Nuclear News Roundup Jun 20 2017 India and Russia hopes to put in place a new contract by the end of this year for supply of nuclear fuel to the non-Russian reactors to boost energy production in South Asia’s biggest country, informed Oleg A Grigoryev, Senior Vice President TVEL, fuel supply wing of Rosatom, Russia’s apex nuclear body. Economictimes.indiatimes.com Unit 1 of the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in Sweden has been permanently shut down. A decision not to restart the unit after an operational issue resulted in it closing ten days ahead of schedule. World-nuclear-news.org A consortium of Turkish companies yesterday signed an agreement with Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom on the main conditions for acquiring a 49% stake in JSC Akkuyu Nuclear, the company that will build and operate Turkey's first nuclear power plant. World-nuclear-news.org The Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection (ORP) and contractor Bechtel National Inc. (BNI) said that employees had “safely completed final assembly of the first melter at Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), also known as the Vit Plant.” Nuclearstreet.com
