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Bruce Power awards contract to BWXT Canada for MCR project
As part of its ‘Made in Ontario’ strategy to secure good jobs, strengthen the economy, and cement the province as a nuclear centre of excellence, Canada’s Bruce Power has announced a...
INL completes core overhaul for Advanced Test Reactor
US Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has recently completed the sixth major core overhaul of the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR), which began operation in 1967.
Unit 1 of China’s Taishan NPP taken off line for repair
China General Nuclear (CGN) said on 30 July that unit 1 of Taishan NPP in Guangdong province - the world's first operating EPR reactor -- had been taken offline to replace damaged...
US supports optimisation of Ukraine’s Zaporozhe NPP
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy said on 28 June that it had worked with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Ukrainian company, NT-Engineering, to...
Bushehr NPP taken offline due to technical fault
The Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) said in a statement on 20 June that the Bushehr NPP had been temporarily shut down due to a technical problem. The AEOI noted that it...
Framatome contracted supply long-term operation support to Dominion Energy
Framatome said on 6 April that it had recently signed a multimillion-dollar contract with Dominion Energy to support the long-term operation of the company’s nuclear fleet. This...
Armenian NPP prepares for life extension
The scheduled repair and maintenance outage at the Armenian nuclear power plant this year will be longer than usual, lasting 141 days to allow for modernisation to extend the life of...
SNC-Lavalin to design equipment for Darlington nuclear plant
Canada’s SNC-Lavalin announced it had been awarded a contract for detailed design, fabrication/manufacturing and first commercial deployment of the newly developed Pressure...
Tepco to explore the use of Rawwater specialist alloy seals
The UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) announced on 24 September that it had brokered a deal between Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) and Rawwater Engineering Company,...
GE wins $120m Cernavoda maintenance contract
GE Steam Power has signed a new turbine island maintenance agreement with Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica, the owner/operator of Romania's Cernavoda nuclear plant.
Framatome launches new protective coatings
France’s Framatome has launched “a suite of new protective coatings approved for use in plant applications that reduce maintenance costs and extend the operating life of components...
Electrical discharge machining used on live reactor pipeline system
US-based machining specialist Hydratight has become the first company to use electrical discharge machining (EDM) for maintenance work. The company said it had completed the...
Canada’s Bruce Power increases production of radioactive cobalt
Canada’s Bruce Power NPP on 4 September placed medical-grade High Specific Activity (HSA) Cobalt rods into the unit 8 reactor during a planned maintenance inspection programme. All...
Framatome completes refurbishment of reactor coolant pump motors
Framatome announced on 10 July that it had completed the refurbishment of 31 reactor coolant pump motors for three southeastern nuclear energy facilities in the USA.
Amarinth supplies replacement pump for Sellafield
UK-based Amarinth, which specialises in the design, application and manufacture of centrifugal pumps and associated equipment to the Oil & Gas, petrochemical, chemical, industrial...
South Korean phase out may impact exports
South Korea's Nuclear Safety and Security Commission on 18 June approved the restart of unit 3 at the Shin Kori NPP, which was shut down in January for scheduled maintenance. The...
More cracks found at Hunterston B
New cracks have been identified during a routine inspection in the core of unit 3 at the UK’s Hunterston B advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR). The unit is now expected to remain...
Sulzer wins pump maintenance contract for UK Heysham NPP
Under a contract for availability, Sulzer is providing maintenance and continued support of the boiler feed pumps at EDF Energy's Heysham 2 NPP, near Morecambe in the UK. The...
Spains Tecnatom to supply valves to Argentina
Nucleoeléctrica Argentina SA (NA-SA), the owner and operator of the Atucha 1 and 2 and Embalse NPPs, on 7 August awarded Spain’s Tecnatom a contract for the supply of valves and spares...
