Nuclear News Roundup Mar 30, 2017 Struggling French nuclear power giant AREVA announced the sale of its majority stake in AREVA TA, a subsidiary specializing in nuclear propulsion and research reactors that employs nearly 1,500 people. nuclearstreet.com A day after filing for bankruptcy, Westinghouse Electric Company announced that its AP1000 nuclear power plant design has been approved by regulators in the United Kingdom, where three of the AP1000 models are slated for the Moorside nuclear plant project. nuclearstreet.com Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state have finished demolishing the site of a famous nuclear accident during the Cold War that exposed a man to the highest dose of radiation from the plutonium byproduct americium ever recorded, the U.S. Department of Energy announced Thursday. usnews.com Areva's nuclear foundry, under investigation for forging documents, should be able to restart by this summer and will be upgraded to make the largest nuclear components, a top company executive said on Thursday. nasdaq.com
