Santee Cooper on Monday hammered the final nail into the coffin of the failed, $9 billion V.C. Summer nuclear construction project. The state-owned utility’s board unanimously voted to cooperate with SCE&G’s efforts to give up the project’s hard-won federal license to build two more nuclear reactors at the massive Fairfield County site. The move makes it a virtual impossibility that the project ever could be finished. Thestate.com The IAEA delivered the final report of an expert mission that reviewed Sudan’s infrastructure development for a nuclear power programme. Iqaea.org Belgium's regulatory body, the Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC), has approved the restart of unit 2 of the Doel plant following repairs to a corroded pipeline in a safety cooling water circuit. Repairs to the same pipeline in Doel 1 continue. World-nuclear-news.org TVEL, the fuel manufacturer subsidiary of Russia’s Rosatom, has signed a contract with India’s Department of Atomic Energy for supplies of uranium fuel pellets for the Tarapur boiling water reactors (BWRs). A key component of nuclear fuel, a pellet consists of pressed-powder uranium dioxide that has previously been enriched with the U-235 isotope. Such fuel pellets need to be further loaded into fuel rods. World-nuclear-news.com
