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| January 08, 2014 |
 Czech environment minister cancels nuke waste repository site survey Brno, Czech Republic (UPI) Jan 6, 2013 - Exploration of an area of the southeastern Czech Republic as a site for long-term radioactive waste storage has been canceled, the environment ministry says. Czech Republic Environment Minister Tomas Podivinsky announced Friday a planned geological survey of the Kravi Hora site in the state of Moravia for a long-planned deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel has been scrapped ... more |  |
Westinghouse Announces Setting of AP1000 Plant Shield Building Conical Roofs Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jan 03, 2014 - Westinghouse Electric Company, its consortium team member CB&I and China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation announce the successful setting of the shield building conical roofs on the first units of the AP1000 plants under construction in Sanmen and Haiyang, China. The lift and set of the conical roofs for Sanmen and Haiyang Units 1 were completed on Nov. 23 and Dec.15 by the Joi ... more |  |
China loans Pakistan $6.5 bn for nuclear plants Islamabad (AFP) Jan 02, 2014 - China has agreed to lend Pakistan $6.5 billion to help build nuclear power stations including a 2,200-megawatt plant in Karachi, as Beijing increases its involvement in the cash-strapped country. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced the package at a briefing on Wednesday, saying it would help ensure an uninterrupted power supply. The loans are to be provided by Chinese state-owned Exim ... more |  |
Saudi royal firm to file complaint against France's EDF Riyadh (AFP) Dec 31, 2013 - Saudi-owned Soroof International will file a complaint against French energy giant EDF, the conglomerate chaired by Prince Bandar bin Abdullah al-Saud said on Tuesday. The complaint would be filed in Saudi courts in the coming days to "seek remedies against the offences and harms caused to Soroof International and His highness Prince Bandar," the company said in a statement emailed to AFP. ... more |  |
 Renewables Provides All New US Electrical Generating Capacity In November Washington DC (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - According to the latest "Energy Infrastructure Update" report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects, solar, biomass, wind, geothermal, and hydropower "units" provided 394 MW - or 100% - of all new electrical generation placed in-service in November 2013. There was no new capacity during the month from natural gas, coal, oil, or nuclear power. Renewable e ... more |  |
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Fukushima operator readies new restructuring plan Tokyo (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - Tokyo Electric Power Wednesday submitted a fresh restructuring plan to a Japanese government-backed fund that envisages the creation of a special unit to dismantle the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. TEPCO president Naomi Hirose pledged thorough implementation of the plan, once approved by the government as expected next month. The utility's board Tuesday approved a draft plan that wou ... more |  |
Romania says Enel, ArcelorMittal exit nuclear project Bucharest (AFP) Dec 23, 2013 - Energy giants Enel and ArcelorMittal will pull out of the construction of two nuclear reactors in Romania after a Chinese company entered the deal, Romanian officials said Monday. Italy's Enel and the Romanian subsidiary of ArcelorMittal "have decided to sell their stakes of respectively 9.15 and 6.2 percent in EnergoNuclear," the project company, said Nuclearelectrica, a Romanian state-owne ... more |  |
Westinghouse Expands European Nuclear Center To Meet Growing Demand Nivelles, Belgium (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - Westinghouse Electric Company today inaugurated the extension of its European Maintenance Center in Nivelles, Belgium to provide scalable growth to support an increasing customer base, including Electricite de France (EDF), as well as Spanish energy giants Endesa and Iberdrola. The expansion will provide an additional 1,000 square meters of maintenance and storage space to support the Cent ... more |  |
Solvay and AREVA team up to develop new thorium applications Paris, France (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - Solvay and AREVA have signed an agreement to develop new applications for the use of thorium, an element that is abundantly present in the earth's crust and part of rare earth elements or uranium. The agreement aims to define the conditions ensuring the responsible management of thorium. It includes the deployment of a R and D program to study, amongst others, the use of thorium as a poten ... more |  |
Over 1,000 protest in Niger against French nuclear firm Areva Niamey (AFP) Dec 21, 2013 - More than 1,000 demonstrators marched in the Niger capital Niamey on Saturday to protest against their country's "unbalanced" partnership with nuclear firm Areva as the French giant negotiates a new uranium mining agreement with the government. The protesters, including students, rights activists and politicians, chanted "Down with Areva!" and "No to a win-lose contract" as they made their w ... more |  |
