Industry News

2020-05-20

Final Barakah unit completes cold testing

Cold hydrostatic testing has been completed at Barakah unit 4, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has announced.
2020-05-19

Major component installed at Vogtle 3

The integrated head package (IHP) for Vogtle Unit 3 has been set into place on top of the reactor vessel, Georgia Power has announced.
2020-05-18

SFEN: Nuclear essential to economic recovery

Making a commitment to build six new EPRs in France would be an "effective stimulus" for the country's economy as it recovers in the years ahead from the shock of COVID-19, the French nuclear energy society (SFEN) wrote in a position paper published this week.
2020-05-14

Regulator confirms safety of Japanese reprocessing plant

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) today approved a draft report concluding Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited's (JNFL's) reprocessing plant at Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture meets new safety standards.
2020-05-13

IAEA's COVID-19 funding reaches EUR22 million

An initiative by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to help some 120 countries contain the COVID-19 pandemic has received strong extrabudgetary backing from Member States, with voluntary pledges so far totalling around EUR22 million (USD24 million).
2020-05-12

Cameco to resume operation of Ontario facilities

Canadian uranium producer Cameco will next week resume production at its Port Hope Conversion Facility's uranium hexafluoride (UF6) plant and its Blind River Refinery in Ontario.
2020-05-11

Alloy clear for use in high-temperature reactors

Alloy 617 - a combination of nickel, chromium, cobalt and molybdenum - has been approved by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for inclusion in its Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. This means the alloy can be used in proposed molten salt, high-temperature, gas-cooled or sodium reactors.
2020-05-09

Framatome, TUM to develop new research reactor fuel

France's Framatome and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany have started commercial development of nuclear research reactor fuels based on uranium-molybdenum fuel (U-Mo) alloys.
2020-05-08

Fuel for initial load of Ostrovets-1 arrives on site

The first batch of fuel for the nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus has been delivered to the construction site in Ostrovets, Russia's Rosatom announced today. The fuel assemblies are currently being prepared for unloading and inspection.
2020-05-07

Ontario nuclear supply chain joins COVID-19 response

Bruce Power on April 30 launched an initiative to leverage the supply chain developed for the Bruce Life Extension Programme to assist in the province's fight against the coronavirus and to help the economic recovery.

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