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Sensing a weak uranium market, Canada- and Kazakhstan-based mining concern Cameco said in its second quarter statement that it would continue with a production halt at its McArthur River and Key Lake facilities “for an indeterminate duration.”

Canada's Bruce Power said that it had awarded contracts to Black & McDonald Limited for construction services for the company's Unit 6 Major Component Replacement (MCR) project.

Electricity generator NextEra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Inc., said Friday that it had agreed to a buyout plan with Iowa-based buyer Alliant Energy that would shorten the operating lifespan of the Duane Arnold Energy Center by five years.

--Press Release-- AVANTech, Inc., headquartered in Columbia, SC, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Mid Columbia Engineering, Inc. (MCE), a design-build firm headquartered in Richland, WA.

Barakah One Company, the joint venture that will operate the four-unit Barakah nuclear plant in the United Arab Emirates, has received its electricity generation license for Unit 1 from the Department of Energy.

Framatome said it had successfully completed a visual inspection of the tube bundle top structure of a steam generator in the Spanish nuclear power plant at Ascó Unit 2 using a "well-proven" underwater inspection submarine system called SUSI.

Candu Energy Inc., a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has been selected to provide decommissioning services for the Saskatchewan Research Council’s (SRC) Safe Low-Power Kritical Experiment (SLOWPOKE-2) research reactor.

Indian news outlets have reported a major shipment from Russia that includes eight moisture separator reheaters and high-pressure heaters that is destined for the Kudandulam 3 nuclear build.

China's first ACPR-1000 reactor, Unit 5 at the Yangjiang Nuclear Power Plant, has completed its initial trial run and moved into commercial operations status, an event that occurred July 12, CGN Power announced.

French nuclear industry supplier Framatome said it had reached a major milestone in its review of documentation at the Le Creusot forge and that it was ramping up production at the facility where the company believes trust in its reliability is on the upswing.

Workers at the Leningrad NPP II Unit 2 construction project have completed welding of the perlite section and heat treatment of butts of the main circulation pipeline (MCP), Rosatom said on July 17.

The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate has granted a 20-year license extension to Unit 3 at the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant in northwest Ukraine VVER-1000 reactor, reports indicate.

U.S. and Ukrainian officials attended a ceremony marking the fuel loading of Westinghouse fuel assemblies into the core of Unit 3 at the South Ukraine nuclear plant on July 18, marking the first time a Ukrainian nuclear plant would operate without some Russian fuel assemblies in the mix.

---Press Release --- L3 MAPPS and Terrestrial Energy announced Thursday that they have signed an agreement to develop real-time simulation for Terrestrial Energy’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR), a Generation IV advanced nuclear power plant.

Sandia National Laboratories said this week that its researchers had built a scaled test assembly that mimics a dry cask storage container for spent nuclear fuel to study how fuel temperatures change during storage and how the fuel’s peak temperatures affect the integrity of the metal cladding surrounding the spent fuel.

SNC-Lavalin and Holtec International group on Friday announced a new US-based joint venture company named Comprehensive Decommissioning International, LLC (CDI) that will focus on decommissioning shuttered nuclear power plants.

Britain's Motex Energy said it had been selected by New Brunswick Energy Solutions Corporation and New Brunswick Power to develop its Stable Salt Reactor Wasteburner (SSR-W) technology for deployment in New Brunswick, Canada. The deployment of the reactor that operates without pumps is now slated for the Point Lepreau nuclear facility. Moltex said the target date for deployment was 2030. In late June, the SSR...

With high ranking government officials on hand, a ceremony was held in Bangladesh this week marking the ‘First Concrete” that is symbolically the start of construction for the Unit 2 of Rooppur Nuclear Power Project.

Orano has signed with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) a ‘Roadmap of Collaboration’ which will set out the way it will work together in advancing civil nuclear decommissioning, clean-up and hazard reduction. Orano

Nuclear solutions company Framatome, owned by EDF (75 percent), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (19.5 percent) and Assystem (5 percent), said it had completed refurbishment of 31 reactor coolant pumps in three southeastern U.S. nuclear energy facilities. The announcement said the work began in 2002 and was completed by June of this year.

Fluor Corporation announced Tuesday that the U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have jointly awarded contracts to Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fluor, to manage the Naval Nuclear Laboratory.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry today announced the selection of nine domestic projects to receive nearly $20 million in funding for cost-shared research and development for advanced nuclear technologies.

Engineering and construction giant Becthel announced it will join forces with GE Hitachi, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Exelon Power Generation Company to investigate efficient ways to develop and build a nuclear power plant using GE Hitachi's BWRX-300 reactors.

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy announced that Russian engineering and construction giant Rosatom had been shortlisted for the next stage of bidding for the country's first nuclear power plants.

Czechoslovakian company SKODA JS said this week that it had finalized negotiations with French company Framatome with a contract to supply two sets of EPR 1600 reactor pressure vessels internals that are slated for the Hinkley Point C. nuclear plant in Somerset, Great Britain.