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• Rolls-Royce steams into nuclear market

  Rolls-Royce plans to become a major player in a future global nuclear industry worth $100 billion, using what it claims is the UK's most substantial nuclear supply chain. Posted Jul 17 2008, 10:38 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: NEW NUCLEAR, Rolls-Royce

• Darlington site selected to host two new reactors

  The Darlington nuclear power plant in Ontario, Canada, has been selected as the site for a new plant, the provincial government announced. In addition, three reactor vendors have been invited to continue participating in the procurement process. Posted Jun 16 2008, 11:46 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: NEW NUCLEAR, Darlington

• Application for new Swiss nuclear plant

  Swiss energy company Atel has submitted an application for framework approval of a new nuclear power plant to Switzerland's Federal Office of Energy. It could result in a new reactor with a virtually vapour-free cooling tower. Posted Jun 10 2008, 12:13 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: NEW NUCLEAR, Switzerland

• Fennovoima rules out Kristinestad as plant site

  Fennovoima announced that it has completed technical preplanning at four potential locations in Finland for a new nuclear power plant and has decided to proceed to technical planning at three of them. In December 2007, the company said that it had narrowed its search down from a possible six municipalities to four. Fen Posted Jun 06 2008, 07:47 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: NEW NUCLEAR, Fennovoima

• US suspends financial participation in Iter

  The USA has admitted that it will have to suspend financial participation in the Iter experimental fusion reactor project due to cuts in the federal research budget. Posted Jan 18 2008, 09:59 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: NEW NUCLEAR

• Belene contract 'opens new prospects' for Russia in Europe

  The signing of a Eur4 billion contract for two new nuclear power reactors was welcomed by vendor AtomStroyExport, (ASE) which said the construction of the plant would help its chances to win further contracts in Europe. Posted Jan 18 2008, 09:24 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: NEW NUCLEAR, AtomStroyExport

• Texas establishes Nuclear Power Institute

  A Nuclear Power Institute (NPI) is to be established at Texas A&M University to ensure the state has sufficient qualified workers for its growing nuclear power industry. Posted Dec 17 2007, 11:06 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: NEW NUCLEAR

• State approvals sought for new US nuclear

  Unistar Nuclear Energy (UNE) has applied to the American state of Maryland for approval for a third nuclear power reactor at its Calvert Cliffs site. Separately, a Progress Energy executive has said it would likely go ahead with new build following similar approval in Florida. Posted Nov 16 2007, 10:28 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: NEW NUCLEAR

• Exelon chooses ESBWR for Texas

  Exelon has selected GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy's ESBWR for potential build in Texas. The ESBWR has recently been awarded 'ecomagination' certification by GE. Posted Nov 13 2007, 10:19 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: NEW NUCLEAR

• Construction of Russia's Kalinin 4 resumes

  A ceremony took place at unit 4 of the Kalinin nuclear power plant on 12 November to mark the resumption of the Russian reactor's construction. During the ceremony, the first concrete was poured for the reactor building foundation slab. Posted Nov 13 2007, 08:41 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: NEW NUCLEAR

• Russia and China deal on uranium, enrichment and power

  A top-level meeting of Russian and Chinese executives and officials has seen Russia agree to supply uranium, enrichment capacity and two new power reactors to China. Tenex are to aid the construction of enrichment cascades and supply low-enriched uranium for 11 years from 2010. Posted Nov 09 2007, 10:01 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: NEW NUCLEAR