Kiev (AFP) Dec 23, 2020 - Ukraine plans to stop sending its spent nuclear fuel to Russia next year after opening a storage depot at the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the state operator of atomic power plants said Wednesday.
Moscow (AFP) Dec 16, 2020 - A Russian nuclear-powered cargo ship bound for Antarctica has been forced to turn back after sustaining damage, and will bypass Europe before undergoing repairs, state nuclear agency Rosatom said Wednesday.
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 - Framatome and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) signed a teaming agreement to provide digital protection relays and turnkey protection relay upgrades to the nuclear industry. This agreement
London (AFP) Dec 14, 2020 - Britain said Monday it will hold talks with French energy giant EDF concerning the construction of a nuclear power plant on England's east coast, in a project reportedly worth 20 billion pounds ($26.4 billion, 22 billion euros).
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 11, 2020 - Framatome recently manufactured the world's first uranium-molybdenum and uranium-silicon objects using 3D-printed technology. The objects were manufactured at the CERCA Research and Innovation Lab (
Helsinki (AFP) Dec 10, 2020 - A nuclear reactor in Finland entered an automatic shutdown after a radiation spike was detected inside the plant's systems on Thursday, but no radiation escaped the facility, the country's nuclear safety authority said.
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 - Framatome signed a sale purchase agreement with Rolls-Royce to acquire its Civil Nuclear Instrumentation and Control (I&C) business, which has operations principally in France, and to a lesser exten
Wilmington NC (SPX) Dec 07, 2020 - Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) has announced that lead test assemblies of its Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) solutions have been delivered to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Labora
Wilmington NC (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 - GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has announced that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a Final Safety Evaluation Report for the first of several licensing topical reports (LTRs)
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 - Framatome recently collaborated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to create a 3D-printed safety component that will be loaded in a U.S. commercial nuclear power plant. The stainless steel fu
Beijing (AFP) Nov 28, 2020 - China has powered up its first domestically developed nuclear reactor - the Hualong One - a significant step in Beijing's attempts to become less dependent on Western allies for energy security and critical technology.
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 - A new analysis by MIT researchers details many of the underlying issues that have caused cost overruns on new nuclear power plants in the U.S., which have soared ever higher over the last five decad
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 - Framatome today announced that it joined the Sizewell C Consortium, a group of more than 100 companies and organisations from across the U.K. working to design, supply and construct the proposed nuc
Le Creusot, France (SPX) Nov 17, 2020 - Framatome recently announced that it ramped up production of replacement component parts at its manufacturing plant located at Le Creusot, France. On October 28, forging operations began on the firs
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 - All of the nuclear power plants operating in the U.S. today were built using the same general formula. For one thing, companies made their reactors big, with power capacities measured in the hundred
Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Nov 12, 2020 - Germany's highest court said Thursday the government must revise the terms of compensation paid to energy companies forced to switch out of nuclear power, calling current arrangements unreasonable.
