Decommissioning
Areva awarded R&D contract for nuclear decommissioning
AREVA has been selected as one of the companies for an R&D framework contract by the UK Nuclear...
Lightbridge and Vietnam’s Civil Nuclear Regulatory Agency sign nuclear safety training deal
US nuclear energy company Lightbridge and the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety (VARANS) have signed a...
Bruce Power: Unit 3 removed from service for planned maintenance outage
Bruce Power removed Unit 3 from service earlier this week as it embarks on a planned maintenance outage...
Bruce Power: Unit 1 sets new post-refurbishment long run record
Unit 1 at Bruce Power’s Bruce A generating station set a new post-refurbishment record run today as it...
US DOE extends Portsmouth decontamination and decommissioning contract through 2018
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has exercised its option to extend the current decontamination and decommissioning work...
Solidification plant for Fortum’s Loviisa power plant’s liquid radioactive waste starts operation
The Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) has granted Loviisa nuclear power plant's solidification plant a permission...
Exelon begins scheduled refueling outage at Calvert Cliffs Unit 1
Operators removed Calvert Cliffs' Unit 1 from service early this morning for a planned refueling and maintenance outage....
Dubai signs MoU with European Federation of Agencies
The Dubai Supreme Council of Energy has signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the European Federation of...
Areva signs $300m uranium enrichment contracts in 2015
In 2015, AREVA was awarded several long-term contracts by four U.S. utilities for uranium enrichment services totaling more...
New remote-controlled machines to enable safer decommissioning of nuclear reactors
Engineers from Lancaster University are working on a new project to enable safer decommissioning of nuclear reactors. A...
NRC to conduct special inspection at Oconee nuclear plant
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will begin a special inspection Tuesday at Duke Energy's Oconee nuclear power plant to...