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Media reports from Britain and Japan on Monday were speculating on the possibility that Hitachi was set to pull out of the $20.5 billion Wylfa Newydd nuclear power plant project with several key news outlets concluding that Hitachi’s withdrawal from the project was conclusive.

Entergy Corporation said Friday it had completed the sale of Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee to subsidiaries of NorthStar Group Services, which will decommission the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station site.

Modular light water reactor developer NuScale Power and the business group Ultra Electronics Energy (Ultra) on Thursday unveiled a new safety display and indication system using field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology that represents the first application of FPGA technology for real time display and monitoring in the U.S. commercial nuclear industry.

Westinghouse Electric Company, which emerged from bankruptcy in August, announce the first phase of organizational changes meant to focus the company on its customer base and "strengthen its global services and supply chain management capabilities."

As of January 9, at 4 p.m. in China, a fourth Westinghouse designed AP1000 reactor has reached the critical milestone entering commercial operations status, the industry-acknowledged designation assigned to reactors that have proven themselves through a week of full steam operations.

Russian engineering regulator Glavgosexpertiza has approved of the design documentation for the lead-cooled Brest-OD-300 fast reactor that is slated for the Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC) complex near Tomsk in Russia.

The Kaiga nuclear power plant’s Unit 1 has established a new world record for continuous operations for a nuclear power plant, drawing the new line in the sand at 962 straight days of operations, 21 days beyond the previous record, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India said.

Dominion Energy said Wednesday it had completed the purchase of Scana Corporation, providing symbolic closure to the South Carolina utility’s failed aspirations to construct two AP1000 reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station in Jenkinsville, S.C.

Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom said in December that Unit 4 at the Tianwan NPP in China had begun commercial operations as of 22 December at 3:17 a.m. local time.

No doubt about it: Bill Gates’ annual letter to friends, family, and the entire world says that the United States is falling behind other world powers in the field of nuclear energy and urges leaders to get back “into the game.”

Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) exited the emergency classification level called a “notification of an unusual event” (NOUE) at its Cooper Nuclear Station. NPPD initially declared the NOUE at 9:04 a.m. Saturday after discovering a hazardous gas environment in the basement of the plant. While investigating the gas, safety and plant personnel detected a fire within a pipe chase.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday it had renewed the operating license of the Waterford Steam Electric Station for an additional 20 years, allowing the pressurized water reactor run by Entergy Operations to continue operating through Dec. 18, 2044.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) said it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) along with the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS), and Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) that outlines the department's intention to initiate a potentially 12-module plant that would be constructed at the Idaho National Laboratory under the UAMPS' Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP...

The International Atomic Energy Agency has handed the final report over to Nigeria's Minister of Science and Technology Ogbonnaya Onu related to the country's preparedness to purchase and operate a second research-oriented nuclear reactor, which is expected to be larger than the one already operating in the country.

The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has recommended several steps to Vietnam to develop stronger infrastructure to support development of a multipurpose research reactor the country hopes to have up and running in 2026.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it had renewed the operating license of the River Bend Nuclear Generating Station for an additional 20 years, allowing the plant to operate through Aug. 29, 2045.

Integral Molten Salt Reactor developer Terrestrial Energy announced Thursday that it has signed on BWXT Canada Ltd. for a design services to support development of key components of the company's Generation IV IMSR power plant.

French nuclear services company Framatome is developing a mobile solution to reliably analyze the content of final storage containers of low and medium radioactive waste.

Russia’s Mining and Chemical Combine (MCC) said this week that it had completed the next stage of creating a beta-voltaic power source based on the isotope NI-63 that would effectively lead to a nuclear powered battery with an operational lifespan of 50 years.

French nuclear services and supply company Orana on Thursday announced the testing phase of its new uranium conversion plant at Triscastin in the Rhone Valley had been completed, meaning the plant was now commissioned as an industrial, manufacturing complex.

British nuclear power services company Wood Group said Tuesday it had landed a $66 million, 10-year contract to provide digital controls technologies to the Sellafield nuclear power facility.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday said it had recommended a fine of $232,000 imposed on the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp., after a whistleblower at the Kansas nuclear power plant had been put on paid administrative leave, which the regulator considered an “adverse” response to safety concerns that he raised.

Framatome has successfully completed commissioning for a project to modernize the safety Instrumentation & Control (I&C) system in unit 3 of the Forsmark* nuclear power plant operated by the Swedish utility Forsmarks Kraftgrupp AB, a subsidiary of Vattenfall.

British nuclear power services company Cavendish Nuclear, said it had won the contract to dismantling and demolition Scotland’s oldest nuclear reactor, the Dounreay Materials Test Reactor. The multi-million dollar contract was awarded following a competitive tendering exercise, the company noted.

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said Sunday that Cold Hydrostatic Testing (CHT) had been completed for Unit 3 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in Abu Dhabi, UAE.