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Rachel Morison 4 juin 2018 21:08 UTC+2 Updated on 5 juin 2018 06:00 UTC+2 Government talks with Hitachi, Japan on funding Wylfa project U.K. wants to reduce taxpayer costs below what it paid EDF The U.K. is considering whether to take an equity stake in a 20 (…)

· June 6, 2018 SAO PAULO, June 5 (Reuters) - Brazil’s state power company Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA and French peer Electricite de France SA (EDF) signed a three-year memorandum of understanding to look into cooperation on nuclear energy, the Brazilian company known as (…)

Opinion Nuclear energy Nick Butler 4/06/2018 Last Monday, the board of Hitachi met in Tokyo to consider the future of their proposed new nuclear power plant at Wylfa in north Wales. The Japanese company decided neither to approve nor to drop the plan but to continue the (…)

1 Jun 2018 : Japan’s Toshiba Corporation is to withdraw from the project to build two of its advanced boiling water reactors (ABWRs) at the existing South Texas Project nuclear site in the US. Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corporation, the Japanese company’s wholly owned US subsidiary, (…)

May 31, 2018 at 14:25 JST Japan's hopes of keeping its nuclear fuel recycling program alive faces another major obstacle with signs from France that a reactor project there will be scaled back because of swelling construction costs. After the nuclear fuel recycling program suffered (…)

31 May (NucNet) : Commercial operation of the Flamanville-3 EPR unit under construction in northern France could be further delayed because of the need for safety checks after flaws were discovered in the weldings of the reactor’s secondary circuit, reports in French media have said. The (…)

Nuclear power industry aims to address staff shortage Wil Crisp The nuclear industry has signalled low confidence in the UK’s regulator as it embarks on one of the world’s most ambitious new-build programmes amid a shortage of skilled workers. Only 28pc of industry stakeholders (…)

Hitachi Agrees To Continue Negotiations With UK Over New Nuclear At Wylfa 29 May (NucNet) : Hitachi has agreed to continue negotiations with the UK on a planned 20bn nuclear power station in Wales after the government in London expanded financial support to ease the Japanese group’s (…)

Framatome to supply EDF with reprocessed uranium fuel Framatome has signed a contract to design, fabricate and supply fuel assemblies using enriched reprocessed uranium to French utility EDF between 2023 and 2032. Framatome noted the project is subject to administrative and regulatory (…)

Three Mile Island once again fails to sell energy in annual auction ; closure of nuclear plant looms Exelon Corp. announced today that its Three Mile Island nuclear facility once again “did not clear” in a key annual energy auction, meaning regional grid operator PJM did not purchase power (…)