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Finland's Fennovoima inks reactor deal with Russia's Rosatom Helsinki (AFP) Dec 22, 2013 - Finnish power company Fennovoima has signed an agreement with Russia's Rosatom for the delivery of a mid-sized nuclear reactor, the Finnish company said in a statement. The planned reactor, of the type AES-2006, will be located in Pyhaejoki in northwest Finland and be operational in 2024, Fennovoima said. As part of the agreement signed Saturday, Rosatom will take a 34-percent stake in F ... more |  |
Japan to boost financial support for Fukushima operator Tokyo (AFP) Dec 20, 2013 - Japan will nearly double financial support for the operator of Fukushima to $86 billion, as the government vowed to speed up the removal of contaminated soil and compensation for victims. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ministers Friday held a meeting of the nuclear emergency response headquarters and adopted new guidelines they hope will speed up recovery from the disaster more than two-a ... more | |
Fukushima's last two reactors to be decommissioned Tokyo (UPI) Dec 19, 2013 - Tokyo Electric Power Company, operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, will decommission the facility's two remaining reactors, Units 5 and 6. Reactors 1 to 4 were declared defunct in April, 2012, 13 months after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami. That leaves Japan with just 48 operable nuclear reactors, all of which remain offline, pending safety ch ... more |  |
Brussels opens probe into UK state aid for new nuclear plant Brussels (AFP) Dec 18, 2013 - The European Commission on Wednesday said it had opened "an in-depth investigation" to see whether plans by the British government to subsidise a new nuclear plant comply with EU state aid rules. "The Commission has doubts that the project suffers from a genuine market failure," it said in a statement. Britain's coalition government in October signed a 16-billion pound($26-billion, 18.9-bill ... more |  |
TEPCO to decommission surviving Fukushima reactors Tokyo (AFP) Dec 18, 2013 - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Wednesday it will decommission two reactors at the troubled site that escaped major physical damage from the 2011 tsunami. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said its management board decided permanently to shut down reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. The plant had a total of six reactors when a record 9.0-mag ... more |  |
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 Santa takes gourmet dinner to Japan nuclear evacuees Koriyama, Japan (AFP) Dec 17, 2013 - When Santa arrived at a school hosting children who fled Japan's nuclear disaster, he brought the usual presents, but he also bore something a little less ordinary - gourmet Christmas dinner. The "Caravan Bon Appetite" is an initiative of French chefs in Japan who originally rushed to help provide basic food to survivors of the huge earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 18,000 and wr ... more |  |
Ratepayers Could Save $1.7 Billion If Aging Nuclear Plant At Hanford, Washington Is Closed Seattle WA (SPX) Dec 16, 2013 - Ratepayers could save at least $1.7 billion over the next 17 years if the Columbia Generating Station nuclear power plant on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is closed according to a new report by McCullough Research of Portland, Oregon. The Columbia Generating Station, the only nuclear plant completed of the five plants begun by the Washington Public Power Supply System ... more |  |
US Risks Losing Critical Clean Electricity if Nuclear Power Plants Keep Closing at Steady Pace Washington DC (SPX) Dec 12, 2013 - Four nuclear power plants, sources of low-emissions electricity, have announced closings this year. If plants continue to shut down instead of extending operations the nation risks losing 60 percent of its clean electricity starting in 2030, according to a new report, Renewing Licenses for the Nation's Nuclear Power Plant by the American Physical Society. Power plants across the country, i ... more |  |
Japan to spend $970 mn on nuclear soil store: report Tokyo (AFP) Dec 11, 2013 - Japan is planning to earmark 100 billion yen ($970 million) for a storage facility for tens of thousands of tonnes of soil contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima disaster, a report said Wednesday. The government will set aside the cash to buy some 3 to 5 square kilometres (1.2 to 2 square miles) of land somewhere near the crippled plant, the Asahi Shimbun reported. But finding a ... more |  |
US takes last shipment of Russian uranium Washington (AFP) Dec 10, 2013 - The United States has taken delivery of its last shipment of downgraded uranium from Russia, signaling the end of a 20-year program to neutralize around 500 tonnes of the weapons-grade material, the White House said Tuesday. "Today the United States and Russia are commemorating the completion of one of the most successful non-proliferation programs in our history," National Security Council ... more |  |
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