Nuclear Power Technology, Science And Industry News

March 08, 2016

AREVA Upgrades Reactor Coolant Pumps at Surry Power Station
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 08, 2016
AREVA NP recently completed reactor coolant pump refurbishments at Dominion's Surry Power Station in southeastern Virginia. For this project, the company successfully renovated and qualified four pumps, including two from the closed Kewaunee Power Station in Wisconsin. Teams from AREVA replaced the shafts, impellers, couplings, bearings and the pumps' turning vane bolts. To facilitate the project's timely completion, AREVA NP mobilized its teams in Jeumont, France, and Lynchburg, Va., to des ... read more

Previous Issues

Mar 07

Mar 05

Mar 04

Mar 03

Mar 02

Row over UK nuclear plant alarms EDF investors The resignation of French energy giant EDF's finance chief sent its shares plunging Monday as concerns grew over the risks of its plan to build a next-generation nuclear plant in Britain. ... more		Closure of France's oldest nuclear plant begins this year French Environment Minister Segolene Royal said Monday that work will begin this year to shut down the country's oldest nuclear power plant, at the centre of a row with neighbouring Germany and Switzerland. ... more		Russia, Kazakhstan may sign nuclear cooperation deal in 2016 Russia and Kazakhstan may sign an agreement on scientific cooperation in the field of peaceful nuclear energy this year, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom's company Science and Innovation sa ... more
				Germany demands France shut old nuclear plant near border Germany demanded Friday that France close down its oldest nuclear plant, Fessenheim, near the German and Swiss borders - just one of several ageing atomic plants that are unsettling France's neighbours. ... more		EDF finance chief quits over British nuclear power plant plan The chief financial officer of French energy giant EDF, Thomas Piquemal, has resigned over a disagreement about an ambitious project to build Britain's first new nuclear power plant in decades, a source close to the matter told AFP on Sunday. ... more

Bolivia, Russia ink deal on $300 mn nuclear research lab Bolivia signed a $300 million deal with Russia on Sunday to build a world-class nuclear research lab in the South American nation, President Evo Morales announced. ... more		Fukushima 'dark tourism' aids remembrance and healing Shinichi Niitsuma enthusiastically shows visitors the attractions of the small town of Namie: its tsunami-hit coastline, abandoned houses and hills overlooking the radiation-infested reactors of the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant. ... more		Europe bakes in summer's first heatwave as continent warms WHO says all Covid-19 origin theories still open, after inconclusive study Winds hamper firefighters in Turkey as heat wave scorches Southern Europe		Fincantieri delivers platform for nuclear reactor compartments A semi-submersible floating platform has been delivered by Fincantieri to Russia's RosRAO for the transportation of nuclear submarine reactor compartments. ... more
				Mutations, DNA damage seen in Fukushima forests: Greenpeace Conservation group Greenpeace warned on Friday that the environmental impact of the Fukushima nuclear crisis five years ago on nearby forests is just beginning to be seen and will remain a source of contamination for years to come. ... more		India to allocate $440M annually for nuclear power investments India will increase its investment in nuclear power to up to 30 billion rupees (almost $440 million) per year, the country's finance minister, Arun Jaitley, said on Monday, unveiling a budget for th ... more

Space Tech Expo - Design - Build - Test - Pasadena CA - May 24-26, 2016

Military Network Modernization 2016 - Washington DC - April 25-27

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

Fukushima Disaster Shows Need to Continue Improving NPP Safety Measures The 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan served as a lesson for nuclear power plants in other countries to continue improving safety measures against natural disasters, an Organization for Econo ... more		Research demonstrates that air data can be used to reconstruct radiological releases New research from North Carolina State University demonstrates that experts can use data from air sampling technology to not only detect radiological releases, but to accurately quantify the magnitu ... more		Sceye secures SoftBank backing to launch HAPS connectivity services in Japan Sierra Space opens Power Station solar tech center in Colorado to boost defense production Defense Department to end satellite data programs used for storm forecasts		Former TEPCO bosses indicted over Fukushima disaster Three former executives of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant operator were indicted Monday over the 2011 atomic accident, in what will be the first criminal trial linked to the disaster. ... more
Nuclear Waste Illegally Dumped in Kentucky Landfill Radioactive drilling waste was illegally dumped at a landfill in Kentucky, according to state officials. Now, they're issuing warnings and investigating how the nuclear waste ended up at the dump si ... more		Asteroid scientists explore new ways to save Earth Scientists at Tomsk State University's Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics have calculated how to blow up an asteroid with a diameter of 200 meters using nuclear power, while also making ... more		Japan restarts another reactor, fourth since tsunami disaster shutdown A Japanese utility on Friday said it started up a nuclear reactor, the fourth to come back online following a nationwide shutdown after the March 2011 tsunami disaster. ... more		Screening truffles for radioactivity 30 years from Chernobyl Some forest mushrooms, such as wild porcini, can accumulate dangerous levels of radioactivity from the soils they grow in. But until now it was unclear if the same was true for truffles, fungi that ... more

	Glitch halts Japan reactor days after restart: utility A Japanese utility on Monday said that a surprise glitch has switched off a nuclear reactor just days after it was turned on again after a nationwide shutdown following the 2011 Fukushima crisis. ... more		Mexico issues alert after theft of radioactive material Five Mexican states were put on alert Sunday after a truck carrying a container of potentially dangerous radioactive material was stolen, the interior ministry said. ... more

Fifth year of losses for Areva on Finnish provisions		Nuclear water: Fukushima still faces contamination crisis		Areva secures bridging loan to survive 2016		Lithuania aims synchronization of electricity system with Europe: PM		Study finds surprising variability in shape of Van Allen Belts
Study shows dried plums provide protection from bone loss due to radiation		Remote predictions of fluid flow in fractures possible with new finding		US Westinghouse Fuel Delivered to Biggest Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant		First Unit of Russia-India Kudankulam NPP Reconnected to Grid		New nuclear plants indication of growing trust between Russia and Iran

UK science leads the way in nuclear research

Moscow Ready to Fulfill Loan Obligations on Hungarian Paks NPP -Putin

Radioactive water leak suspends Japan reactor start-up

Video of Belgian nuclear official seized in Paris attacks probe

Germany's RWE suspends dividends

EDF says extending life of 4 UK nuclear power stations

Australian state could take 13% of globe's nuclear waste

Russia, Argentina May Construct Atucha Nuclear Power Plant Unit in 2016

Russian Government Proposes to Increase Security at Nuclear Facilities

Over 70% of Japanese Against Nuclear Power Plants After Fukushima Tragedy

Rapiscan intros MP100 backpack radiation detecter

Fukushima plant boss says another disaster won't threaten clean-up

New York Power Plant Leaking Radioactive Water

China drafts nuclear safety law

Sweden's Vattenfall results nuked by atomic energy tax

India Connects First Unit of Kudankulam NPP to National Electric Grid

Germany reassured "for now" over Belgian nuclear plants

Struggling Areva plans 5 bn euro capital increase

Britain says 'good progress' being made on nuclear plant

Japan turns on third nuclear reactor since post-Fukushima ban

Buy Advertising

Media Advertising Kit

Editorial & Other Enquiries

Privacy statement

The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2016 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement All images and articles appearing on Space Media Network have been edited or digitally altered in some way. Any requests to remove copyright material will be acted upon in a timely and appropriate manner. Any attempt to extort money from Space Media Network will be ignored and reported to Australian Law Enforcement Agencies as a potential case of financial fraud involving the use of a telephonic carriage device or postal service.