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  • UK’s new premier promises boost for nuclear power

    2019.08.27

    Boris Johnson expressed his "passionate" support for nuclear power when he addressed the House of Commons for the first time as UK prime minister yesterday. Seven of the country’s eight existing nuclear plants are set to be retired by 2030, while new-build projects have faced financial uncertainty over the last two years.

  • Energoatom tests Holtec used fuel casks at Rovno plant

    2019.08.12

    Ukraine's nuclear power plant operator Energoatom last week completed functional testing of Holtec International's HI-TRAC and HI-STAR 190 containers at unit 3 of the Rovno nuclear power plant during the VVER-1000 reactor's scheduled maintenance outage.

  • WANO completes technical support mission at Leningrad II-2

    2019.08.16

    Experts from the Moscow Centre of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) have completed a technical support mission at unit 2 of the Leningrad Phase II nuclear power plant under construction in northwest Russia.

  • Sellafield launches repackaging of plutonium canisters

    2019.08.15

    Work has started on a five-year GBP1 billion (USD1.21 billion) programme to address an identified degradation risk in a small proportion of plutonium canisters stored at Sellafield in northwest England and dating from about 50 years ago. The start has been announced with the opening and repackaging of one such can for the first time.

  • US regulator approves latest Holtec transport cask

    2019.08.14

    Holtec International's HI-STAR 100MB transport package has been certified by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The company says the cask is "destined to become America's workhorse for transporting used nuclear fuel".

  • UK blackout proved need for diverse energy mix, says business secretary

    2019.08.14

    UK Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom has set out the scope of the government's investigation into the power cut that affected a million homes and caused travel disruption across England and Wales on 9 August as generators cut off unexpectedly around 5.00pm.

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