One man was killed and eight were injured in a crane failure at the Arkansas Nuclear One power plant on 31 March. An unexplained failure caused a heavy lift gantry to collapse in the process of moving a 500-tonne component inside the turbine building.
An order by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has reinforced a voluntary commitment by Honeywell to keep the Metropolis uranium conversion plant offline until post-Fukushima safety improvements are complete.
Danny Roderick has taken over as president and CEO of Westinghouse, moving straight from the position of senior vice president for nuclear plant projects at rival vendor GE-Hitachi.
Agneta Rising will take over as director general of the World Nuclear Association (WNA) from 1 January 2013, upon the retirement of current head John Ritch.
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After much speculation, MIT's Ernest Moniz has been announced as President Barack Obama's choice for energy secretary. He awaits confirmation by the US Senate._64x48.jpg "Cattenom (EDF) 64x48")
Two contract workers have died and a third seriously injured in an accident during maintenance work in a reactor building at EDF's Cattenom nuclear power plant in north-eastern France. 48.jpg "AP1000 control room simulator (Westinghouse) 48")
New control room simulators will be used in the training of operators for the AP1000 units currently under construction at Sanmen and Haiyang in China. The first batch of operators is set to qualify by the end of this year.