"I&C" in Nuclear News

• Duke upgrades to digital I&C at Oconee
• The role of I&C technology in enabling the deployment of small modular reactors, by Dwight Clayton and Richard Wood
• Digital I&C for research reactors

Other news in the December issue: Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff sends AP1000 final rule package to the commissioners and the Office of Management and Budget; U.S. EPR's digital I&C system gets first NRC approval; US-APWR design certification now scheduled for October 2014; NRC reschedules work on Turkey Point-6 and -7 into 2014; Entergy submits Grand Gulf license renewal application to the NRC; Comments on Fermi-3 draft EIS accepted through January 11.; Robinson-2 moves higher, Sequoyah-1 lower in NRC's ROP action matrix; stolen sodium diuranate traced to Areva's Trekkopje mine in Namibia; regulatory control of USEC's Portsmouth plant being returned to the Department of Energy; NRC issues final environmental assessment for Nuclear Fuel Services' fuel fabrication facility; NRC investigates yellowcake incident at Wyoming site; ORISE report shows shifts in career opportunities for nuclear engineering grads; University of Pittsburgh hosts Nuclear Night; Czech utility ?EZ invites vendor bids for new Temelin reactors; Taiwan's new energy policy calls for nuclear power phaseout; commercial start of Finland's Olkiluoto-3 may be delayed again; UAE's Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation requests approval for site preparation work at Braka; dome of China's first EPR, Taishan-1, is put in place; Russia applies for membership in OECD Nuclear Energy Agency; IAEA mission team issues preliminary report on Fukushima Daiichi; and much more.

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