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The World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) has said it remains “deeply concerned” about the situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), noting that plant operators were “facing unprecedented challenges in carrying out day-to-day operations and maintaining nuclear safety standards”.

Date: Friday, 28 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswano-expresses-concern-about-zaporizhzhia-npp-10122490

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Westinghouse Electric Co has filed a lawsuit against Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) in federal court to block them from selling reactors to Poland.

Date: Friday, 28 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswestinghouse-tries-to-exclude-south-korea-from-polands-npp-project-10122581

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US-based General Atomics (GA) has announced a new concept for a fusion pilot plant (FPP) to deliver economically viable fusion energy.

Date: Friday, 28 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgeneral-atomics-announces-plans-for-fusion-pilot-plant-10122682

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Workers from the Central Plateau Clean-up Company (CPC Co), contracted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) Office, have constructed a protective enclosure, or cocoon, over the former K East Reactor building at the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington. The cocoon is designed to protect the reactor building while the radioactivity in the deactivated reactor core decays over the next several decades, making it safer to complete disposition of the reactor in the future.

Date: Friday, 28 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsanother-closed-reactor-cocooned-at-us-hanford-site-10122750

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Holtec International has concluded a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Czech Republic’s Škoda Praha and South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering and Construction (HDEC) to advance the planning for construction of SMR-160s in the Czech Republic. The SMR-160 is a small modular pressurised light-water reactor, generating 160MWe (525MWt) using low-enriched uranium fuel, with flexibility to produce process heat for industrial applications and hydrogen production.

Date: Friday, 28 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsholtec-advances-plans-for-smr-160-deployment-in-czech-republic-10122770

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has said that work has begun at EM’s Idaho Clean-up Project (ICP), with the aim of achieving an end state for a Cold War-era landfill where clean-up has been completed. ICP and contractor Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC) signed a contract agreement outlining the scope, cost and schedule for demolishing above-ground, soft-sided structures at the 97-acre Subsurface Disposal Area (SDA) at EM’s Idaho National Laboratory Site.

Date: Friday, 28 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsclean-up-project-proceeds-at-idaho-national-laboratory-site-10122829

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NuScale Power and Prodigy Clean Energy Ltd have announced a new conceptual design for a transportable and marine-based small modular reactor (SMR) power generating facility that provides dramatically improved transportability, manufacturability, economics, safety, and security. The updated concept will be used for engagements with utilities, regulators, and shipyard manufacturers.

Date: Friday, 28 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuscale-power-and-prodigy-clean-energy-advance-smr-marine-facility-10122850

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Framatome has completed the second 18-month fuel cycle of its GAIA PROtect Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (EATF) technology at unit 2 of Georgia Power’s Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in the USA.

Date: Friday, 28 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsframatome-atf-completes-second-cycle-at-vogtle-npp-10122873

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The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) has finalised an agreement with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and committed $970 million towards Canada’s first small modular reactor (SMR). 

Date: Friday, 28 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfunding-announced-for-canadas-first-smr-10122891

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Minister of Energy Virgil Popescu says Canada and the USA are both offering to help with the financing of the construction of Cernavoda 3 and 4 and said the US firms Fluor Corporation and Sargent & Lundy, Canada's SNC Lavalin and France's Framatome had agreed to "explore opportunities for cooperation in the civil nuclear field" with Nuclearelectrica.

Date: Friday, 28 October 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Romania-s-Popescu-outlines-fresh-nuclear-partnersh

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