NRC finds 2 problems with emergency shutdown of NJ plant following July lightning strikeSeptember 30th, 2009 NRC finds problems in NJ nuke plant emergencyLACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Federal regulators say the emergency shutdown of the nation's oldest nuclear power plant in July exposed two low-level problems.
Russia to seek stake in Bulgarian nuclear power plantSeptember 28th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia will seek a stake in the Belene nuclear power plant being built by a Russian company in northern Bulgaria, Russia's nuclear chief said Monday. "If Bulgaria announces a tender for its stake in the Belene NPP, we'll participate in it," Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russia's state-run civilian nuclear power corporation Rosatom, said in an interview with Bulgarian newspaper Standart.
NALCO mulling setting up of nuclear power plantSeptember 13th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The state-owned National Aluminium Company (NALCO) is in talks with another public sector undertaking to set up a nuclear power plant in the country, an official said Sunday. The aluminium major is in talks with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) to set up the plant for which the exact location is yet not finalised.
L&T wins order for Nuclear Power ProjectsSeptember 10th, 2009 Mumbai, Sept 10 (IBNS) Larsen & Toubro, India’s largest manufacturer
of equipment for the nuclear power sector, has won a repeat order fo
rdesign, manufacture and supply of four steam generators for 700
MWePressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR) for Rajasthan Atomic Power
Plant(RAPP) – 7&8 from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited
(NPCIL). These will be the largest steam generators built in India so far, a
company release said Thursday.
Federal regulators seek better ways to spot leaks in buried pipes at all US nuclear plantsSeptember 8th, 2009 NRC seeks better leak detection at US nuke plantsATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Federal regulators say they're looking for better ways to detect leaks from buried pipes at nuclear power plants.
NRC finds no spread of contamination from 1st of 2 leaks at Oyster Creek nuclear plant in NJSeptember 8th, 2009 NRC: No threat from leak at NJ nuclear power plantATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Federal regulators say the first of two leaks of radioactive tritium this year at the nation's oldest nuclear power plant did not spread contamination beyond the plant's grounds.
Rajasthan atomic power station's second unit resumes operationsSeptember 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - The 200-MW unit 2 of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS), shut down since July 2007, resumed operations Tuesday after feeder replacements and obtaining required fuel, officials said. The first pressurised heavy water reactor in India, it will operate at full power on imported natural uranium, a spokesperson for Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) told IANS here.
Workers remove leaking pipe at oldest US nuclear plant, say no danger to publicAugust 28th, 2009 Leaking pipe removed at oldest US nuclear plantLACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Workers have safely removed a leaking pipe at the nation's oldest nuclear power plant, the Oyster Creek Generating Station in New Jersey.
Terex to cut 170 positions at Iowa plant as it consolidates manufacturing amid recessionAugust 7th, 2009 Terex to cut 170 positions at Iowa plantWESTPORT, Conn. — Heavy equipment maker Terex Corp.
Caterpillar to close plant in South Africa, 193 jobs affectedJuly 31st, 2009 Caterpillar to close South African plantPEORIA, Ill. — Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc.
Chrysler to resume operations, recall workers at northern Illinois plantJuly 7th, 2009 Chrysler to resume operations at Ill. plantBELVIDERE, Ill.
Utility officials in Illinois say no public threat in tritium leak at nuclear power plantJune 8th, 2009 No public threat in tritium leak at Ill. plantMORRIS, Ill.
Czech CEZ, Slovak JAVYS sign deal to build new nuclear power station in SlovakiaMay 29th, 2009 Slovakia to build new nuclear power plantPRAGUE — Two state-run companies from the Czech Republic and Slovakia signed a deal Friday to create a joint company that will build a new nuclear power station in Slovakia. The Czech Republic's main power utility CEZ AS and Slovak energy company JAVYS AS will build the power station near the existing Soviet-era nuclear plant in Jaslovske Bohunice in western Slovakia.
Oldest US nuke plant's reactor shut down when equipment fails, operator says no radiation leakApril 26th, 2009 Reactor at oldest US nuclear plant is shut downLACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — The operator of the nation's oldest nuclear power plant has manually shut down its reactor after equipment failed on one of its two transformers.
Birla Tyres to shut down Orissa unit once againJanuary 15th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Birla Tyres, a unit of the BK Birla group company Kesoram Industries, will shut down its Orissa plant once again on account of falling sales, a company official said Friday. 'We will shut down the plant from January 19 to January 31 because of falling demand,' a senior official at the unit told IANS on condition of anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the media.
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