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US-based BWX Technologies announced that the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Programme had exercised contract options totalling approximately $1 billion for manufacturing naval nuclear reactor components and fuel.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-contracted-to-manufacture-us-naval-nuclear-reactor-components-and-fuel-9513595
France’s Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Framatome and Naval Group have signed a six-year framework agreement for studies and experiments on materials used in nuclear propulsion.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscea-framatome-and-naval-group-to-study-nuclear-propulsion-9514045
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) announced that it was set to deactivate and demolish the prototype for a reactor plant used for the first nuclear-powered submarine, a major step toward advancing environmental clean-up at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 15 February 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-to-demolish-submarine-reactor-prototype-at-idaho-national-lab-9481309
The US Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is to deactivate and demolish the land-based prototype for a reactor plant used in the first nuclear-powered submarine. The Submarine 1st Generation Westinghouse (S1W) was built inside a section of a submarine hull at the Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) in the Arco Desert, west of Idaho Falls.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 12 February 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Preparations-begin-for-demolition-of-prototype-rea
US-based BWX Technologies (BWXT) announced on 31 March that the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Programme exercised contract options in Q1 2020 with BWXT’s subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) totalling approximately $128 million for fuel manufacturing work in support of US nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. Work under this 12-month contract is expected to begin later this year.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 03 April 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-subsidiary-wins-us-navy-contract-7853060
Uranium imports do not threaten the national security of the USA, President Donald Trump has decided in his response to the Uranium Miners’ Section 232 Petition. He did however call for a "fuller analysis" of national security considerations with respect to the entire nuclear fuel supply chain.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 16 July 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-President-rejects-uranium-import-restrictions
US nuclear contractor and vendor Babcock & Wilcox subsidiaries have lost management and operations contracts for two key US military sites, but other subsidiaries have won US naval reactors work.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 28 February 2014
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbw-loses-pantex-and-y-12-but-gains-military-nuclear-work-4187246
It is now 75 years since the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn and colleagues in Berlin. It is also 60 years after US president Dwight Eisenhower's UN address later known as the 'Atoms for Peace' speech, which essentially started the international nuclear supply industry.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 05 February 2014
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-power-and-the-civil-military-link-4171667
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has signed an agreement with Lockheed Martin, whose nuclear systems and solutions (NS&S) division will design and manufacture the main reactor control room systems for GEH’s Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactors (ESBWR).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 17 February 2011
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgeh-signs-up-lockheed-martin-for-esbwr-
B&W subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Operations Group, Inc.has been awarded a US military supply contract with a base value of $807 million ($2 billion with options). The contract is for the manufacture of nuclear components to support U.S. defense programs including the manufacture of naval nuclear power systems for submarines and aircraft carriers. The work will be performed over a 10-year period, beginning in January 2011.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 19 January 2011
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbw-wins-800-million-contract-for-navy-reactors