Nuclear News Roundup Jan 13, 2016 Waste emplacement has resumed at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), nearly three years after activities were halted following a waste drum rupture in an underground storage panel at the New Mexico facility. world-nuclear-news.org The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has unveiled plans to increase the contribution of "clean energy" in its total energy mix to 50% by 2050. The UAE's new energy strategy sees half of the country's energy coming from renewables and nuclear, with the remaining half coming from fossil fuels. world-nuclear-news.org The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week that it had accepted for review the Early Site Permit application for the Clinch River site near Oak Ridge, Tenn., which is earmarked as the site for two or more small modular reactors. nuclearstreet.com Bouygues Construction announced this week that a subsidiary, Bouygues Travaux Publics, a consortium with the British construction firm Laing O'Rourke, had signed contracts with French utility EDF for the construction of the Hinkley Point C nuclear reactors in the United Kingdom. The contract's value for the company comes to at least $1.81 billion, Bouygues said. nuclearstreet.com
