Platts - Friday, April 11, 2003 http://www.platts.com ------------ Washington (Nuclear News Flashes)--10Apr2003 Framatome claims vessel head replacement record Framatome ANP claimed a world record for quick vessel head replacement at Daya Bay-2 in China. Framatome said it removed the old head and installed a new one in 10 days, five days fewer than initially scheduled. The replacement head was manufactured in Framatome's Chalon St. Marcel factory. Daya Bay-2 returned to service March 19. Framatome plans to replace unit 1's head next year. ------------ Washington (Nuclear News Flashes)--10Apr2003 RWE Nukem to buy ATG nuclear business RWE Nukem will buy Allied Technology Group Inc.'s (ATG) nuclear services division for $4-million. RWE Nukem said the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California approved the sale April 9. Ownership is tentatively scheduled to change June 1. RWE Nukem said the purchase includes ATG's low-level radwaste (LLW) processing equipment and inventory and its LLW processing operations in Richland, Wash. and Oak Ridge, Tenn. ATG sought reorganizational bankruptcy in late 2001 after its primary lenders froze its operating funds. ------------ Washington (Nuclear News Flashes)--9Apr2003 Senate panel approves Price-Anderson Act extension A Senate panel approved a bill to extend the Price- Anderson Act through Aug. 1, 2012. The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee agreed April 9 to an amendment offered by Chairman James Inhofe (R-Okla.) that would add certain nuclear security provisions, including some recommendations made by NRC. Because Inhofe's amendment revised one offered by Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Inhofe said he would continue working with the Nevada senator on areas of concern and would schedule a markup on a stand-alone nuclear security bill the week after the Easter recess. But Inhofe said the committee also might consider chemical and water security along with nuclear security interests. Another amendment accepted to the Price-Anderson bill (S. 156), offered by Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Reid, would prohibit companies from dipping into decommissioning trust funds to pay off any claims to creditors. ------------ Baltimore (Nuclear News Flashes)--9Apr2003 LES hopes for revised partnership agreement by June LES hopes to have a revised partnership agreement in place by June and now anticipates filing a license application with NRC "in the second quarter" of this year to build a gas centrifuge enrichment plant at Hartsville, Tenn., according to LES attorney James Curtiss. Speaking at a Nuclear Energy Institute fuel conference April 8 in Baltimore, Curtiss said that LES, as a prudent business practice, is evaluating alternate sites. He added that about 50% of the plant's 3-million SWU capacity has been reserved under letters of intent from U.S. utilities. ------------ *