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Lawmakers in South Carolina have asked a state investigative team, the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED), to look into potential criminal aspects of SCANA Corporation and South Carolina Electric and Gas management related to the V.C. Summer nuclear plant expansion project. The two Westinghouse AP1000 reactor expansion project was canceled in late July with SCANA following along with state-owned utility Santee Cooper...

Citing strong interest from the United States and inquiries from Russia and Indonesia, the head of the South Africa Nuclear Energy Corporation (Nesca) said that it was working towards the restart of its pebble bed modular reactor fuel production by sometime next year.

The District Court of Chiba on Friday ruled that the government of Japan did not have to compensate evacuees form the Fukushima area affected by the 2011 triple meltdown at the nuclear power station there, but that the plant's owner, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) was liable.

Alexey Likhachev, the head of Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom outlined the company's long range plans at the International Atomic Energy Agency conference in Vienna Wednesday, calling “energy poverty and worldwide inequality,” among the most daunting challenges facing the industry today.

SCANA Corporation said Thursday that it had been issued a subpoena from the U.S. Attorney's Office in South Carolina for documents related to the canceled expansion project at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station.

The Georgia Public Service Commission on Tuesday voted unanimously to support the continuation of construction at the Plant Vogtle expansion project, the necessary bureaucratic step required to move the project to a viable, secure status after a dramatic month of decision making.

The head of Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom Alexei Likhachev said Tuesday that construction work had begun at Akkuyu in Turkey, a southern city on the Mediterranean Sea that will house the country's first nuclear power plant.

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) announced that the second unit at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in India would be restarted on 7 October, about a month later than prior expectations.

Fennovoima, the nuclear power consortium of Finland, said Monday that it had postponed expectations for a building permit for a Rosatom-built nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki, North Ostrobothnia on the country's western coast for the year 2018.

FirstEnergy Corp. said it had hired contractors to repair two areas of cracks in the outer layer of concrete of the 296-feet tall containment building at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant near Toledo, Ohio, that has been blamed on freezing and thawing conditions during a blizzard in 1978.

Westinghouse Electric Company said Monday that it has signed a contract with Ukraine’s State Enterprise National Nuclear Energy Generation Company Energoatom to deliver important monitoring instrumentation systems to four units at the Zaporizhzhya power plant.

A policy-impacting committee in Japan, the Atomic Energy Commission, on Thursday announced its latest endorsement for the country's energy generation mix. The endorsement calls for a 20 percent target for nuclear power among Japan's generation capacity by 2030.

A new study to be published in the journal of Environmental Science and Technology says that there was no spike in radioactive contamination in salmon, trout or shellfish along the west coast of North American in the years following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station disaster of March 2011. One of the primary concerns in Japan's clean-up efforts following the earthquake- and tsunami-triggered triple...

The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) in Japan held off on granting the Tokyo Electric Power Company clearance to restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant's two units – No. 6 and 7 – this week, but noted that the company (Tepco) was capable of running nuclear reactors.

The China Daily said Tuesday that China National Nuclear Power Company Ltd. (CNNP) would establish a new company based in the province of Hebei that would work towards development of a traveling-wave reactor (TWR) which can theoretically operate for decades using a single fuel load of depleted uranium-238.

Centrus Energy Corp. announced Tuesday that it has signed several new sales contracts in the last three months to supply its utility customers with low-enriched uranium fuel. The total value of the contracts is an estimated $70 million, with deliveries through 2025.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has completed a two-week advisory mission in China that included a review of China's legislative and regulatory framework for nuclear security, as well as on-site inspections of the Fangjiashan Nuclear Power Plant to assess security and physical security systems up close.

Officials in South Korea said Monday that the jury of 500 expected to decided the fate of two nuclear power plants under construction – Shingori Units 5 and 6 near the city of Ulsan – had been formed, taken from a list of 5,981 survey participants who indicated they would be willing to participate in the decision process.

With one of the most severe hurricanes on record aiming to make landfall in Florida by this weekend, Florida Power & Light (FPL) said it would shut down the two nuclear power plants in the storm's path, Turkey Point and St. Lucie.

X Energy and Centrus Energy Corp. said Thursday they had signed a memorandum of understanding to explore collaboration toward production of fuel for advanced nuclear reactors.

A report released by the office of the governor of South Carolina on Wednesday described significant issues with the V.C. Summer nuclear plant expansion project that indicates that completion of the project was an uphill battle, even as of early in 2016, when the report was completed.

Lightbridge Corporation and AREVA NP in North America said Wednesday they had signed a binding Heads of Terms Agreement for a joint venture that sets out conditions for manufacturing and commercializing Lightbridge’s advanced metallic fuel technology.

The Unit 2 AP1000 Westinghouse-designed nuclear reactor at the Sanmen nuclear plant construction project in China is one step closer to completion as the State Nuclear Power Technology Company said that reactor had passed its cold hydrostatic testing on September 2.

Check out the latest Vogtle 3 & 4 nuclear plant construction pictures released by Georgia Power Company.

Members of China's parliament on Friday approved of a new law that enhances the power of the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) as the country's regulator for their nuclear power industry.