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GE Hitachi announces large hiring plan to support worldwide deployment of reactor technology
Nov 11, 2022 (SPX)
GEH President and CEO Jay Wileman announced plans to grow the GEH workforce by approximately 500 jobs over five years. These new employees will support the futu...
Talks on Ukraine nuclear plant exclusion zone 'very complex': IAEA
Nov 10, 2022 (AFP)
The plant -- Europe's largest, located in Ukraine, but in territory Russia claims to have annexed -- is near the scene of constant shelling and only has enough ...
Romania secures $3 bn US funding for nuclear power
Nov 09, 2022 (AFP)
The funding will be granted by the Washington-based Export-Import Bank (EXIM), an export credit agency, enabling Romania to cover "about a third of the amount n...
French nuclear plant reports ruptured pipe during safety test
Nov 08, 2022 (AFP)
The incident at the Civaux plant, which is offline for maintenance and tests, risks delaying its return to service at a time that France is worried about its ab...
France's EDF cuts electricity output again on nuclear woes
Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)
Production is now seen at 275 to 285 terawatt hours (Twh), down from 280 to 300 Twh -- already a cut from initial estimates for 2022, the company said late Thur...
EDF says to buy GE's nuclear power turbine unit
Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)
The deal concerns the manufacturing of steam turbines and other equipment for the non-nuclear part of the power plants, plus maintenance and upgrade activities ...
Poland says first nuclear power station to cost $20 bn
Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)
The decision to choose Westinghouse over France's EDF and South Korea's KHNP was formally adopted at a cabinet meeting in Warsaw on Wednesday. "We have opted fo...
Poland, South Korea sign letter of intent on nuclear plant
Oct 31, 2022 (AFP)
The announcement comes three days after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said US firm Westinghouse had been selected to build the nation's first nuclear...
Poland picks Westinghouse to build nuclear power station: PM
Oct 28, 2022 (AFP)
Westinghouse beat rival bids from France's EDF and South Korea's KHNP for the multi-billion dollar (euro) deal, although Poland has held out the possibility of ...
French unions agree to lift strike at nuclear plants
Oct 21, 2022 (AFP)
The strike, launched on September 13, threatened to delay efforts to bring over half of France's nuclear reactors back online, just as the country is facing pot...
'About 50' Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant staff in Russian detention
Oct 19, 2022 (AFP)
"More than 150 people from the staff of the plant were captured" since the start of the Russian invasion in late February, Petro Kotin told AFP, adding that "so...
Damage found at Finland nuclear plant, threatening delays
Oct 18, 2022 (AFP)
"Damage has been detected in the internals of the feedwater pumps located in Olkiluoto 3's turbine island during maintenance and inspection work," TVO said in a...
Ukraine says Russia 'kidnapped' two nuclear plant workers
Oct 18, 2022 (AFP)
In a statement on social media, Energoatom said Russian forces on Monday "kidnapped" the head of information technology Oleg Kostyukov and the plant's assistant...
Scholz extends life of Germany's remaining nuclear plants
Oct 17, 2022 (AFP)
Germany had initially planned to exit nuclear power by the end of the year, but Russia's war in Ukraine and skyrocketing power prices since then have forced a r...
Finnish Fortum mulls small nuclear reactors
Oct 17, 2022 (AFP)
"The assessment focuses on the Finnish and Swedish markets," the company said in a statement. The two-year assessment will "identify the commercial, technologic...
France's EDF delays bringing nuclear reactors back on stream
Oct 15, 2022 (AFP)
France generates some 70 percent of its electricity from 56 nuclear reactors but 30 are currently offline, either for routine maintenance or because of corrosio...
Finland hopes new nuclear reactor eases energy crunch
Oct 13, 2022 (AFP)
The Nordic country is hoping the plant will be able to ease the coming winter's challenges as Europe battles soaring energy prices following Russia's invasion o...
Thunberg says 'mistake' for Germany to use coal over nuclear
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
Germany has been forced to restart mothballed coal plants after Russia curtailed its energy supplies to the country in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine. Its ...
Putin tells IAEA's Grossi Moscow is 'open to dialogue' on Ukraine nuclear plant
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
In televised comments with Grossi ahead of their meeting in Saint Petersburg, Putin told the IAEA chief he was "ready to discuss all issues of mutual interest o...
Ukraine nuclear site, Europe's biggest, reconnected to grid
Oct 09, 2022 (AFP)
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Saturday that the plant -- Europe's largest nuclear power station -- had lost its last source of external ...
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