19 Jul (NucNet): Germany’s E.ON Kernkraft GmbH will exercise an option in an existing contract for additional deliveries of replacement fuel assemblies for its nuclear power plants in Germany, extending the original 2012 contract for additional replacement deliveries to 2016 and 2017, Westinghouse Electric Company said.
Under the terms of the contract, Westinghouse will produce the fuel at its fabrication facility in Västerås, Sweden.
Westinghouse has been one of the main suppliers of fuel to the E.ON Kernkraft nuclear power plants Brokdorf, Grafenrheinfeld, Grohnde and Isar-2 since the early 1990s.
Germany’s government has decided to shut down all of the country’s 17 nuclear reactor units by 2022. Eight of those units remain offline following the March 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident. Nine are still in commercial operation.
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