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US-based Curtiss-Wright’s Nuclear Division (Curtiss-Wright) has signed an exclusive sales agreement with Spain’s Ringo Válvulas (Ringo Valves), a subsidiary of Samson AG Group. Curtiss-Wright will act as Ringo’s sole sales channel for the Commercial Nuclear markets in North America, South Korea, and Taiwan.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 28 July 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscurtiss-wright-signs-exclusive-agreement-with-ringo-valves-8044954
Romania plans to create a Strategic Coordination Committee for the project to build units 3 and 4 at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant, according to a notice in the government’s official gazette on 14 July. The notice followed another published the same day, stating that the prime minister's 2018 decision to establish a working group for the negotiation of a draft intergovernmental agreement between Romania and China for the project had been abrogated.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 17 July 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Romania-restarts-approach-to-new-Cernavoda-units
Unit 1 at Canada’s Darlington nuclear power plant has set a new North American nuclear record for consecutive days in operation, Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 14 July 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscanadas-darlington-1-breaks-record-for-nuclear-plant-operation-8022407
Darlington unit 1 has set a new Canadian and North American nuclear record with 895 consecutive days of unbroken operation. Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) Candu reactor has now been online since 26 January 2018 without needing to be taken out of service for maintenance or repair.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 11 July 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Candu-unit-sets-North-American-operating-record
Canada’s SNC-Lavalin announced that its subsidiary Candu Energy had won two contracts from Romania’s Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica to perform fuel channel and feeder assembly inspections at Cernavoda 1 during its 2020 maintenance outage.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 12 June 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssnc-lavalin-wins-inspection-contract-at-cernavoda-7967829
Unit 2 of Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) Darlington nuclear power plant has been reconnected to the grid at 100% full power, marking the official completion of the first refurbishment of the site's four Candu units.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 06 June 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-Darlington-refurbishment-complete
The company said the transaction expands its comprehensive portfolio of equipment and tooling for nuclear power plant inspections and maintenance.
The acquisition involves an exchange of facilities and resources. Framatome assumes ownership of equipment, tooling and contracts related to BWXT’s US commercial nuclear services business, while transferring to BWXT ownership of a portion of its Mt. Athos Road facility in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Mt. Athos Road is the site of Framatome’s “solutions complex”, which includes a technical centre, pump and motor service centre, and chemistry and materials centre.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 04 June 2020
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/bwxt-acquisition-aims-to-boost-company-s-nuclear-inspections-and-maintenance-business-6-3-2020
Canada’s Bruce Power said on 1 May that unit 1 at the Bruce nuclear power plant had set a record of 624 consecutive days of reliable operation – the longest since it was returned to service in 2012.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 May 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsoperating-record-for-bruce-power-as-covid-19-support-council-announced-7903916
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has entered into a collaboration agreement with UK-based Moltex Energy. Funded through CNL's Canadian Nuclear Research Initiative (CNRI), the agreement includes work to support aspects of Moltex Energy’s nuclear fuel development programme for its Stable Salt Reactor, a 300 MWe small modular reactor (SMR) design.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 25 April 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/CNL-Moltex-collaborate-on-SMR-fuel-development
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) has signed a contract with Canadian nuclear engineering firm Kinectrics to provide decommissioning engineering support, building on a memorandum of understanding on the dismantling of nuclear power plants they signed in August 2019. The contract will see Korean nuclear power plant decommissioning personnel dispatched overseas for the first time.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 10 April 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/KHNP-to-support-Canadian-decommissioning-projects