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The Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade on 8 July published a resolution giving preliminary approval for Elektrárna Dukovany II, a subsidiary of power utility CEZ, which is 70% state-owned, to build at least one new reactor, with up to three more at the Dukovany and Temelín nuclear plants.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 11 July 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsczech-republic-commits-to-nuclear-new-build-7307498.1
A new agency has been established in Turkey to regulate the nuclear energy sector, the Official Gazette announced on 9 July.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 13 July 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsturkey-sets-up-new-nuclear-regulator-6244883
Japan’s Toshiba Corp’s US nuclear subsidiary, Westinghouse Electric, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York court. Westinghouse listed $10bn each in assets and liabilities in its filing in US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 29 March 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswestinghouse-files-for-bankruptcy-5773901
Korea Electric Power Corp (Kepco) has dismissed speculation that it is consiering buying Toshiba’s controlling stake in US-based Westinghouse, but confirmed an interest in joining the NuGen consortium that is planning to build the Moorside NPP in the UK using Westinghouse technology.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Sunday, 26 March 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskorea-eyes-nugen-stake-5771508
France's Areva SA on 1 March announced a loss of €665m ($700m) in 2016, compared with a 2015 loss of just over €2bn, noting that it had received no claims from customers following manufacturing irregularities at its Creusot Forges foundry.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 02 March 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsareva-reduces-losses-but-difficulties-continue-5753415
Russia's permanent representative to international organisations in Vienna (including the International Atomic Energy Agency), Vladimir Voronkov, said on 30 June that the Akkuyu NPP project in Turkey could now move forward. The project had been effectively (but not formally) frozen since November 2015 when a Turkish fighter jet shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber over Syria. However, an apology from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan now seems to have ended the stalemate.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 July 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsturkeys-akkuyu-npp-may-now-move-forward-4941448
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) has begun examining a "concrete proposal" to take a minority stake in French state-owned Areva's reactor unit.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Sunday, 08 November 2015
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmitsubishi-considering-concrete-proposal-for-areva-stake-4713616
With nuclear construction effectively frozen in Japan, in the wake of Fukushima, Japanese nuclear power businesses increasingly are turning their eyes abroad, The Nikkei reported. Engineering companies and general contractors are following, racing to carve out slices of the construction market.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 02 November 2015
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjapans-nuclear-companies-look-to-foreign-projects-4708455
6 May (NucNet): France and Japan will cooperate on the development of Generation IV fast breeder reactors (FBR) including the Astrid project, which is under development in France.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 06 May 2014
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/france-and-japan-announce-cooperation-on-generation-iv-astrid-fbr