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US Department of Energy awards two advanced reactor projects for BWRX-300 SMR
- 2020-05-15 06:58:07.059648
- David Flin
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced awards to two teams to develop tools to transform the O&M of advanced nuclear reactors through the use of artificial intelligence-enabled digital twins using the GE Hitachi (GEH) BWRX-300 small modular reactor as a reference design.
Beaver Valley nuclear power plant to remain open past 2021
- 2020-03-16 05:52:12.513436
- David Flin
Energy Harbor Corp., the owner of the Beaver Valley nuclear power plant in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, USA, has announced that the plant will no longer be shut down in 2021, as originally scheduled.
Fault at Koeberg nuclear plant exacerbates South Africa’s power crisis
- 2020-03-11 06:12:13.788008
- David Flin
South Africa’s power utility Eskom has disconnected Koeberg Unit One from the national grid due to a fault on the turbine side, exacerbating South Africa’s power crisis.
TVA and ORNL to jointly study SMR project at Oak Ridge
- 2020-02-21 07:19:41.862130
- David Flin
The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) have signed an MOU to jointly evaluate how to develop, build, and operate small modular reactors, which TVA is considering building near ORNL in Oak Ridge.
Licence to operate granted to UAE nuclear power plant
- 2020-02-18 06:08:30.462999
- David Flin
The United Arab Emirates has announced that the country’s first nuclear power plant, the Barakah plant in Abu Dhabi, has been given approval to operate, making it the first such facility to deploy in the Arab world.
SNC-Lavalin wins Bruce Power contracts
- 2020-01-31 06:12:32.991515
- David Flin
SNC-Lavalin has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Candu Energy, has been awarded three contracts with a combined value of $34 million from Bruce Power in Ontario, Canada, for projects in support of the Major Component Replacement (MCR) programme.
Canadian nuclear power plant sends emergency alert in error
- 2020-01-14 06:09:40.634820
- David Flin
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station in Ontario, Canada sent out an emergency alert about an “incident” at around 07:30 local time on 12 January to people living within six miles of the facility.
Russia sets record for nuclear power generation
- 2020-01-02 05:10:46.011587
- David Flin
Rosenergoatom, which operates all nuclear power plants in Russia, has announced that it generated 209 TWh of energy production in 2019, a record amount.
UAE nuclear power plant scheduled to be operational in early 2020
- 2020-01-01 07:46:24.737680
- David Flin
Al-Ittihad, the Abu Dhabi government-owned newspaper, has reported that Barakah Unit 1 should start operating in the first quarter of 2020.
NuScale’s SMR design clears phase 4 of NRC’s review process
- 2019-12-13 06:22:36.206170
- David Flin
NuScale Power has announced that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed the fourth phase of review of the design certification application (DCA) for the company’s small modular reactor (SMR).
