Exelon Generation announced today that it has decided to retire its Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey this October. The company had agreed with the state to shut the single-reactor plant by the end of 2019. World-nuclear-news.org

Scuba divers have started working in the former fuel storage pond of the Sizewell A Magnox nuclear power plant in the UK. They will use lessons learned from underwater work previously carried out to remove radioactive waste from the ponds at the Dungeness A plant. World-nuclear-news.org

Three Westinghouse-designed AP1000 reactors are on track for completion and initial operations in 2018 with the announcement this week that Unit 2 at the Sanmen nuclear power plant had completed its hot testing, a preliminary step towards loading fuel into the reactor. Nuclearstreet.com

Canada-based BWX Technologies, Inc., said Friday that its subsidiary BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada Inc. (BWXT NEC) has been awarded a CA$18.6 million, four-year contract to manufacture zircaloy-4 seamless tubes for Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica SA (SNN), which operates the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant in Romania. Nuclearstreet.com