Researchers with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have been working to analyze used fuel assemblies to characterize them by composition in order to safely store them, the lab announced this week. Read More »

Bolivia and Russia recently entered into two Intergovernmental Agreements on nuclear power, one promoting cooperation on peaceful uses of atomic energy and one focusing on the construction of a Nuclear Research and Technology Center in Bolivia. Read More »

Westinghouse Electric Co. announced this week that it was selected by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to provide inspection and maintenance for four nuclear reactors. Read More »

Officials from Sauidi Arabia and Russia attended the first meeting of the Saudi-Russian Coordinating Committee for Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation this week, discussing an Intergovernmental Agreement the two countries signed in June 2015. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a meeting for April 4 to discuss a preliminary inspection finding about River Bend, the St. Francisville, Louisiana, nuclear power plant, with officials representing Entergy Operations Inc., the plant’s operator. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will host an open house on Wednesday, March 23 on its 2015 performance assessment for Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island 1 nuclear power plant, which the commission determined operated safely throughout last year. Read More »

Alabama Power announced several changes to its leadership this week, naming and electing five vice presidents and one senior vice president, which will go into effect on March 28. Read More »

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff will be in Hartsville, South Carolina, to hold an open house on its 2015 performance assessment of the nearby Robinson nuclear plant, which achieved the NRC’s best safety ratings throughout 2015. Read More »

Representatives from Rusatom Overseas and Bulgaria’s Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant recently met at the plant to discuss an assessment and evaluation project Rusatom is taking on for the power plant’s Unit 5 reactor. Read More »

Jacobs Engineering Group said recently that it has received a sub-contract from Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC to provide telecommunications services and maintenance to the Savannah River Site, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear-materials refinery near Aiken, South Carolina. Read More »

Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant in Lusby, Maryland, returned its Unit 1 reactor to full power this week after a scheduled refueling and maintenance work outage. Read More »

AREVA subsidiary AREVA TN recently added to its used-fuel storage portfolio with two long-term contracts worth a combined $200 million to supply canisters to several undisclosed U.S. utilities. Read More »

Westinghouse Electric Co. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ukraine’s PJSC Turboatum this week, agreeing to pursue increased capacity in the country’s nuclear power plants, and others around the world, through cooperative efforts. Read More »

New York State Sen. Patty Ritchie said this week that the state Senate allocated $100 million in renewable-energy tax credits in its budget plan, which could keep Oswego County’s FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant open. Read More »

Lightbridge Corp. and AREVA NP reached a joint development agreement (JDA) this week to facilitate the development and manufacture of Lightbridge's metallic fuel assembly design concept. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) held an open house in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on Wednesday on the 2015 performance review of the Catawba nuclear power plant near York, South Carolina. Read More »

EDF Energy this week celebrated the results of the latest Citizens Advice quarterly survey of customer satisfaction with Great Britain’s 19 largest energy suppliers, which saw the company receive the fewest complaints for the last quarter of 2015. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said this week that it has named Mike Cain the new senior resident inspector at the BWX Technologies (BWXT) nuclear fuel facility in Lynchburg, Virginia. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hold an open house on its performance review of the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Plant, near Shippingport, Pennsylvania, 5-6:30 p.m. Monday at the Shippingport Community and Municipal Building, 163 State Road 3016. Read More »

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz told D.C. lawmakers recently that innovation would be a top priority for the rest of the current fiscal year, the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) said this week. Read More »