In what some see as a pivotal milestone toward consummating the all-stock $15 billion merger of Dominion Energy and troubled SCANA Corp., federal nuclear regulators have approved the transfer of operating licenses for a failed $9 billion South Carolina reactor construction project abandoned by SCANA last year. Power-eng.com On August 30, the Armée de l’Air (AA, French air force) brought the 30-year military flying career of the Dassault Mirage 2000N (N = nucléaire) to a close. Three aircraft that had served with Escadron de Chasse 2/4 “La Fayette” flew out of BA (Base Aérienne) 125 Istres for the last time and into storage. EC 2/4 had formally retired the Mirage 2000N from the front line on June 21, and has since moved to BA113 Saint-Dizier to operate the Dassault Rafale B. Among its duties is the nuclear strike role for which the Mirage 2000N was originally developed. Ainonline.com Industry minister Hiroshige Seko has denied a news report that 10 nuclear power plant operators halted funding for the reprocessing of nuclear fuel in fiscal 2016, saying that there is no change in Japan’s nuclear fuel recycling policy and that the utilities are now paying reserve funds to a state-linked organization. Japantimes.co.jp The death from lung cancer of a male worker at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima has been confirmed as work-related, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced on Sept. 4. Mainichi.jp
