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Slovakia hosts Westinghouse-sponsored VVER nuclear fuel forum
28 February, 2024
Slovak power utility Slovenské Elektrárne (SE) hosted a two-day forum, the 5th annual VVER Fuel Forum in Bratislava. The forum on nuclear fuel for VVER 440 and VVER 1000 reactors, which was sponsored by Westinghouse, was attended by representatives of utilities that are potential customers for Westinghouse VVER fuel. These included Ukraine’s Energoatom, Finland’s Fortum, the Czech Republic’s ČEZ, Bulgaria’s JE Kozloduy, and Hungary’s nuclear plant operator MVM Paks. The participants exchanged experiences on the procedure for implementing fuel from Westinghouse for operating VVER-440 and VVER-1000 reactors.

Fortum plans tender for Loviisa fuel supplier
03 January, 2024
Finland’s Fortum Power & Heat Oy has submitted a report on future fuel procurement for the Loviisa NPP to the Ministry of Labour & Trade. The submission of the report was one of the permit conditions imposed when the government granted Fortum's two Loviisa units until the end of 2050. Fortum was required to submit a report to the Ministry by the end of.2023 on how it will handle the procurement of fresh fuel in the future. The purpose of the permit condition is to ensure that the fuel supply for Loviisa would no longer rely solely on the Russia’s TVEL.

Westinghouse to supply equipment for new unit at Khmelnitsky NPP
20 December, 2023
US-based Westinghouse has signed an agreement with Ukraine on the purchase of equipment for the expansion of Khmelnitsky NPP. The agreement was signed by Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko, nuclear utility Energoatom President Petro Kotin and Westinghouse CEO Patrick Fragman. “We have signed an important contract for the supply of reactor island equipment for the Khmelnitsky NPP power unit 5, which will be built using AP1000 technology.” Kotin said. “I consider this to be a milestone event in the development of the domestic nuclear industry. This will be the first-ever non-Soviet (by origin) power unit to be built by Energoatom in Ukraine. It will have a power over 1,100 MWe with a safe and reliable Generation III+ nuclear reactor.”

Cameco and Brookfield complete acquisition of Westinghouse
14 November, 2023
Canada’s Cameco has announced that acquisition of Westinghouse Electric Company in a strategic partnership with Brookfield Asset Management alongside Brookfield Renewable Partners and institutional partners has been completed. Cameco now owns a 49% interest and Brookfield a 51% in Westinghouse.

Cameco and Brookfield receive regulatory approval to acquire Westinghouse
08 November, 2023
Cameco has announced that its joint acquisition of Westinghouse Electric Company with Brookfield Asset Management, alongside its publicly listed affiliate Brookfield Renewable Partners and institutional partners, has now received all required regulatory approvals. The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared the Cameco Corp and Brookfield Renewable Partners' $7.875bn deal to acquire Westinghouse Electric. CMA, which began considering the deal in August, said it will not refer the merger for further investigation.

Westinghouse VVER-440 fuel loaded at Ukraine’s Rivne NPP
12 September, 2023
The first VVER-440 fuel produced by US-based Westinghouse at its Swedish facility has been loaded into one of the reactors at Ukraine’s Rivne NPP. It was not clear which of the units – 1 or 2 – received the fuel, which reportedly will initially be mixed with the existing fuel supplied by Russia’s TVEL. Ukraine’s target, however, is to end the use of Russian-supplied fuel as soon as possible.

Slovenské Elektrárne signs fuel supply agreement with Westinghouse
30 August, 2023
Slovak power utility Slovenské Elektrárne (SE) has signed a contract with US-based Westinghouse to supply of nuclear fuel Slovakia’s NPPs. This followed an international tender for the supply of nuclear fuel and related services throughout the supply chain for the production of nuclear fuel. SE says the aim of the agreement is to diversify the supply of nuclear fuel for VVER 440 power plants in Slovakia.

Europe looks to develop VVER fuel
12 July, 2023
The European Union (EU) has selected a consortium led by Westinghouse to develop and deliver a secure, fully European nuclear fuel supply for Russian-designed pressurised water reactors (VVERs). Westinghouse says “diversifying the sources of VVER fuel will be fully achieved by strengthening European capabilities in design, manufacturing, and supply while accelerating the capacity-building process”.

Westinghouse contracted to supply fuel to UK AGRs
30 June, 2023
US-based Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a contract extension with EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Limited (NGL) to supply fuel for the UK’s Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors (AGRs) from its Springfields fuel fabrication facility in the UK.

Alpha Safety combines NFT with Pajarito Scientific Corporation to better serve its customers
13 April, 2023
Alpha Safety Holdings, LLC has announced the acquisition of Pajarito Scientific Corporation and subsequent merger with its subsidiary NucFil, LLC.

