Ukrainian nuclear utility Energoatom and US-based Westinghouse are launching an internship programme for Ukrainian nuclear professionals in the USA, during which more than 60 specialists and graduate-level students will receive training in AP1000 plant technology.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsukrainian-nuclear-specialists-to-study-ap1000-technology-in-usa-9913460
The first contract awarded as part of the Programme and Project Partners new goods and services agreement will see key connections installed between existing and new facilities at the UK’s Sellafield site. Ansaldo Nuclear, based in Wolverhampton, has been selected to develop the key ‘tie-in’ connections that will support the flow of effluent treatment streams between the Sellafield site’s existing Site Ion Exchange Effluent Plant (SIXEP) facility and the new SIXEP Continuity Plant being delivered by the Programme and Project Partners at Sellafield. Together the two facilities will act as the ‘kidneys’ of the Sellafield site filtering out nuclear material before being safely discharged to sea.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsansaldo-contracted-to-support-new-sellafield-facility-9913507
The 25th batch of Russian electrical equipment was successfully delivered to the construction site of the international thermonuclear experimental reactor Iter in France, Russia’s Iter Centre has reported. The last of 14 trailers with Russian equipment, which started earlier from St Petersburg, had reached its destination in the south of France.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-delivers-more-electrical-equipment-to-iter-9913489
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, has awarded a $103 million contract to Westinghouse Government Services of South Carolina for the decommissioning, dismantling and disposal of the deactivated SM-1A nuclear power plant at Fort Greely, Alaska.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsusace-contracts-westinghouse-to-decommission-alaskan-reactor-9913527
French regulator Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN) has given EDF formal notice to comply with the provisions of the safety report for reactors 2, 4 and 5 of the Bugey NPP, relating to limiting the risk of the foundation raft piercing the reactor building in the event of a serious accident. In February 2021, ASN set out the requirements applicable to 900MWe reactors based on the conclusions of the generic phase of their fourth periodic safety review. In particular, it prescribed implementation of technical devices to keep the reactor pit dry, to spread the corium on the bottom of the reactor pit and the adjacent room and passive reflooding of the corium by water, in order to prevent the foundation slab from being breached in the event of core meltdown.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrench-regulator-orders-safety-upgrades-at-bugey-npp-9913618
Localization of the construction of the El-Dabaa NPP being built in Egypt by Rosatom will be more than 25%, Rosatom Director General Aleksey Likhachev said on 3 August on the sidelines of Russia’s annual AtomSkills championship. Rosatom expects that the localisation of work at the El-Dabaa plant could reach 50% or more during construction. "We expect that localisation to be above 25% in general in terms of construction volume. But at the construction stage, of course, most of it will be produced by Egyptian companies. So, at the stage of general construction work, it will be more than 50%," he said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newslocalisation-at-egypts-el-dabaa-npp-to-be-25-50-9913784
Finland’s Fennovoima Oy, which was the customer for the construction of the Hanhikivi-1 NPP with Russian participation is preparing for litigation from Rosatom for an advance payment of €799.8 million after the Finnish government cancelled the project in the wake of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, business publication Kauppalehti has reported, citing financial statements of Fennovoima.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfennovoima-expects-legal-action-from-rosatom-9913803
US-based Holtec International has reported that Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has placed its first order for used fuel and damaged fuel storage racks for its new away-from-reactor wet storage facility for the Kudankulam NPP (KKNPP) from Holtec subsidiary Holtec Asia. The away-from-reactor facility will serve units 1 and 2 of KKNPP in the state of Tamil Nadu. KKNPP uses Russian-designed VVER 1000 reactors.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsindias-npcil-orders-holtec-fuel-storage-racks-for-kudankulam-9913816
“This reckless behaviour by the Russian military forces poses a great danger to the plant’s safe operation increasing significantly the risk of a nuclear accident and must not happen again,” Simson said in a statement.
While information obtained from the EU’s radioactivity monitoring systems and international sources does not indicate any increase of radioactivity in Ukraine or the EU nor any immediate radiation threat, military activities around nuclear power plants are “unacceptably dangerous”, Simson said. “The EU calls on Russia to ensure that repair works can be rapidly implemented and that the safety of the workers involved in them and in the operation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station is guaranteed.”
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/eu-joins-condemnation-of-shelling-at-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-station-8-2-2022
The Cyclotron Radiopharmacy Preclinical Complex (CRPC) and the Multipurpose Irradiation Centre (MIC) at the Centre for Research and Development in Nuclear Technology in Bolivia, have been put into trial operation.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-research-and-technology-centre-in-Bolivia
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