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UK nuclear energy: Why does Moorside matter?

• 2018-10-09 10:46:23.879374
• Junior Isles

Three hundred of the best and brightest in the UK’s nuclear industry gathered at this year’s Cumbria Nuclear Conference (CNC), to discuss the importance of collaboration, not just in Cumbria, but across the industry. The Moorside project’s significant impact on Cumbria was a hot topic.

By Craig Hatch, Managing Director, Surveying & Asset Management, WYG

Centrus to conduct $15 million Oak Ridge D&D project for US DOE

• 2018-10-03 05:47:06.782144
• David Flin

Centrus Energy Corporation has announced a $15 million Work Authorisation from the US Department of Energy (DOE) for decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) to prepare the Department’s K-1600 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee for demolition.

Centrus and Doosan sign MOU to explore cooperation on supplying advanced reactor market

• 2018-09-18 04:50:54.075089
• David Flin

Centrus Energy Corporation and Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction have announced a MOU to explore opportunities to cooperate in providing manufacturing, engineering, and technical services and goods to the nuclear industry.

Delay of two years for Oma nuclear power plant

• 2018-09-05 04:53:03.564200
• David Flin

Construction of Oma nuclear power plant in northern Japan, designed to use recycled fuel, has been delayed by two years, and will not start operation until at least 2026.

Fuel loading completed at Tianwan 4

• 2018-09-04 05:31:43.084745
• David Flin

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has announced that all 163 fuel assemblies have been loaded into the core of unit 4 at China’s Tianwan nuclear power plant.

South Africa drops nuclear in favour of renewables

• 2018-08-29 06:01:00.124993
• David Flin

The South African Department of Energy has announced that the Cabinet has approved the draft updated Integrated Resources Plan (IRP 2018) which will see increased renewable energy generation in place of planned nuclear expansion.

Iran and Russia to resume talks on construction of new nuclear power plant

• 2018-08-27 05:17:10.190377
• David Flin

Reza Ardakanian, Energy Minister of Iran, has said that the country has restarted negotiations with Russia to build a new 3000 MW nuclear power plant.

Bechtel to manage UK’s Wylfa Newydd nuclear power project

• 2018-08-23 03:52:31.691677
• David Flin

Bechtel has announced that it has signed a contract with Hitachi’s UK subsidiary Horizon Nuclear Power to manage construction of the proposed Wylfa Newydd nuclear power plant in Wales.

SMR design for plant in Idaho, USA under review by NRC

• 2018-08-16 07:46:15.169356
• David Flin

An SMR nuclear power plant design from NuScale Technology for a facility in southeast Idaho, USA is being processed through the federal regulatory framework.

SNC-Lavalin signs fuel contract with Third Qinshan Nuclear Power Company

• 2018-08-08 03:21:23.849568
• David Flin

SNC-Lavalin has signed an engineering service contract and a licensing agreement with China’s Third Qinshan Nuclear Power Company (TQNPC) to implement 37M Natural Uranium Equivalent (NUE) fuel, a mixture of depleted and recycled uranium, in Qinshan’s CANDU reactors Units 1 and 2.