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NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to Hold Oral Argument on Comanche Peak License Renewal
United States >> 4/11/2023 - A Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will conduct an oral argument via WebEx on April 19. The session concerns a petition to hold an adjudicatory hearing on Vistra Opera...
BWXT Awarded $428M Contract for Uranium Conversion
United States >> 4/10/2023 - BWX Technologies, Inc. announced that its Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (NFS) subsidiary has been awarded a $428 million contract from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to provide puri...
New NARUC-NASEO Collaborative Helps Better Inform State Approaches to New Nuclear Generation
United States >> 4/10/2023 - The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the National Association of State Energy Officials have initiated the Advanced Nuclear State Collaborative, a new effort supported by t...
Westinghouse Celebrates Milestone Achievement for China’s Sanmen Nuclear Plant
China >> 4/5/2023 - Westinghouse Electric Company congratulates CNNC Sanmen Nuclear Power Company Limited and their partners for the pouring of first nuclear concrete for Sanmen Unit 4. This significant milestone will fu...
Westinghouse, Bechtel Host Polish Suppliers for AP1000® Reactor Deployment
Poland >> 4/4/2023 - Westinghouse Electric Company and Bechtel hosted a two-day symposium in Warsaw to highlight AP1000® reactor supplier opportunities for Poland’s new nuclear energy program. Representatives from more th...
Blue Biofuels Achieves Full Conversion with Pilot Scale Reactor System
United States >> 4/4/2023 - Blue Biofuels announced the achievement of full conversion of cellulose into soluble sugars from our king grass feedstock with our newly designed larger pilot reactor. We were able to process our ki...
Russian NPPs exceeded the state task of the FAS Russia by 4.4% in Q1 of 2023
Russia >> 4/3/2023 - Nuclear power plants in Russia (branches of Rosenergoatom, ROSATOM's Electric Power Division) generated about 53.5 billion kilowatt-hours in three months of 2023, or 104.42% of the balance target* of ...
Small Modular Reactor Design Completes First Step of Assessment
United Kingdom >> 4/3/2023 - The Environment Agency, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and Natural Resources Wales (NRW) announced that they are progressing to the next phase of their assessment of Rolls-Royce SMR Ltd’s 470...
Vogtle 3 & 4 Nuclear Units Take Significant Steps Toward Operations
Georgia >> 4/1/2023 - Unit 3 successfully generates electricity, connects to grid for the first time
Unit 4 Hot Functional Testing began last month

Georgia Power announced it has achieved another importan...
PacifiCorp Forecasts Need for Two Additional Natrium Reactors in New Regulatory Filing
United States >> 3/31/2023 - PacifiCorp released its 2023 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) which selects two additional Natrium reactor and energy storage systems1 into the company’s generation resource mix by 2033. This IRP includ...
Finnish Government Grants Operating Licence for Loviisa Nuclear Power Plant
Finland >> 3/30/2023 - The Finnish Government has granted Fortum a licence to operate the final disposal facility for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste, located in the Loviisa power plant area, until the end of ...
X-energy Partners with Kinectrics for Helium Test Facility
United States >> 3/30/2023 - X-Energy Reactor Company, LLC (“X-energy” or the “Company”), a leading developer of advanced modular nuclear reactors and fuel technology for clean energy generation, and Kinectrics, a leading global ...
Call for Veterans & Civilian Staff to Claim Commemorative Nuclear Test Medals
United Kingdom >> 3/30/2023 - In recognition of their significant contribution to the UK’s nuclear deterrent testing programme, potentially thousands of veterans and civilian staff, and next of kin, across the UK and Commonwealth ...
CNL & Kyoto Fusioneering Partner to Accelerate the Development of Fusion Energy
Canada >> 3/30/2023 - Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology organization, is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Kyoto Fusioneering...
HALEU Production Preparations to Begin at Savannah River Site
United States >> 3/30/2023 - The Savannah River Site’s (SRS’s) H Canyon facility recently initiated actions to recycle a small amount of used highly enriched uranium (HEU) that is stored in the Site’s H Area and down-blend it in...
Aduro Clean Technologies Starts Commissioning Phase of the Continuous Flow Plastics Reactor
Canada >> 3/30/2023 - Aduro Clean Technologies Inc., a Canadian developer of patented water-based technologies to chemically recycle plastics and to transform heavy crude and renewable oils into new-era resources and highe...
NRC Names New Resident Inspector at Plant Vogtle
Georgia >> 3/30/2023 - Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials in Atlanta have selected William Truss as the agency’s new resident inspector at Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Waynesboro, Georgia. Truss joins NRC Seni...
EDF Response to Government Energy Announcements
United Kingdom >> 3/30/2023 - EDF’s response following the UK government announcement this morning:

Simone Rossi UK CEO of EDF said: “Two years of energy crisis have demonstrated the urgency to ensure clean, secure, af...
GE Hitachi Signs Four-Party Agreement to Bring Small Modular Reactors Online This Decade
United States >> 3/29/2023 - “We have an energy crisis,” said Rafal Kasprów, CEO of Poland’s Synthos Green Energy (SGE), last Thursday in Washington, D.C. “The solution we need,” he said, is innovative technology — “and we alread...
SNC-Lavalin-Moltex to Strengthen Global Outlook for Small Modular Reactors
Canada >> 3/28/2023 - Candu Energy Inc., a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, and New-Brunswick based Moltex Energy’s strategic partnership, launched in 2022, continues to strengthen the global outlook for small modular reac...

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