- Palo Verde's outage ALARA success: Is it repeatable and beatable? by Mark Fallon
- A look inside Callaway's 18th refueling outage, by John Bassford
- Six-year Bruce A restart project moves toward conclusion, by Dick Kovan
The issue also contains a special report on the fiscal year 2013 budgets for the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Other news in the issue: the NRC issues licensees its first post-Fukushima lessons-learned orders and requests for information; vendor partnerships may lead to siting of small modular reactors at the Savannah River Site; the Nuclear Energy Institute rebuts the NRC on degraded voltage issue; Florida Power & Light Company comments on the draft environmental assessment and the finding of no significant impact for St. Lucie power uprate; the NGNP Industry Alliance backs Areva's reactor design for a Next Generation Nuclear Plant; FENOC says that the 1978 blizzard caused cracks in Davis-Besse's shield building; the NRC acts on contentions in Seabrook's and Pilgrim's license renewal proceedings; the ASLB's second partial initial decision favors South Texas-3 and -4; another off-site loss of power at the Byron plant; and two reports express concerns about National Nuclear Security Administration's management of national security laboratories.
International news includes: North Korea agrees to a moratorium on nuclear activities; another setback for the International Atomic Energy Agency's safeguards efforts in Iran; the majority of Japan's mayors and governors would accept restart of shutdown reactors; the ANS special committee releases its report on Fukushima Daiichi; Russia's Rosenergoatom begins construction of Baltic nuclear plant; Areva aims to expand the supply chain in Czech Republic and Poland; the United Kingdom government addresses nuclear waste, decommissioning costs; Finnish government urges nuclear companies to cooperate on waste management; and a report that proposes an international concept for spent fuel storage.
And there is much more.
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The month of May is knocking on the door, but don't forget to turn to your April issue of Nuclear News magazine for the latest in outage management news. The April issue, which is available in hard copy and electronically for American Nuclear Society members (must enter ANS user name and password in Member Center), contains the following articles on outage management: