Nuclear Energy

NRC inspects Brunswick nuclear power plant in US

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will begin a special inspection on the unplanned shut down of the unit 2 reactor on 15 November at Progress Energy’s Brunswick nuclear power plant in the US state of North Carolina. ...

Nuclear power plant being upgraded in 2012

Southern California Edison (SCE) on Jan. 9 temporarily removed Unit 2 at its 2,200 MW San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station from service for a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage. During the outage, SCE said it will...

Shaw renews nuclear maintenance contract with Exelon

Shaw has renewed its contract with Exelon Generation for the maintenance, modifications and construction services of 17 nuclear generating plants in the US.It has been providing fleet-wide nuclear maintenance service to Exelon since 2001. Six of...

L-3 MAPPS to upgrade Pilgrim nuclear plant simulator

Canada-based L-3 Communications MAPPS (L-3 MAPPS) has secured a contract from Entergy Nuclear to upgrade the existing Pilgrim nuclear power station (PNPS) full scope simulator and to equip the plant with an additional classroom simulator. The...

Dominion Virginia restarts nuclear power station in the US

Dominion Virginia Power has restarted operations of its 1,800MW North Anna Power Station in the US state of Virginia, after securing permission from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The station was shut down automatically when a...

EDF Energy to award contracts for UK nuke projects

EDF Energy plans to award a package of new contracts worth £200m to various companies for the supply of equipment for its planned nuclear projects in the UK.The company will contract the jobs at its third national supply chain...

Areva secures EUR600m nuclear plant upgrade contract from EDF

Areva has secured a contract worth more than EUR600m from French utility EDF to upgrade nuclear power plant monitoring and control systems. The work will be carried out on 20 reactors each with a capacity of...

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