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The New York Department of Public Service has put forward a proposal to help preserve New York's upstate nuclear power plants by valuing their zero-emissions attributes based on the social cost of carbon. The department estimates that the state will realize $5 billion in benefits in the first two years alone if the proposal is implemented.

Preserving existing nuclear capacity and preparing to build large amounts of new nuclear capacity in the next decade are strategic imperatives for the USA, the Nuclear Energy Institute has told the US Department of Energy.

Sheffield Forgemasters International LtdÌýand NuScale have announced they will work together to develop the manufacturing techniques required for the future deployment of small modular reactors in the UK.

Japan's Toshiba Corporation has withdrawn its application to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to renew the design certification for its Advanced Boiling Water Reactor, saying it does not expect any new opportunities to build the reactor in the USA.

Areva has announced a number of contracts in the nuclear fuel cycle. The contracts relate to used fuel management at a Belgian research reactor, a Romanian waste repository and the supply of used fuel storage canisters in the USA.

The leaders of Canada, Mexico and the USA pledged yesterday to generate 50% of their energy using clean power sources by 2025, using sources including nuclear, renewable and carbon capture and storage technologies.

Georgia Power's Vogtle construction project has reached a new milestone with the placement of unit 4's CA05 module into the reactor's containment building.

Areva TN has opened a new facility for casting concrete components for its NUHOMS horizontal storage modules for used nuclear fuel.

Eight years after requesting information on flood protection at the Oconee nuclear power plant, the US Nuclear Regulatory CommissionÌýhas concluded that modifications carried out by Duke Energy would adequately protect the plant from a potential failure of a nearby dam.

Omaha Public Power District'sÌýboard of directors has confirmedÌýthe Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in NebraskaÌýwill close by the end of this year. The board saidÌýretirement of the single-unit pressurized water reactor is in the best financial interest of the district.

Over $82 million in nuclear energy research, facility access, crosscutting technology development and infrastructure awards were announced yesterday by the US Department of Energy.

Eight small businesses have been chosen to receive a share of a $2 million pilot project to help them access the US Department of Energy'sÌýnuclear energy-related knowledge and capabilities under the department's Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in NuclearÌýinitiative.