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Framatome earns high safety marks from US nuclear commission
Apr 07, 2020 (SPX)
"We hold our manufacturing facilities around the world to the highest standards of excellence for safety, quality, performance and delivery," said Lionel Gaiffe...
Visual inspection in nuclear environments
Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)
For the high radiation environments experienced in Nuclear Power stations, Nuclear fuel recycling plant and high energy physics facilities, conventional TV came...
Protests as Moscow moves to build road on radioactive dump
Mar 18, 2020 (AFP)
Greenpeace and other activists have long campaigned against the project to build an eight-lane motorway over the top of a tree-lined slope in southern Moscow th...
Atomic fingerprint identifies emission sources of uranium
Mar 10, 2020 (SPX)
These results were lately found by an international team grouped around physicists from the University of Vienna and provides a promising new "fingerprint" for ...
US military plans portable mini nuclear power plants
Mar 09, 2020 (AFP)
The US Defense Department awarded three contracts for the engineering design of the mobile reactors, targeting a one to five megawatt capacity. The project, dub...
Pentagon seeks designs for portable nuclear reactors
Mar 09, 2020 (UPI)
The "micoreactors," with two megawatts of power, would be used by installations and bases affected by potential downed electrical grids, and would reduce the re...
Study analyzes impact of switch from nuclear power to coal, suggests directions for policy
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
The study, by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, appears in Resource and Energy Economics. "By calculatin...
GE Hitachi Progresses Vendor Design Review in Canada for BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
"As the demand for affordable, clean, carbon-free energy grows, there is considerable global interest in the BWRX-300 SMR and Canada is poised to play an import...
VTT develops a Small Modular Reactor for district heating
Feb 26, 2020 (SPX)
Nuclear energy is the single largest source of electricity in Finland, currently covering about one third of the domestic production. The greenhouse gas emissio...
Framatome opens new research and operations center and expands Intercontrole in Cadarache, France
Feb 25, 2020 (SPX)
"It's an honor to open these new facilities that position us closer to our customers and industry partners, and highlight our people and celebrate their enginee...
France begins shutting down oldest nuclear plant
Feb 22, 2020 (AFP)
Environmentalists and anti-nuclear activists have long pushed the authorities to close down the plant but not everyone agrees and some locals protested that its...
DR Congo govt gives go-ahead to restarting nuclear reactor
Feb 21, 2020 (AFP)
"The government has given its agreement to restarting the Trico II reactor," the official account of Thursday's cabinet meeting said. The one-megawatt reactor b...
Framatome teams with General Atomics to advance PROtect enhanced accident tolerant fuel technologies
Feb 21, 2020 (SPX)
"Teaming with General Atomics is just one more example of our commitment to operational excellence by leveraging industry experts to advance today's fuel design...
Framatome signs service contracts with Finnish utility TVO to support long-term operation of Olkiluoto 3 EPR
Feb 20, 2020 (SPX)
"These contracts mark an important step as we work with TVO to prepare for the operation of the EPR at Olkiluoto 3," said Bernard Fontana, CEO of Framatome. "Th...
France shuts oldest reactors, but nuclear power still reigns
Feb 20, 2020 (AFP)
Unplugging the two reactors at Fessenheim, along the Rhine near France's eastern border with Germany and Switzerland, became a key goal of anti-nuclear campaign...
VTT and its partners are developing nuclear power plant decommissioning into a business
Feb 20, 2020 (SPX)
VTT's newly launched dECOmm project (Finnish Ecosystem for New International Decommissioning Services) brings together Finnish expertise that will prove useful ...
UAE loads fuel rods at Arab world's first nuclear plant
Feb 19, 2020 (AFP)
On Monday, the national nuclear regulator announced it has issued the operating license for the first of the plant's four reactors, opening the way for commerci...
Framatome to implement full-scale digital protective relay upgrade at a US nuclear power plant
Feb 18, 2020 (SPX)
The transition from electromechanical to modern numerical protection relay technology for electrical distribution systems supports the renewal of nuclear power ...
TPU researchers discover how to improve safety of nuclear power plants
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
Previously, a team of researchers from the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, Tomsk Polytechnic University, a...
UAE issues licence for first Arab nuclear power plant
Feb 17, 2020 (AFP)
The UAE has substantial energy reserves, but with a power-hungry population of 10 million it has made huge investments in developing alternative power sources i...
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