Westinghouse forms Canadian headquarters
Westinghouse Electric Co. is creating a company to serve its customers to the north. Westinghouse Electric Canada will be headquartered in Toronto and formed to work with its customer and 150 Canadian suppliers, the Cranberry Township-based company said Thursday. "With the creation of Westinghouse Canada, we will better provide our worldwide capabilities and experience in a fashion that will meet significant needs and aspirations of Canada's viable nuclear energy industry," said Jim Ferland, president, Americas, in a prepared statement. Source: Energy Inc.
Virtual reality for UK research centre
Two virtual reality (VR) systems have been installed at the UK's new Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (NAMRC) in Sheffield to help in the design and manufacture of large components for nuclear power plants. The two systems have been designed and installed by Virtalis. The first is called ActiveCube and is described as a "multi-sided VR system that delivers an intuitive, human-scale immersive virtual experience for two to four people." Virtalis said that the NAMRC's ActiveCube "has the appearance of a floating 3.2-meter glass box ... with 3D virtual environments rear-projected." Movements within the ActiveCube are followed using a tracking system, ...
Trade figures reveal cost of Japan’s nuclear shutdown
Huge energy imports last year caused Japan to record a rare trade deficit. Manufacturing was hit by the tsunami, but the use of fossil fuels to replace shut-down nuclear plants was a bigger factor. Prior to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami and subsequent major accident at Fukushima Daiichi, nuclear power had provided about 30% of Japan's electricity. But with nuclear reactors shutting down one by one over nine months of 2011, the current situation sees only 4 of 50 reactors in operation as government and regulators struggle to reassure the public that operation can safely recommence. Japan has had to severely ...
French nuclear giant Areva’s revenue falls 2.6 pct
Paris (AP) — France's state-controlled nuclear giant Areva said Thursday that its consolidated revenue fell 2.6 percent in a bruising year that saw the company struggle with a management shake-up, a troubled uranium mining venture and a global rethinking of nuclear in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster. The company's new chief executive, Luc Oursel, unveiled a turnround plan at the end of last year that included the suspension of some projects, a partial hiring freeze in France and massive layoffs in Germany, which has decided to shut down all of its nuclear plants by 2022. But even with those measures, ...
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Mouser Electronics joins Penton Media to raise awareness of counterfeit parts
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced its...
U.S. seizes websites accused of selling fake goods
Washington – Some 150 websites allegedly selling counterfeit goods including shoes, purses, sunglasses and sports jerseys have been seized, U.S. authorities said Monday, coinciding...
China awakening patent power
Companies will have to worry more about losing infringement cases in China Those who deride China for failing to take patent protection seriously might just be provoking a sleeping...
Fake iPads flood online stores before Christmas
Fake iPads are flooding the market in the run-up to Christmas, brand protection firm MarkMonitor has said in a warning issued to consumers. The organization found over 18,000 iPad...
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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy continues preparations for Finland ESBWR bid
Helsinki–GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) continues to expand its presence in the Finland. Today the company announced it has signed a new project development memorandum of understanding...
CEZ may seek partner for $10 billion Temelin reactor project
Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — CEZ AS, the largest power producer in central and eastern Europe, will consider bringing in an investment partner to help finance a $10 billion project to...
Mexico activists slam planned mine near nuclear plant
Mexican environmental activists on Wednesday slammed the alleged threat from a Canadian gold mining project that would lie only two miles (three kilometers) from a nuclear power plant. “We’re...
TVEL plans to grow and diversify
A new corporate strategy for Russian nuclear fuel manufacturer TVEL aims to more than double nuclear revenue by 2030, while adding a new energy storage business. Russia’s...
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Entergy enlists Areva DZ for upgrades
US utility Entergy has signed agreements with Areva DZ for future upgrades at all nine of its nuclear power plant sites. Under five-year agreements, Areva DZ will provide full-scope engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for capital projects to upgrade Entergy’s nuclear plant sites. Entergy owns eleven nuclear...
Gentilly licence renewal pending refurb
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has granted a five-year renewal for the operating licence for the Gentilly 2 nuclear power station in Quebec which will also provide for the refurbishment of the plant during the period to 2016. The new licence, which will be merged with the plant’s waste management facility licence, will be valid...
Upgrade completed at Olkiluoto 2
Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) announced that it has completed a major refurbishment at unit 2 of the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant, which has raised the reactor’s output by some 20 MWe. The uprate – which brings the boiling water reactor’s capacity to some 880 MWe – was conducted during the unit’s annual...
N.B. politicians united in call for Ottawa to pay extra costs of reactor refit
Fredericton — Members of the New Brunswick legislature have unanimously voted in favour of an Opposition motion to press the federal government to pay for the cost overruns at the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant. The refurbishment project of Atlantic Canada’s only nuclear power plant is three years behind schedule and $1 billion over ...
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