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Nuclear Power: Bruce A Will Close Four Units For May Outage
Bruce Power’s Bruce A generating station will see all four operating units (Units 1-4) removed from service for its planned Vacuum Building Outage (VBO), beginning May 9.
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Nuclear Power: Tractebel Engineering Joins NUWARD Project
Tractebel has just signed a contract with Centre national d'équipement de production d'électricité (CNEPE), Électricité de France (EDF)’s engineering centre located in Tours, France, to contribute to the development of the NUWARD small modular reactor (SMR) project.( read more) 
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Nuclear Power: Framatome Lands Cavitation Preening Contract
French nuclear services group Framatome said Thursday that it had been awarded a contract to perform a specialized reactor vessel mitigation technique on four United States nuclear power plants.( read more) 
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Nuclear Power: Westinghouse Sweden To Fuel Forsmark and Rhinhals
Westinghouse Electric Sweden announced Thursday that it had reached an agreement with Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel AB to ensure long-term fuel supply to the majority of the nuclear reactors in Sweden which are operated by Vattenfall.( read more) 
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Nuclear Power: Fennovoima Cancels Hanhikivi 1 Contracts
Finland’s nuclear power company Fennovoima said this week it had terminated contracts with Rosatom for engineering, procurement and licensing activities for the Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant project, citing increased risk of delays due to the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.( read more) 
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Nuclear Power: TVO Announces New OL3 Delay
Finish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj has said the start of “regular electricity production” at Unit 3 of the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant had been postponed for some time in September this year, a push back from the previously expected transition date of late July.( read more) 
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Nuclear Power: Drainage System Milestone Reached At Akkuyu Site
As part of the work on establishing a unified water discharge system at the construction site of Akkuyu NPP Unit 1, construction workers connected the discharge channel and the siphon well at the Russian-Turkish project, the project company Akkuyu Nuclear said Wednesday.( read more) 
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Nuclear Power: Hongyanhe Unit 6 Reaches First Criticality
China General Nuclear said the first criticality – a sustained nuclear reaction – had been achieved on April 21 at the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant’s Unit 6, the second of two ACPR-1000 reactors built at the plant.
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Nuclear Power: Unexpected Pump Startup At Olkiluoto Unit 3
Finish utility Teollisuuden Voima Ovj (TVO) said Tuesday that the Olkiluoto NPP’s nascent Unit 3 was shut down as part of a test program, but that the boron pumps, part of the plant’s safety system, unexpectedly started.( read more) 
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Nuclear Power: Westinghouse To Purchase BHI Energy
Private equity firm AE Industrial Partners, a U.S.-based private equity firm specializing in aerospace, defense & government services, space, power & utility services, and specialty industrial markets, announced it had agreed to sell BHI Energy to U.S. nuclear service giant Westinghouse Electric Company. read more
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