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BWXT Canada awarded steam generator contract for Bruce NPP
BWXT Canada, a subsidiary of BWX Technologies, has been awarded a CDN130m ($100m) steam generator design, manufacturing and delivery contract from Bruce Power for the Bruce-6...
Areva NP uses new maintenance technology
Areva NP has completed the first use of an "innovative new maintenance technique". The company has used cavitation peening on the reactor vessel closure head of unit 2 of Exelon's...
Progress at Russia’s Kursk NPP
Repair and restructuring has been completed on the graphite stack of the RBMK-1000 reactor at unit 1 at Russia’s Kursk NPP, which was reconnected to the grid on 9 April. The unit has...
Russia develops equipment for annealing
Atomenergoremont, a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation owned Rosatom specialising in maintenance work, has completed development of equipment for thermal...
Westinghouse wins contract to service TVA reactors
Westinghouse Electric Company has won a contract to provide steam generator inspection and maintenance services for reactors at two US Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) NPPs - Watts...
More US work for Areva
Areva NP on 3 March signed a contract with Entergy Nuclear to conduct scheduled inspections of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) internals at unit 1 of the Arkansas Nuclear One (ANO)...
SNC-Lavalin to clean SGs at Cernavoda
SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a contract by BWXT Canada Ltd. for the primary side cleaning of the steam generator tubes at Cernavodă 1, a 706MW Candu 6 reactor, in Romania. The work is...
New Westinghouse technology for reactor coolant pump seals
Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation, has announced a new Compound D - Extended Life O-ring for Westinghouse-designed reactor coolant pump seals.
Point Lepreau shuts to repair fuelling machine
Canada's Point Lepreau nuclear plant will be shut down tonight (19 March) so that repairs can be carried out on a fuelling machine.
Frazer-Nash to design new Bradwell duct supports
Engineering consultancy Frazer-Nash has been appointed by Magnox to perform concept and detailed design of new structural steel supports for the reactor gas ducts at Bradwell...
EDF Energy shuts Heysham A1&2 and Hartlepool for pod boiler inspections
A ‘defect’ found in a structural support of a Heysham A1 pod boiler in June has prompted further inspections in three other UK advanced gas cooled reactors with the same design,...
Torness 1 enters maintenance outage
On 7 February Scotland’s Torness 1 advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) was brought offline for a planned maintenance outage to perform maintenance work costing £30 million in total....
Wolf Creek and Callaway schedule water jet peening
Mitsubishi Nuclear Energy Systems, Inc. (MNES) has been awarded contracts at two nuclear power plants to provide its water jet peening (WJP) services.
Alstom to retrofit control systems at 20 French reactors
Iberdrola completes Angra upgrade
NRC investigates Crystal River crack
Atomenergoprom goes competitive
