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Plan for AP1000 deployment in Poland gains more focus

May 30, 2023, 12:00PMNuclear News

Seated, from left, are Patrick Fragman, CEOof Westinghouse; Łukasz Młynarkiewicz, acting president of PEJ; and Craig Albert, president and chief operating officer of Bechtel. Standing, from left, are Mark Brzezinski, U.S. ambassador to Poland; Anna Moskwa, Poland’s minister of climate and environment; and Mateusz Berger, Poland’s government plenipotentiary for strategic energy infrastructure. (Photo: Westinghouse)

Westinghouse Electric Company, Bechtel, and Polish utility Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ)—the three firms leading the effort to build Poland’s first nuclear power plant—have announced the signing of a new agreement that defines the main principles of cooperation on the project’s design and construction and confirms the implementation of its next major stage.

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DOE-EM awards $2.3B Portsmouth/Paducah contract

November 14, 2024, 9:30AMRadwaste Solutions

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has awarded a $2.3 billion operations and site mission support services contract for the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office...

Accident tolerant fuel completes first lifecycle at Vogtle

October 25, 2024, 9:30AMNuclear News

Framatome’s enhanced accident tolerant fuel assemblies recently completed a third 18-month fuel cycle at Southern Nuclear’s Vogtle-2 plant—the first of this type of fuel to reach this...

The DOE picks six HALEU deconverters. What have we learned?

October 9, 2024, 3:01PMNuclear News

The Department of Energy announced contracts yesterday for six companies to perform high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) deconversion and to transform enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6) to...

Liftoff report lifts the lid on cost and risk in push to nth-of-a-kind reactors

October 9, 2024, 12:01PMNuclear News

The Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Advanced Nuclear report that was released in March 2023 by the Department of Energy called for five to 10 signed reactor contracts for at least one reactor...

Westinghouse reorganization creates two new business units

October 3, 2024, 3:01PMNuclear News

Westinghouse Electric Company has announced that it will create two new global business units from its Operating Plant Services business. Effective January 1, 2025, the new units will be...

Westinghouse completes front-end design for eVinci microreactor test

September 23, 2024, 9:30AMNuclear News

Westinghouse Electric Company has completed the front-end engineering and experiment design (FEEED) for a prototype microreactor at Idaho National Laboratory, the Department of Energy recently...

Westinghouse, Hyundai to pursue AP1000 opportunities in Nordic countries

September 10, 2024, 12:00PMNuclear News

Westinghouse Electric Company announced today that it has signed a teaming agreement with Hyundai Engineering & Construction Company to pursue opportunities in Sweden and Finland for...

Hanford completes glass transfer test

September 12, 2024, 7:01AMRadwaste Solutions

According to the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, two contractors at its Hanford Site in Washington state have finished a first-time relay of test glass as the site...

Four more Westinghouse AP1000 technology–based reactors approved in China

September 4, 2024, 7:01AMNuclear News

China’s State Council has approved the construction of four new nuclear reactors based on Westinghouse's AP1000 technology at two Chinese power plants. China’s State Power Investment...

Westinghouse AP300 SMR application filed with UK regulator

August 27, 2024, 7:00AMNuclear News

The United Kingdom’s Department of Energy Security and Net Zero has signed off on Westinghouse’s AP300 small modular reactor earlier this month....