Rolls-Royce said it delivered the final components of a multimillion dollar package of automated handling, transportation and storage technology to Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL), Canada's leading nuclear science and technology laboratory.

Areva JSPM, a subsidiary of Areva, said it has successfully qualified a new hydrodynamic shaft seal system (HD seal) that can withstand station black-out (SBO) conditions for a period of 120 hours.

Westinghouse Electric Co.’s PaR Nuclear Inc., a supplier of fuel-handling equipment and nuclear cranes, has signed agreements to establish a joint venture with Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Group Co., (TYHM), manufacturer of cranes, forging equipment, excavators and other heavy machinery.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff said it is increasing its oversight of Unit 1 at Florida Power & Light (FPL)’s St. Lucie nuclear power plant in Florida as a result of the number and type of unplanned shutdowns the plant has experienced.

L-3 Mapps will proceed with two projects to update the full scope simulator at Axpo’s Beznau nuclear power plant in Switzerland.

Sandvik on May 11, 2012 opened a new mill for the manufacturing of stainless steel and high nickel alloy tubes for use in nuclear power plant steam generators.

More than 1,300 steam generator tubes have been plugged at the 2,150 MW San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) as plant owner Southern California Edison (SCE) continues to investigate the cause of the accelerated wear.

Southern California Edison (SCE), an Edison International company, said costs associated with inspections and repairs to the 2,200 MW San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) could land between $55 million and $65 million.

AZZ Inc., a manufacturer of electrical products and a provider of galvanizing services, said it has entered into an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Nuclear Logistics Inc., a provider of electrical and mechanical equipment and services for enhancing the safety of nuclear facilities.

Curtiss-Wright Corp. said it has acquired the Versatile Measuring Instruments (VMI) and Lisle-Metrix (L-M) product lines from the Amidyne Group for about $7 million.

Schott Electronic Packaging said it has received the nuclear ASME-NPT and Material Organization certifications for its plant in Landshut, Germany, producing hermetic glass-to-metal sealed Electrical Penetration Assemblies.

The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) said the industry has met its March 31, 2012 deadline for ordering additional on-site portable equipment to be used in emergencies.

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) released a report April 10 that examines the underlying technical factors leading to the loss of critical systems at the Fukushima Daiichi reactors following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2011.

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) recently reinstalled fish nets near the water inlet used by the 3,100 MW Pickering Nuclear Generating Station for cooling the plant, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) said.

GSE Systems Inc. has signed separate contracts with two Chinese nuclear engineering companies to deliver engineering simulation solutions that provide a verification and validation (V&V) platform of instrumentation and control (I&C) systems for new third generation nuclear plants being built in China.

The NRC voted 4-1, just as the Commission did for the Plant Vogtle COLs.

Westinghouse Electric Co. has awarded Emerson Process Management a contract to provide critical control valves to be used in two AP1000 pressurized water reactors at the 2,430 MW Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia.

Hyperion Power Generation Inc. changed its name to Gen4 Energy Inc.

Westinghouse Electric Co. said on March 19 it has completed fabrication of all 157 fuel assemblies and related components needed to operate the first-ever AP1000 nuclear power plant, Sanmen Unit 1, in Zhejiang province, China.