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Fuel cycle roundup #7
• Pinon Ridge licence re-issued
• Approval for Lost Creek dryers
• Gas Hills resource estimate
• Denison completes on Fission
Uranium & Fuel
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Tuesday, 30 April 2013
New steam generators arrive at Prairie Island
Areva has delivered two replacement steam generators for use in Xcel Energy's Prairie Island nuclear power plant in Minnesota.
Corporate
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Monday, 29 April 2013
ESBWR back as proposed North Anna unit
Dominion has reverted to GE-Hitachi's Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) as the favoured technology for the proposed third unit at its North Anna plant in Virginia.
New Nuclear
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Friday, 26 April 2013
Try again on US-South Korea cooperation deal
Decisions on the future of South Korea's fuel cycle have been put off for another two years. The country wants to recycle and reprocess used reactor fuel but requires American consent.
Nuclear Policies
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Thursday, 25 April 2013
Shots fired at Watts Bar
Security guards at Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar nuclear power plant fired shots yesterday morning in an incident which is now under investigation.
Regulation & Safety
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Monday, 22 April 2013
Uprates completed at Florida plants
Florida Power & Light is celebrating the completion of a major five-year upgrade program that has added over 500 MWe of capacity to four reactors at its Turkey Point and St Lucie sites.
Corporate
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Monday, 22 April 2013
Rethink slows MOX construction
Work on a facility to convert weapons plutonium into reactor fuel is to be slowed down as the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) reconsiders its plutonium disposition strategy.
Waste & Recycling
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Thursday, 18 April 2013
SMR funding signed, sealed and delivered
A formal agreement with the US Department of Energy (DoE) means that Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) mPower can access the first $79 million of federal funding under a government program to accelerate commercialization of small modular reactors (SMRs).
New Nuclear
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Update to US emergency guidelines
The US Environmental Protection Agency has drafted new guidelines to protect workers and the public in a radiological emergency. Open for public comment, the latest draft is an update to EPA guidelines issued in 1992.
Regulation & Safety
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Jail sentence for falsification
An American court has sentenced a former engineering safety manager to 78 months in prison for falsifying information about injuries at three nuclear power plant sites.
Regulation & Safety
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Monday, 15 April 2013
US nuclear safety goes from strength to strength
Contracts have been signed for the operation of two regional US response centres to manage emergency backup equipment, while newly released performance metrics for 2012 show US plants achieving good safety performances.
Regulation & Safety
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Friday, 12 April 2013
TVA surprise at possible sell-off
A strategic review of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced as part of the US federal budget will consider the possible sale of all or part of the government-owned corporation. TVA executives appear to have been taken by surprise by the news.
Corporate
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Thursday, 11 April 2013
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Areva has delivered two replacement steam generators for use in Xcel Energy's Prairie Island nuclear power plant in Minnesota.
Dominion has reverted to GE-Hitachi's Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) as the favoured technology for the proposed third unit at its North Anna plant in Virginia._615x170.jpg)
_72x48.jpg "Watts Bar (TVA) 72x48")
Security guards at Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar nuclear power plant fired shots yesterday morning in an incident which is now under investigation.
Florida Power & Light is celebrating the completion of a major five-year upgrade program that has added over 500 MWe of capacity to four reactors at its Turkey Point and St Lucie sites._72x48.jpg "Installation work in MOX Process Building, June 2010 (NNSA) 72x48")
Work on a facility to convert weapons plutonium into reactor fuel is to be slowed down as the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) reconsiders its plutonium disposition strategy.
A formal agreement with the US Department of Energy (DoE) means that Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) mPower can access the first $79 million of federal funding under a government program to accelerate commercialization of small modular reactors (SMRs). 
An American court has sentenced a former engineering safety manager to 78 months in prison for falsifying information about injuries at three nuclear power plant sites.
A strategic review of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced as part of the US federal budget will consider the possible sale of all or part of the government-owned corporation. TVA executives appear to have been taken by surprise by the news.