Nuclear News Roundup Mar 13, 2017 One of Europe’s longest-running and most bitter corporate disputes looked to have come to an end as Areva and Siemens settled over a Finnish nuclear power plant that is more than a decade late. Ft.com SCANA Corp. knew its contractors were mismanaging millions of dollars in construction material soon after work at South Carolina's V.C. Summer Nuclear Station began in 2013, and the large Cayce company was unable to stop the waste before the $9 billion project was abandoned last year. Postandcourier.com Russia has today connected unit 1 of the Leningrad Phase II nuclear power plant to the grid and it has started producing its first power, state nuclear corporation Rosatom has announced. The VVER 1200 reactor was brought to the minimum controllable power level on 6 February. World-nuclear-news.org An Industrial Way Forward Agreement signed on 10 March by the CEOs of EDF and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) sets out the industrial framework and planned timetable for the implementation of six EPR reactors at Jaitapur, as well as the roles and responsibilities of the partners. World-nuclear-news.org
