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US Trade & Development Agency (USTDA) Director Enoh T Ebong has announced funding for a series of international workshops to promote US-led civil nuclear energy deployment in Europe and Eurasia. “Civil nuclear energy holds promise as a clean and secure energy solution, and USTDA is at the forefront of supporting our partners both to develop frameworks for deployment and to advance their individual infrastructure needs,” she said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 30 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsustda-to-fund-workshops-on-nuclear-deployment-in-europe-and-eurasia-11642682
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has received a shipment of used next-generation light water reactor LWR) fuel from a commercial NPP to support research and testing for the first time in two decades. INL said it had received 25 experimental fuel rods irradiated in the reactor core of a commercial reactor. The fuel rods were developed and manufactured by Westinghouse Electric Company with technical assistance from several US national laboratories, including INL.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 31 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsinl-receives-irradiated-next-generation-fuel-for-testing-11473480
Canada’s Cameco has announced that acquisition of?Westinghouse Electric Company in a strategic partnership with Brookfield Asset Management alongside Brookfield Renewable Partners and institutional partners has been completed. Cameco now owns a 49% interest and Brookfield a 51% in Westinghouse.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 15 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscameco-and-brookfield-complete-acquisition-of-westinghouse-11297387
Cameco has announced that its joint acquisition of Westinghouse Electric Company with Brookfield Asset Management, alongside its publicly listed affiliate Brookfield Renewable Partners and institutional partners, has now received all required regulatory approvals. The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared the Cameco Corp and Brookfield Renewable Partners' $7.875bn deal to acquire Westinghouse Electric. CMA, which began considering the deal in August, said it will not refer the merger for further investigation.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 09 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscameco-and-brookfield-receive-regulatory-approval-to-acquire-westinghouse-11282477
Cameco Corporation and Brookfield Renewable Partners, together with its institutional partners (the consortium), are forming a strategic partnership to acquire Westinghouse Electric Company. Brookfield Renewable, with its institutional partners, will own a 51% interest in Westinghouse and Cameco will own 49%.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 14 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscameco-and-brookfield-renewable-to-acquire-westinghouse-10084610
There is no credible net-zero scenario in which nuclear does not grow its capacity from today, global asset management company Brookfield said in a newly released White Paper.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 04 October 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Brookfield-sees-new-dawn-for-nuclear
US engineering and construction firm Bechtel has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with two affiliates of Japan's Toshiba to collaborate on the delivery of steam turbines and generators for Poland's first nuclear power plant.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 09 June 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Bechtel-teams-up-with-Toshiba-for-Polish-new-build
The nuclear industry has merely scratched the surface of the flexible benefits of nuclear power, according to panellists in a conference held this week ahead of the 11th Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM11). The CEM11 side-event, Flexibility in Clean Energy Systems: The Enabling Roles of Nuclear Energy, included high-level speakers from the International Energy Agency (IEA), the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as well as government officials from Canada, the UK and the USA. Hosted by Saudi Arabia, CEM11 will take place on 22 September.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 18 September 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclears-flexibility-is-the-magic-to-create-a-clea
Hitachi announced today it will end its business operations on the Wylfa Newydd nuclear power plant construction project, which it had suspended in January 2019 "because it was clear that further time was needed to decide on a financing structure". Horizon Nuclear Power, the UK project developer that Hitachi acquired in November 2012, said it will now take steps for the "orderly closing down" of all its current development activities, but will "keep the lines of communication open" with government and other key stakeholders regarding future options at both its sites, which in addition to Wylfa Newydd on Anglesey, include Oldbury on Severn in South Gloucestershire.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 17 September 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Hitachi-withdraws-from-UK-new-build-project
Brookfield has completed its purchase of Westinghouse Electric Company from Japan's Toshiba Corporation, marking Westinghouse's exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as a restructured company.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 02 August 2018
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Westinghouse-sale-to-Brookfield-completed