TORONTO—October 19, 2021—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and BWXT Canada Ltd. (BWXT Canada) have entered into a teaming agreement to cooperate on engineering and procurement to support the design, manufacturing and commercialization of the BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR).
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WARSAW, Poland—September 23, 2021—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), GEH SMR Technologies Canada, Ltd. (GEH SMR Canada), Cameco Corporation (Cameco) and Synthos Green Energy (SGE), a member of the Synthos Group S.A., have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to evaluate the potential establishment of a uranium fuel supply chain in Canada capable of servicing a potential fleet of BWRX-300 small modular reactors (SMRs) in Poland.
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WILMINGTON, North Carolina—September 22, 2021—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has named Adam DeMella its global government affairs leader.
In this position DeMella will lead GEH’s domestic and international government affairs. He joins GEH from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) where he served as director of federal affairs. Before that he served as a professional staff member for the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, overseeing a portfolio that included nuclear energy and national security funding within the Department of Energy.
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Canada, like many industrialized countries, has pledged to reduce its net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. But what makes Canada unique is how it wants to achieve that goal. Like others, it has been boosting renewables like wind and solar. But it also plans to add to the mix a powerful new source: small modular reactors, or SMRs.
SMRs can generate carbon-free electricity while overcoming some of the nuclear industry’s biggest challenges — namely, cost and lengthy construction times.
WILMINGTON, NC—July 28, 2021—The Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant (KKL) has awarded a long-term contract extension to GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to provide outage services for the plant in Leibstadt, Switzerland.
“We have supported KKL with outage and inspection services since it went into operation in 1984 and we are proud to continue this strong working relationship,” said John Mackleer, Senior Vice President, Field Services for GEH.
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Indigenous Canadians are encouraged to apply for skilled career oppportunities that will support the rollout of the future next generation nuclear fleet in Canada.
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Creates 80 skilled positions in Markham, Ontario to support deployment of new, carbon-free nuclear power technology
TORONTO—July 15, 2021—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced the creation of 80 highly skilled jobs in Ontario to support the deployment of BWRX-300 small modular reactors (SMRs) in Canada and around the world. The professional technical jobs will be based at GEH’s Canada SMR headquarters in Markham, Ontario and are primarily in engineering, project management, sourcing and quality.
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TORONTO—July 7, 2021—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas (GNF-A) and Cameco Corporation (Cameco) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to explore several areas of cooperation to advance the commercialization and deployment of BWRX-300 small modular reactors (SMRs) in Canada and around the world.
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Report by PwC Canada finds that GE is positioned to help Canada become a global SMR leader
TORONTO—June 1, 2021—An independent report by PwC Canada, commissioned by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), estimates the potential economic benefits that would result from job creation, local supply chain development, manufacturing, construction, operation and tax revenue generated by the deployment of BWRX-300 small modular reactors in Canada and the potential export of this technology worldwide.
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WILMINGTON, NC—May 11, 2021—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and GE Digital today announced the introduction of Outage Planning and Analytics (OPA), a digital solution to help nuclear power plant operators plan, schedule and execute maintenance and refueling outages. The application was developed by GEH and GE Digital to help plant operators evaluate schedule status, track activities, estimate impacts and improve decision-making.
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