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Westinghouse Electric and Metrostav sign MoU for Czech nuclear plant
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Czech company Metrostav for the potential construction of nuclear power plants in the Czech...

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and SSF partner on Finnish power project
Friday, January 27, 2012 GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has signed a project development memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Finnish software and systems engineering firm Space Systems Finland...

Rolls-Royce wins supply contract for nuclear reactor upgrade in France
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 UK-based Rolls-Royce has secured a €250m contract with Areva to supply safety instruments, control technologies and systems for its nuclear reactor modernisation programme in...

EDF Energy to award contracts for UK nuke projects
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 EDF Energy plans to award a package of new contracts worth £200m to various companies for the supply of equipment for its planned nuclear projects in the...

Studsvik signs contract with EDF Energy Nuclear
Thursday, December 01, 2011 Nuclear service provider Studsvik has signed a Skr94.5m ($13.6m) contract with EDF Energy Nuclear Generation to carry out material testing on nuclear...

Vietnam to receive $8bn loan for nuclear plant
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Vietnam will receive a $8bn loan from Russia to build its first nuclear power plant in Ninh...

Dominion Virginia restarts nuclear power station in the US
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Dominion Virginia Power has restarted operations of its 1,800MW North Anna Power Station in the US state of Virginia, after securing permission from the US Nuclear Regulatory...

Areva completes equipment installation at Finnish nuke plant
Friday, November 11, 2011 Areva has completed installation of equipment at the Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) EPR reactor project in...

Shaw renews nuclear maintenance contract with Exelon
Monday, November 07, 2011 Shaw has renewed its contract with Exelon Generation for the maintenance, modifications and construction services of 17 nuclear generating plants in the...

Fukushima nuclear plant stable after new earthquake jolt
Monday, October 10, 2011 Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant remains stable, despite a 5.5 magnitude offshore earthquake hitting the surrounding area today, according to operator Tokyo Electric Power...

OJSC launches new turbines for nuclear power plant
Friday, October 07, 2011 OJSC Power Machines (OJSC) has successfully tested a high-speed turbine designed for the Leningradskaya first power unit (LNPP-2) in Russia, the company has...

Brazil to construct nuclear plants
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Brazilan Energy Minister Edison Lobao has unveiled plans to build four more nuclear plants to increase the nation's nuclear power-generation...

Siemens to withdraw from nuclear energy business
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Germany-based engineering firm Siemens has said it will withdraw from the nuclear energy business to concentrate on expanding its renewable energy...

TEPCO to shut down reactors at Fukushina nuclear plant by 2012
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) has set a target to ensure the safe shutdown of nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan by January 2012. Japan's economy, trade and...

TEPCO could decommission Fuksuhima Dai-Ni plant
Friday, September 16, 2011 Electric utility Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) may decommission the Fukushima Dai-Ni nuclear power plant in Japan, the country's industry minister has said. Yukio Edano told the Kyodo News...

Blast at French nuclear treatment centre kills worker
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 Four people were critically injured and one killed in an industrial accident at the Maracoule nuclear site in the south of France on Monday. The explosion was caused by a fire near a furnace...

Toshiba to acquire Shaw Group interest in Westinghouse
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 Toshiba is currently in talks to acquire Shaw Group's 20% interest in nuclear power plant company Westinghouse Electric Co. In 2006, engineering services company Shaw partnered with Toshiba...

BGR Energy secures turnkey implementation contract from NPCIL
Thursday, September 01, 2011 BGR Energy Systems electrical projects division has secured a Rs4.44bn ($96m) turnkey implementation contract from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL). The firm will supply, test...

GE Hitachi secures nuclear services contract from Exelon
Thursday, September 01, 2011 GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has secured a $150m integrated outage contract from Exelon Nuclear to ensure the safety and performance of the boiling water reactors (BWR) at nuclear plants in...

Japanese utility postpones scheduled maintenance at Anan power plant
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Electric utility Shikoku Electric Power has postponed its planned maintenance work at its 450MW No 3 unit at the Anan plant in Japan, which was originally scheduled from 3 September to 9...