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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said Japan will take firm steps...
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Sargent & Lundy to support Bruce Power refurbishment
Canada’s Bruce Power and Sargent & Lundy have entered into a multi-year agreement for project services. Sargent & Lundy will support all project controls and project management on...
IAEA and Ukrainian regulator provide updates on nuclear facilities
Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 16 March that the Zaporozhye NPP (ZNPP) had lost connection to a third power line but that two others remained...
Report lists tritium leaks at Illinois nuclear plants
An investigation by the US Better Government Association (BGA) found that Illinois NPPs reported at least 35 accidental releases of water contaminated with radioactive tritium over...
UK to open national nuclear archive
A national archive of records related to the history and development of the UK's civil nuclear industry opened on 14 February in Caithness, Scotland, funded by the...
Rosenergoatom’s expansion plans
Russian nuclear utility Rosenergoatom, a subsidiary of state nuclear corporation Rosatom, is aiming to increase the nuclear share of electricity in Russia from 18.6% in 2015 to 21%...
TVA to sell Bellafonte NPP
The board of the US Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has voted to sell to the highest bidder its Bellefonte NPP site in northern Alabama, with its two partially built reactors and...
Planning permission for UK nuclear archive
The Highland Council has given the go-ahead to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's plan for a nuclear archive at Wick in Scotland.
Pod boiler AGRs back online before end of year, EDF Energy says
EDF Energy has estimated that Heysham A and Hartlepool nuclear power plants, currently shut down to investigate structural components in boilers, will restart at some point between...
EDF Energy publishes AGR graphite loss levels
The operator of the UK’s 14 advanced gas-cooled reactors has released information about the ageing of the graphite blocks in the reactor core, which roughly corresponds to about a...
First of two emergency centres opens in USA
An emergency equipment centre has opened in Phoenix, Arizona to supply nuclear power plants in the western USA with portable safety equipment in the event of a Fukushima-type emergency....
Rostov nuclear plant completes laser scanning
The Russian nuclear state company NIAEP-ASE and Intergraph have created an accurate 3D model of the Rostov nuclear power plant, using laser scanning technology.
Plastic pipe wins over carbon steel in UK nuclear applications
In a recent project, buried cast-iron pipe carrying cooling water at the UK’s Hunterston B magnox nuclear power plant was replaced with high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe.