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Georgia Power announced Friday that it has contracted with global engineering, construction and project management firm Bechtel to manage daily construction efforts at the Plant Vogtle expansion project. Bechtel will work under the direction of Southern Nuclear, the Southern Company subsidiary which operates the existing units at Plant Vogtle.

Georgia Power today filed a recommendation with the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to continue construction of the Vogtle nuclear expansion near Augusta, Georgia. The project's co-owners, Oglethorpe Power, MEAG Power and Dalton Utilities, all support the recommendation.

Reactors at the South Texas Project, in the path of the Hurricane Harvey -- 90 miles southwest of Houston -- kept churning out power despite the conditions outside.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Wednesday that it had partnered with the Kazakhstan government and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) to launch a new low enrichment uranium bank in Kazakhstan that will provide countries investing in nuclear power an assured supply of fuel to use for peaceful purposes.

Kyushu Electric Power Co. in Japan said Monday that the it had submitted a request to the Nuclear Regulation Authority for an inspection of the Genkai Nuclear Power Plant's Unit 3 that would take the reactor a step closer to a restart in January of 2018.

Southern California Edison (SCE) on Monday announced an agreement to find a new storage site for spent fuel generated at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) near San Diego.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday began a 10-day assessment of China's nuclear security, a mission that was prompted by a request from the China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA).

The U.S. nuclear power industry is beset with another wait-and-see week, as thousands of construction workers on site, hundreds of thousands of ratepayers and constituents across the state of Georgia anticipate the decision this week on whether or not the Plant Vogtle expansion project will continue.

Duke Energy Corporation said Friday it would seek permission to cancel the Lee Nuclear project slated for Gaffney, South Carolina, noting that it would ask regulators for permission to recover at least $368 million from ratepayers that were incurred as pre-construction costs.

Santee Cooper on Friday announced the resignation of Chief Executive Officer Lonnie Carter, who has served as the head of the state-owned utility since 2004 and has worked there since 1982.

Westinghouse Electric Company said Wednesday that it has signed a nuclear fuel contract extension with PSEG, a major supplier of nuclear power in New Jersey, to continue providing fuel assemblies for both units at the Salem Nuclear Generating Station.

The United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Thursday that a Site and External Events Design (SEED) team had reviewed the Republic of Korea's preparedness for seismic activities related to two nuclear plants that had been subjected to a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in September 2016.

Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom said Tuesday that fuel loading had begun ahead of schedule at the Tianwan nuclear power plant's new Unit 3 in the Jiangsu Province of China.

A Senate hearing in South Carolina's capital Tuesday yielded no breakthroughs that could signal hope for breathing new life into the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station expansion project that was abandoned on July 31 by the project owners South Carolina Electric and Gas and state-owned utility Santee Cooper.

The governor of Ohio, John Kasich, said Monday that he would not support a rescue plan for FirstEnergy Corp that would ensure the state's two nuclear power plants would have viable financial futures.

--Press Release-- MONTREAL, August 21, 2017 – L3 MAPPS announced today that under a contract with Swiss industrial technology company ABB it will update the simulator it provided in 2006 for DTE Energy’s Fermi 2 nuclear power plant based in Newport, Michigan.

Canada's primary research facility for nuclear research, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), said that its request for expression of interest (RFEOI) notices concerning small nuclear reactors, had prompted responses from over 70 organizations including potential host communities seeking to deploy the new technology.

A new Georgia Power video shows how workers last week at the Plant Vogtle expansion project in Waynesboro, Ga., accomplished the first major lift since Southern Nuclear was put in charge of the project earlier this summer.

The national nuclear power regulator in France, Autorite de Surete Nucleaire (ASN) has opened a public review of an order that would force utility giant EDF to review records involving any of the components in active nuclear power plants that were fabricated at the Le Creusot forge, which is owned by Areva.

Amec Foster Wheeler said Friday that joint venture OneAIM had been awarded a $188 million, four-year contract to provide facility support, along with partner Inferserve, for the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria in northwest England.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday it had approved Tennessee Valley Authority’s request for a 14.3 percent increase in the generating capacity of Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Units 1, 2 and 3.

Georgia Power announced Wednesday that the first steam generator has been placed at the Vogtle nuclear expansion project near Waynesboro, Georgia.

The restart of units 3 and 4 at Kyushu Electirc Power Company's Genkai nuclear generating station is being postponed from this coming fall to later in the winter, possibly until early 2018, the company said.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a follow up confirmatory order to Westinghouse Electric Company that seeks to address ongoing concerns associated with the May 2016 discovery of a build up of uranium bearing material in a scrubber system at the Columbia Fuel Fabricating Facility in South Carolina.

For the first time since 2012, processed and treated transuranic waste is leaving Oak Ridge’s Transuranic Waste Processing Center for permanent disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico, the program's Office of Environmental Management said.