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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.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted operators of the Seabrook Station nuclear plant in New Hampshire an extended 20 year operating license.

British industrial giant Rolls Royce is preparing to offload its civic nuclear division, various media sources indicate.

The Tennessee Valley Authority announced a $467 million upgrade project at the Browns Ferry Unit 2 in Athens, Alabama, had begun on March 2.

Russia’s nuclear power giant Rosatom signed two cooperation memoranda with Rwandan officials last week spelling out preliminary steps for the advancement of a domestic nuclear energy program.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has announced the launch of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Versatile Fast Neutron Source, which the DOE calls one of the key projects under the Innovation Capabilities Act of 2017.

Five power companies in Japan with support from various banks are expected to loan the Japan Atomic Power Company $2.6 billion for safety upgrades at the Tokai NPP in advance of a tentative 2023 restart of the No. 2 reactor there.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) said Feb. 28 that the new steam turbine generation systems supplied for the Sanmen and Haiyang nuclear power plants in China had been cleared for operations.

Westinghouse Electric Company said its first Triton 11 fuel assemblies had been delivered to the Olkiluoto NPP in Finland, where they will be loaded into Unit 2 at the plant during the current maintenance and refueling outage.

The first batch of equipment for the upper block level system has been delivered for the second VVER-type power block automated control system at the Leningrad II project, Rosatom subsidiary operating Rosenergoatom said.

Framatome announced this week it had signed a contract to provide fuel fabrication and related services to Unit 2 at Palo Verde Generating Station near Phoenix, Arizona.

The long-delayed Unit 3 at the Olkiluoto NPP in Finland can be granted a permit for operations, although a few technical issues need to be addressed, the country’s nuclear power regulator said. The Finnish Nuclear Safety Authority said on Feb. 25 that the plant that is now 11 years behind schedule was ready to be granted an operating permit. However, a vibration in the pressuriser surge line in the primary circuit...

With $10,000 (or less) of his parent’s money, a 14-year-old boy from Memphis, Tenn., is now being heralded as the youngest person to ever build a fusion reactor.

A House of Representatives oversight committee report from a Democrat-party led Congress, released Tuesday, outlines the Trump administration’s efforts to export nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia, drawing attention to the potential illegality of such an effort, given the plan appears to circumvent Congressional approval.

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French nuclear power utility EDF, majority owned by the French government, said that end-of-year results for 2018 exceeded market forecasts for the company with a gross operating surplus of 11 percent.

Leaders from India and Argentina on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that outlines continued cooperation on domestic nuclear power projects, including the willingness to assist each other on building plants in another country.

Britain’s Radioactive Waste Management (RWM), a division of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, is resurrecting a search for a host community for an underground repository for radioactive materials.

Cavendish Nuclear said Friday it had struck a 10-year deal with EDF Energy to sustain critical infrastructure at two of the French utility’s nuclear power plants in Britain, Heysham Unit 2 and Torness.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, owners of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power disaster site, said it had reached and lifted some of the spent fuel debris at the bottom of the plant’s Unit 2 primary containment vessel (PVC), a critical step towards eventual removal of the highly hazardous material.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power technicians are loading the first batch of fuel into the Unit 4 reactor core at the Shin Kori nuclear power plant in South Korea in a process that began on Feb. 7, the company said.

The Kyushu Electric Power Company said Wednesday that it would not restart Genkai Nuclear Power United No. 2, based on the difficulties associated with bringing the unit up to post-Fukushima Dai-ichi accident safety standards.

The Volgodonsk branch of AEM-technology, the large component manufacturing division of Russian nuclear plant builder Rosatom, said Friday that the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel for Turkey’s first nuclear power reactor at Akkuyu (Unit 1) had been manufactured.

Four new nuclear power plants have been approved in China, according to a Chinese media report, marking the end of a two-year gap in nuclear plant approvals.

Georgia Power's fourth quarter timeline video has been released to the public and includes highlights for 2018, as well as recent progress on the two-reactor expansion project in Waynesboro, Georgia.