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The final movement of spent nuclear fuel at the shuttered Kewaunee Power Station in Wisconsin, 35 miles southeast of Green Bay, has been completed, Dominion Energy, the plant's owner, announced Wednesday.

Rosatom used the occasion of the Annual Nuclear Power Exhibition in Moscow this week to sign two more important agreements for nuclear power exportation, signing accords with Uganda and Sudan, Wednesday.a

A report on the nuclear power industry by Bloomberg New Energy Finance analyst Nicholas Steckler says what industry observers have been seeing develop with the advent of natural gas hydrofracking: Nuclear power plants around the country are losing money with the erosion of electricity prices.

The Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection (ORP) and contractor Bechtel National Inc. (BNI) said that employees had “safely completed final assembly of the first melter at Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), also known as the Vit Plant.”

With construction of Turkey's four-reactor Akkuyu nuclear power plant yet to begin, Russian nuclear giant Rosatom on Monday agreed to sell a 49 percent of the project to three Turkish companies.

Russian state-owned nuclear power giant Rosatom has begun to produce nuclear fuel for markets in the United States and Sweden, a Sputnik report announced.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday vowed to upend the energy production mix in the country with a one-two punch: The phase out of nuclear power and a sharp cut back on coal-burning energy plants.

Legislation that returns Yucca Mountain, Nevada, to the front of the line with regards to selection – and implementation – of the nation's federal repository for spent fuel from nuclear power plants passed a House subcommittee's review in Washington on Thursday.

On Thursday, a Japanese industrial group headed by Toshiba revealed a third robot design that will be used to explore the damaged reactor vessels at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station. The swimming robot was quickly dubbed “the Little Sunfish.”

A team of international atomic energy experts conducting a SALTO (Safety Aspects of Long Term Operations) review at the Qinshan Unit 1 nuclear power plant in China has concluded that the plant's operators had made significant progress on ageing management for the unit that was made operational in 1991.

Over the next nine years, six nuclear power plants are expected to close unless economic interventions are put into place to keep at least one of them operating, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Tuesday.

A district court in Japan's Saga Prefecture in the Kyushu region of southern Japan has rejected a request from about 250 citizens to impose an injunction that would prohibit the restart of Kyushu Electric Power's Genkai nuclear power plant.

Westinghouse Electric Company said Tuesday that it had formally launched its accident-tolerant fuel solution called EnCoreTM Fuel. The formal announcement was made during the company’s Fuel Users’ Group Meeting, attended by nuclear fuel customers from around the world.

French engineering and nuclear build company AREVA announced Tuesday that cold functional tests (CFT) had begun at the long-delayed Olkiluoto Unit 3 European Pressurized Reactor under construction in Finland.

South Korea's nuclear power regulator, the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC), has announced approval of the shut down of the country's oldest commercial reactor, Kori 1, a 576 MWe pressurized water reactor that began its commercial operations in 1978.

Southern Company has said it was pleased with the Saturday's news that Toshiba had agreed to pay $3.68 billion that would see the Plant Vogtle expansion project to completion. Construction of the two AP-1000 Westinghouse reactor's at the site in Waynesboro, Georgia, had been managed by Westinghouse, a Toshiba subsidiary that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 29.

--Press Release-- Georgia Power LogoGeorgia Power, the largest electric subsidiary of Southern Company, has entered into a new agreement with Toshiba, the parent company of Vogtle contractor Westinghouse. The agreement, approved by the U.S. Department of Energy, affirms the value of Toshiba's guarantee at $3.68 billion – providing additional protections for Georgia electric customers following Westinghouse's...

Engineering giant Sweco – formerly Swedish Consultants – announced that it had been granted a $23 million contract by the country's nuclear waste management company SKB (Svensk Karnbranslehantering AB) for engineering and safety analysis reports for the future encapsulation plant in Oskarshamn, known as Clink.

The French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) in a preliminary report, says that construction will be allowed to continue at the Flamanville Unit 3 construction project despite anomalies of high carbon concentrations found in steel used for the vessel bottom head of the European Pressurized Reactor.

Southern Company has made their May release of the Vogtle Units 3 & 4 construction progress photographs.

Germany's highest court has declared a tax imposed on nuclear fuel rods, put in place after the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi generation station in Japan, was illegal.

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said that five workers at a research facility in east Japan had been exposed to high levels of radioactivity after a storage bag they were handling burst open.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a motion with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to have the court force the federal government to re-channel its funds and activities towards a spent nuclear fuel (SNF) storage solution at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

The Kansai Electric Power Company reactivated its No. 3 reactor at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Japan Tuesday, initiating control rod removal at 2:00 P.M. local time, media reports indicate. The No. 3 Unit at Takahama is the fifth reactor switched on in Japan following the extended moratorium on nuclear power prompted by the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station northeast of...