completed assembly of controls for the reactor pressure vessel and the local heat treatment of the Steam Generator bottom weld for the "Rooppur" NPP, the company said.