Westinghouse to supply VVER-440 fuel to Dukovany
04 April, 2023
US-based Westinghouse Electric Company and Czech power company CEZ have signed an agreement on the supply of fuel assemblies for the Dukovany NPP, which comprises four Soviet-built VVER-440 reactors. Westinghouse says it will deliver fuel beginning in 2024, “replacing the current supplier, with an anticipated term of seven years”. The current fuel supplier is Russia’s TVEL.

Enusa and Westinghouse formalise VVER-440 fuel collaboration
20 January, 2023
Spain’s Enusa Industrias Avanzadas and Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB have formalised a cooperation agreement regarding the manufacture of VVER-440 fuel. Under this agreement, which entered into force on 1 December, the two companies will collaborate exclusively in the manufacture of VVER-440 fuel for the countries that currently operate this type of reactor. Enusa has launched all the necessary activities to reinstall a production line for this product at its Juzbado factory. This is expected to be completed and licensed in 2023 to make possible fuel deliveries from the beginning of 2024.

Westinghouse to design fuel for Fortum’s Loviisa NPP
25 November, 2022
Fortum has signed an agreement with Westinghouse Electric Company for the design, licensing and supply of a new type of fuel for the Loviisa NPP in Finland. The new fuel type is based on British Nuclear Fuel Limited’s fuel that was supplied to the Loviisa plant from 2001 to 2007, and used in parallel with the fuel supplied by the Russian TVEL in the early 2000s. Taking the new fuel into use is a multi-year project requiring regulatory approvals.

Cameco and Brookfield Renewable to acquire Westinghouse
13 October, 2022
Cameco Corporation and Brookfield Renewable Partners, together with its institutional partners (the consortium), are forming a strategic partnership to acquire Westinghouse Electric Company. Brookfield Renewable, with its institutional partners, will own a 51% interest in Westinghouse and Cameco will own 49%.

Brookfield may sell stake in Westinghouse
27 April, 2021
Canada-based Brookfield Business Partners is exploring options including the sale of a minority stake in Westinghouse Electric Co, Reuters reported on 23 April citing “people familiar with the matter”. The sale could value the U.S. nuclear power developer and servicer at as much as $10 billion including debt, Reuters noted.

Brookfield completes acquisition of Westinghouse
06 August, 2018
US-based Westinghouse Electric Company on 1 August announced the completion of its sale to Brookfield Business Partners together with institutional partners (collectively, Brookfield) by Japan’s Toshiba Corporation, and emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a reorganised company.

Asia assesses effects of Westinghouse bankruptcy
03 April, 2017
China's State Power Investment Corp (SPIC) said Westinghouse's bankruptcy filing would not have a "substantial impact" on China’s nuclear plans and the two sides would ensure a key AP1000 reactor project would be completed on schedule this year, Reuters reported on 30 March. Two AP1000 reactors are under construction at the Sanmen NPP in Zhejiang province and two more at the Haiyang NPP Shandong province. According to the recently-published 13th Five-Year Plan China aimed to have all four AP1000 units in operation by the end of 2017.

Second thoughts on South Africa’s pebble-bed reactor
02 April, 2017
South Africa’s state utility and nuclear operator Eskom is looking again at plans abandoned in 2010 to develop a Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR), according chief nuclear officer David Nicholls. South Africa began working on the PBMR in 1993, and PBMR Pty, the company set up to lead the project, was on the point of beginning construction when the government cut funding and withdrew its support in 2010. It would have been the first Generation IV unit to enter the construction phase. In an interview with EE Publishers on 28 March, Nicholls. A former CEO of PBMR Pty, said Eskom was investigating whether there is now a market for ultra-safe, small, nuclear reactors for power generation, using high-temperature technology. He said Eskom had started looking at the PBMR again with “a clean sheet” and is carrying out a paper study “with limited research funding going into it”.

Goodbye to BNFL
09 August, 2016
The UK government, as part of a major reduction of public bodies, has decided to finally abolish British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL). The company, which was launched in 1971, grew to manage the UK's nuclear fuel cycle centres and all 26 Magnox nuclear power reactors. It established a US-based decommissioning division in 1990, bought the reactor vendor Westinghouse in 1999, and in 2000 bought the nuclear business of ABB and integrated it into Westinghouse. In its own words, BNFL was "a highly influential and respected nuclear company with operations across the UK and overseas”.

Toshiba ends agreements with US CB&I
18 May, 2016
Japan’s Toshiba and US CB&I have agreed to terminate agreements signed in 2010 between Toshiba and Shaw Group related to construction of two Advanced Boiling Water Reactors (ABWRs) at the South Texas Project (STP). Shaw was subsequently acquired by CB&I, which later sold the reactor construction business to Westinghouse, which is part of Toshiba. Earlier in 2008, Toshiba and US utility NRG Energy set up Nuclear Innovation North America (NINA), and applied for a combined construction and operation licence through the STP Nuclear Operating Company, which was granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in February. NINA owns over 92% of the STP newbuild project, and Toshiba has bankrolled the licensing process since NRG withdrew from the project in 2011.