| ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT: |
| Nuclear powers to top of the table |
| 6 July 2010 |
| Power companies using a lot of nuclear energy have been shown as among America's cleanest by the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) in recently published data. |
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| NEW NUCLEAR: |
| New Brunswick deals with Areva |
| 9 July 2010 |
| The Canadian province of New Brunswick could host a 'clean energy park' fitted with Areva's nuclear and renewable power generating equipment. |
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| WASTE & RECYCLING: |
| Pack it in with software |
| 8 July 2010 |
| UK engineering software company Structure Vision has released software to give real-time information on waste cutting and packing choices. |
| NDA reveals steps leading underground |
| 7 July 2010 |
| Britain's process for radioactive waste disposal has been sketched out by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in a timeline stretching some 130 years. |
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| NUCLEAR POLICIES: |
| Cooperation agreements for Kazakhstan, Russia and more |
| 7 July 2010 |
| A host of nuclear energy bilaterals and agreements have been announced in recent days including documents signed during a visit by President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia to Kazakhstan. Other countries including France, Morocco, Mexico, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and the USA have been working on working together. |
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| REGULATION & SAFETY: |
| Security checks OK in 2009 |
| 9 July 2010 |
| American nuclear safety regulators have summarized their security inspections of US nuclear power plants. They carried out some 24 force-on-force tests of security personnel last year. |
| Canadian isotope reactor restart approved |
| 8 July 2010 |
| Canada's nuclear regulator has approved the return to service of one of the world's major radioisotope producing reactors, the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor at Chalk River, after extensive repairs. |
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| CORPORATE: |
| Trio team up for Saudi nuclear projects |
| 12 July 2010 |
| The Shaw Group, Exelon and Toshiba plan to team up to pursue contracts for "a full complement of services to design, engineer, construct and operate" nuclear power projects in Saudi Arabia. |
| Itochu increases interest in Rossing South |
| 12 July 2010 |
| Japanese trading house Itochu is set to become one of the largest shareholders of Extract Resources, owner of the Rossing South uranium project in Namibia, after agreeing to acquire a 10.3% stake in the company. |
| McDermott to spin off B&W |
| 7 July 2010 |
| The board of directors of US engineering and construction company McDermott International has approved the spin-off of its wholly-owned power and nuclear engineering subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox (B&W). |
| Japanese companies join forces for international market |
| 6 July 2010 |
| Six Japanese companies have announced an office in preparation for a new company to support Japanese involvement in new nuclear projects around the world. Meanwhile, Japan is helping Vietnam with its nuclear development. |
| Hong Kong utility buys into Yangjiang plant |
| 6 July 2010 |
| Hong Kong-based power utility China Light and Power (CLP) is to take a 17% stake in the six-unit Yangjiang nuclear power plant under construction in China's neighbouring Guangdong province - the equivalent of one reactor. |
| Simulator joint venture for Chinese market |
| 6 July 2010 |
| A joint venture simulator company has been formed by GSE Systems and Beijing-based Unis with a focus on the burgeoning market for domestic Chinese reactors, 32 of which are under construction or firmly planned. |
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| EXPLORATION & NUCLEAR FUEL: |
| Alliance takes Four Mile partner to court |
| 12 July 2010 |
| Australia's Alliance Resources has taken Quasar Resources and Heathgate Resources to court over their failure to disclose information related to the exploration of the Four Mile uranium project in South Australia. |
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| INDUSTRY TALK: |
| Licences granted for UAE site work |
| 12 July 2010 |
| The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) has granted two licences to the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) for work related to the country's first nuclear power plant. |
| Worley Parsons appoints for global nuclear |
| 9 July 2010 |
| Djurica Tankosic has been appointed as president of global nuclear development for engineering and consultancy firm Worley Parsons. The company said Tankosic would be responsible for management, organization and development of nuclear business across all of Worley Parsons' activities from a base in London. |
| Bridging and tunnelling to new AP1000s |
| 8 July 2010 |
| China National Nuclear Company has celebrated the completion of the access road to the Taohuajiang nuclear power plant of inland Hunan province. It stretches only 7.5 kilometres but includes a 109-metre bridge, two 24-metre bridges, some 32 culverts totalling 1.2 kilometres and as well as an 855-metre section of tunnel. Taohuajiang is to be China's first inland nuclear power plant and will feature four Westinghouse AP1000s cooled by natural draft towers. |
| OKG postpones Oskarshamn 2 uprate |
| 6 July 2010 |
| Swedish utility OKG announced that it has postponed the final phase of the modernisation of unit 2 of the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant. The company said that the modernisation work, which will increase the unit's net generating capacity by almost 38% from 610 MWe to 840 MWe, has proved to be more extensive and complex than expected. |
