Russia and India's project to build units 5 and 6 at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant has entered the "practical implementation phase", ASE Group, the engineering division of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, said yesterday. ASE Group includes Atomproekt, Atomstroyexport and ASE Joint Stock Engineering Company (formerly Atomenergoproekt). World-nuclear-news.org Analyses by Japanese laboratories of seawater, marine sediment and fish samples taken from near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant produce reliable data, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The agency compared the results obtained from seven Japanese labs with those from three labs outside Japan. World-nuclear-news.org Virginia-based BWX Technologies announced Thursday that its subsidiary BWXT Nuclear Energy Inc. had been awarded an $18.8 million contract from NASA to initiate conceptual designs for a nuclear thermal propulsion reactor. The aim of the project, the company said, was to support “a possible future manned mission to Mars.” Nuclearstreet.com SCE&G and Santee Cooper announced Monday they were abandoning a project to build two new nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer in Fairfield County. The decision leaves 5,600 people without a job .Whole neighborhoods in and around V.C. Summer Nuclear Power Plant are being affected by the layoffs. WLTX.com
