EnergoNuclear and AECL signs major contract
SC EnergoNuclear S.A. (EnergoNuclear) and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) today announced the signing of a major contract to assess the technical and commercial viability, and planning of the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Units 3 and 4 investment project in Romania, currently in the pre-project phase. The scope of the contract is for AECL to provide consulting services in the nuclear safety and engineering field in order to define what is required to complete the Cernavoda NPP Units 3 and 4 project. More specifically, AECL will undertake activities such as design, authorization and assessment of the existing infrastructure and ...
Obama promotes nuclear energy to strengthen climate bill
President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation. Obama singled out nuclear power in his State of the Union address, and his spending plan for the next budget year is expected to include billions of more dollars in federal guarantees for new nuclear reactors. This emphasis reflects both the political difficulties of passing a climate bill in an election year and a shift from his once cautious embrace of nuclear energy. He's now calling for a new generation of nuclear power plants. During the campaign, Obama said he ...
Analyzing reactor core behaviour using supercomputers
A new computer algorithm that enables scientists to view nuclear fission in much finer detail has been developed by researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DoE's) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). The code could be used in the development of new reactor designs. An elevation plot of the highest energy neutron flux distributions from an axial slice of a nuclear reactor core is shown superimposed over the same slice of the underlying geometry (Image: ANL) The neutron transport code UNIC is being developed by a team of nuclear engineers and computer scientists at ANL which they said enables researchers to obtain a highly detailed description of a nuclear reactor ...
Versatile Measuring Instruments (VMI) Launches Seismic Qualification Service
Versatile Measuring Instruments Inc. (www.versatilemeasuring.com), a division of Amidyne Group announced the launch of the new seismic service today. The key features of the table are: 3ft x 3ft tri-axial t-slotted shaker with 10,000 lb capacity 10-inch stroke actuators Capacity to operate with ZPA of up to 18 g Frequencies of up to 200Hz Extendable table for larger items VMI provided the Nuclear N-Former with the following video showing the table in action: [qt:http://www.nuclearcounterfeit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/seismic-web-stream.mov 320 240] Most nuclear safety-related components require seismic qualification prior ...
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Standards designed to fight IC counterfeiting
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Refurbished Canadian units gets approval to restart
Two reactors at Canada’s Bruce A nuclear power plant that have been out of service for over a decade have been given regulatory approval for refuelling and restart. At the same time, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has announced five-year operating licence renewals for the Bruce A and B nuclear power stations. Bruce A unit...
North Anna gets approval for uprate
Dominion has been given permission by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to increase the generating capacity of both reactors at its North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia by 1.6%. The power uprate will increase unit 1’s gross generating capacity from about 965 MWe to some 980 MWe, while unit 2’s would increase from 965 MWe to...
AECL issues status report on the Point Lepreau Life Extension Project
Saint John, NB; 2009 September 27 — On Thursday, September 24, New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham, Energy Minister Jack Keir and New Brunswick Power (NB Power) President & CEO David Hay were provided with a status briefing on the Point Lepreau life extension project by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) President & CEO Hugh MacDiarmid.During...
Belgian reactors receives news steam generators
Two new steam generators have been delivered to Electrabel’s Doel nuclear power plant near Antwerp, Belgium. They were made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) at its Kobe shipyard. One of two new steam generators for Doel 1 (Image: MHI) Steam generators are crucial components of plants based on pressurized water reactors (PWRs), transferring...
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