NRC decision on Yucca Mountain application soon

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will decide in the next few weeks whether the Department of Energy (DoE) can withdraw its application to construct a national spent fuel and high-level waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada...
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Fuel loading starts at new Chinese reactor

The first fuel assembly was loaded into the reactor of the new CPR-1000 unit on 21 April after state approval for the operation to begin, China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company (CGNPC) announced. A total of 157 fuel assemblies will be loaded into the reactor core in an operation expected to take five days to complete. The unit is scheduled to begin commercial operation by the end of 2010...
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Two out of three for Finland

Finnish leaders have made favourable decisions for two of the three nuclear projects put before them, meaning up to 4300 MWe in nuclear capacity could potentially come from private investment...
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Fairbanks Morse Engine to Supply Emergency Diesel Generator Sets for Planned Nuclear Reactors in Texas

Fairbanks Morse Engine, an EnPro Industries (NYSE: NPO) company, announced today that it has been awarded a contract to supply six safety related Fairbanks Morse Colt-Pielstick PC2.6B Emergency Diesel Generator sets (EDGs) to Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corp. (TANE) for installation at Units 3 & 4 of the STP Nuclear Operating Company in Matagorda County, Texas...
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1,200 nuclear plants projected worldwide by 2030

President Barack Obama's pledge that nuclear power will play a major role in clean energy came after decades of industry efforts to improve safety and efficiency, said Gary Gates, an industry expert and the president and CEO of the Omaha Public Power District...
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Construction of floating NPP goes as planned

Russia is continuing work on its first floating nuclear power plant, which will supply electricity to remote regions of the Arctic. The facility is being protected against hull corrosion, according to Motorship's website. Such a plant can run for 40 years and need refueling only once every decade...
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New Book on Nuclear Power vs Wind

Sen. Lamar Alexander took the opportunity of this week’s 40th anniversary celebration of Earth Day to highlight his ongoing promotion of expanding nuclear power as a better alternative to reduce carbon emissions that wind power...
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GE Hitachi’s Fuller to Seek Nuclear Recycling (Correct)

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is pushing the Obama administration to support new recycling technology that the company says would reduce the risk of proliferation and the storage needed for radioactive waste...
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US needs nuclear storage, fuel options-regulator

As the United States works to expand its nuclear fleet for the first time in three decades and extend the life of current reactors, thorny questions remain to be answered about the life cycle of nuclear fuel, a former nuclear regulator said on Wednesday...
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U.S. Keeps First-Strike Strategy

The Obama administration will release a new national nuclear-weapons strategy Tuesday that makes only modest changes to U.S. nuclear forces, leaving intact the longstanding U.S. threat to use nuclear weapons first, even against non-nuclear nations...
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Scientific Collaboration Key to Eliminating Nuclear Arsenals

Leading British and U.S. science organizations are calling for a stepped-up campaign of scientific cooperation to help lay the groundwork for global nuclear disarmament...
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Urenco Expects US Facility To Begin Operations In One Month

Urenco Group, the uranium-enrichment company part-owned by the U.K. and Dutch governments, Thursday said that its new plant in the U.S. is expected to enter commercial production within the next month. Chief Financial Officer Bart Le Blanc said: "The plant is ready to operate and awaiting a green light from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to be able to start commercial operations. We are confident that will happen in the next month or so."
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Energy Department to appeal over Yucca Mountain

The Department of Energy served notice Thursday it will appeal a move by federal regulators to delay decisions on terminating the Yucca Mountain project...
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Tactical, Reserve Nuke Cuts Seen on U.S. Agenda

The United States plans to seek negotiations with Russia on limiting battlefield nuclear weapons following ratification of a recently completed treaty governing deployments of larger, longer-range nuclear armaments, the Associated Press reported yesterday...
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Obama Curbs U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development, Usage Policy

The Obama administration today issued its Nuclear Posture Review, swearing off creation of new nuclear weapons and significantly limiting the circumstances under which such armaments could be used, according to news reports...
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74% in US Support Nuclear Power

Public support for nuclear energy in the USA has reached a record high, with 74% of people saying they are in favour of nuclear energy, according to the results of a new poll...
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New START Seen Facing Political, Technical Challenges in Russia

The successor agreement to a landmark U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms control treaty faces a number of political and technical challenges to its chances for ratification in Russia, a leading foreign policy expert said yesterday...
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NNSA Awards Contract For Nuke Labs Supercomputer

The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration said yesterday that it had selected Seattle-based Cray Inc. to produce a new high-tech supercomputer system to be used at the three NNSA nuclear weapons laboratories...
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U.S. Ratification of CTBT Faces Additional Challenges

The extended amount of time it took for the United States to negotiate a new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia is thought to have hurt the chances for U.S. Senate ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty this year, the Associated Press reported today...
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