Unit 4 of China’s Yangjiang NPP in Guangdong province began supplying electricity to the grid on 8 January, China General Nuclear (CGN) announced the next day.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsanother-chinese-unit-yangjiang-4-connected-to-grid-5714029
US Entergy Corp on 9 January reached an agreement with New York state to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant in 2021, ending a long-running dispute over the future of the plant. Environmental groups and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had pushed for years to close Indian Point, arguing that it posed environmental dangers to the city.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsclosure-agreed-of-us-indian-point-npp-5714021
Unit 1 at Japan’s Sendai NPP in Kagoshima Prefecture resumed commercial operation on 7 January after a planned two-month maintenance and refuelling outage, the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (Jaif) said on 10 January.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjapans-sendai-resumes-operation-5714185
Units 3 and 4 at the United Arab Emirates' Barakah nuclear power plant are more than half complete, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) announced on 9 January.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuaes-barakah-npp-75-complete-5714037
The UK government has requested nuclear regulators to begin the generic design assessment (GDA) process for a UK version of China’s indigenous HPR1000 (Hualong One), a 1000MWe pressurised water reactor.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-embarks-on-gda-for-chinas-hualong-one-5713997
Kazakhstan plans to produce 10% less uranium in 2017 than previously planned in response to ongoing oversupply in the uranium market, KazAtomProm chairman Askar Zhumagaliyev announced today.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2017
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Oversupply-prompts-Kazakh-uranium-production-cut
Canada’s Ontario Power Generation (OPG) said on 5 January that relocating a proposed deep geologic repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste from the Bruce NPP site in Ontario to an alternative location would probably have a greater environmental effect including increased impact on air quality, land use, vegetation and wildlife.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscanadas-opg-stands-by-bruce-repository-plans-5712997
Australia-based Berkeley Energia has begun construction on its Salamanca uranium mine in northwestern Spain, the company said on 5 January.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsconstruction-of-spanish-uranium-mine-begins-5712985
The Hungarian National Atomic Energy Office (OAH) has extended the operating licence unit 3 at the Paks NPP by 20 years until 2036, state news agency MTI has reported.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshungary-extends-paks-3-operating-licence-5712976
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) paper has looked at an alternative method for producing molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), which could help increase the supply of the key medical isotope.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-looks-at-alternative-mo-99-production-method-5712928
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