Fessenheim, France (AFP) Feb 20, 2020 - France will start closing its oldest atomic power plant on Saturday after 43 years in operation, the first in a series of reactor shutdowns but hardly a signal the country will reduce its reliance on nuclear energy anytime soon.
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Feb 20, 2020 - Finnish digital technologies, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, sensing technologies, material science and nuclear safety know-how are useful as the world's nuclear power plants approach de
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Feb 19, 2020 - The United Arab Emirates has started loading fuel rods into the first reactor at its Barakah nuclear plant, operators said Wednesday, two days after regulators gave the green light.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 18, 2020 - Framatome recently signed a contract to complete the first large-scale digital upgrade to the existing safety- and non-safety-related electromechanical protective relays at a U.S. nuclear power plan
Tomsk Oblast, Russia (SPX) Feb 17, 2020 - Researchers at Tomsk Polytechnic University found a method to increase fuel lifetime by 75%. According to the research team, it will significantly increase safety and reduce the operating cost of nu
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Feb 17, 2020 - The United Arab Emirates said Monday it has issued an operating licence for a reactor at its Barakah nuclear power plant, the first in the Arab world, hailing it as a new chapter.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 - Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) awarded Framatome several multimillion-dollar contracts for work across the company's reactor fleet. This includes fuel for the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, fuel hand
Wilmington NC (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 - GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and CEZ, a. s. (CEZ), an integrated electricity conglomerate, have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding through which the comp
Wilmington NC (SPX) Feb 03, 2020 - GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has officially begun the regulatory licensing process for its BWRX-300 small modular reactor. On December 30, 2019 the company submitted the first licensing top
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 03, 2020 - The sophistication of autonomous systems currently being developed across various domains and industries has markedly increased in recent years, due in large part to advances in computing, modeling,
Newcastle upon Tyne UK (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 - The reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel could become safer and more efficient in future after researchers found a way to modify the structure of molecules to remove radioactive materials. The r
San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2020 - Deep Isolation, a leading innovator in nuclear waste storage and disposal solutions, will be featured at the Cleantech Forum San Francisco, January 27-29, 2020. Chief Executive Officer, Elizabeth Mu
Columbus OH (SPX) Jan 28, 2020 - The materials the United States and other countries plan to use to store high-level nuclear waste will likely degrade faster than anyone previously knew because of the way those materials interact,
paris, France (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 - In the context of the development of industrial processes, Framatome detected non-compliance with specified temperature ranges in the application of particular local stress-relieving heat treatments
Bellevue WA (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 - GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and TerraPower have announced a collaboration to pursue a Public Private Partnership to design and construct the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) for the U.S. Department
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 17, 2020 - A Japanese nuclear reactor near a fault line must remain shut because of the risk of its being struck by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, a high court ordered on Friday.
