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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.

Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsanother-chinese-unit-yangjiang-4-connected-to-grid-5714029

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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.

Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsclosure-agreed-of-us-indian-point-npp-5714021

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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.

Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjapans-sendai-resumes-operation-5714185

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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.

Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuaes-barakah-npp-75-complete-5714037

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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.

Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-embarks-on-gda-for-chinas-hualong-one-5713997

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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.

Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Oversupply-prompts-Kazakh-uranium-production-cut

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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.

Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscanadas-opg-stands-by-bruce-repository-plans-5712997

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Australia-based Berkeley Energia has begun construction on its Salamanca uranium mine in northwestern Spain, the company said on 5 January.

Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsconstruction-of-spanish-uranium-mine-begins-5712985

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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.

Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshungary-extends-paks-3-operating-licence-5712976

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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.

Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-looks-at-alternative-mo-99-production-method-5712928

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