Finnish utility TVO says that it is �preparing for the possibility� that the Olkiluoto 3 EPR will not be ready for regular electricity production until 2016; more than a decade after construction began.

Credit: Credit: TVO/Hannu Huovila

OL3 construction in December 2012

The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has confirmed that four organisations are set to embark on the next phase of the �7 billion ($12bn) competition to run 12 historic UK nuclear sites.

TEPCO has published a plan to implement corporate reforms, which also includes plans and schedules for research and development facilities to support decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi.

TEPCO Fukushima-Daiichi decommissioning R&D; centre roadmap

A system that cleans fuel with the same operating principle as jewellery cleaners has been used for a sampling analysis of crud at Ringhals 4. By Will Dalrymple

Maybe it is just the time of year (I write this in mid-December) but I have been thinking a lot about procurement. The South Korean nuclear regulator has shut down Yonggwang 5&6 nuclear power plant because of the discovery of forged quality certificates for some 5000 components such as fuses and switches. That may be a drop in the ocean for an NPP, but it is still a lot of components; how could it happen?

Why are North American plants dying? By Caroline Peachey