Nuclear

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

S. Korea, Indonesia to Discuss Stronger Ties on Nuclear Energy, Key Minerals

SEOUL, May 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Indonesia will discuss ways to boost bilateral cooperation on nuclear power generation, supply chains of major mineral…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Finland’s New Nuclear Plant Brings Down Electricity Prices by Over 75 Percent

(MENAFN) The start of Europe's first new nuclear plant in 16 years has helped bring down electricity prices in Finland by more than 75 percent. The Olkiluot…

Linglong One

How to build Zhangzhou Nuclear Power Plant's Hualong One Reactor Faster and better

Hualong One, China's homegrown nuclear power reactor design, is recognized as one of the world's most advanced third-generation nuclear power units.Two …

SMR

SMR Shows Promise for Campus Use, Study Finds

An ongoing study of the feasibility of using advanced nuclear reactors to power Purdue University's West Lafayette campus in Indiana has found small modular…

Nuclear Technology

Successful Demonstration of New Sludge Removal Technique

A new technique for removing sludge from nuclear fuel ponds has been successfully trialled at one of the UK's largest wet test facilities prior to being use…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

AFCONE and Stuk Collaborate on Nuclear Safeguards in Africa

The African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE) has launched a five-year programme, Uplifting Nuclear Safeguards in Africa, which will have support from the R…

Uranium Project

Final Licence Release for Reclaimed Cluff Lake Mine

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has revoked the uranium mine licence held by Orano Canada Inc for the fully decommissioned Cluff Lake Project in n…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Xudabao 3 Vessel Passes Hydrostatic Tests

The reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for unit 3 at the Xudabao nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning province has successfully completed hydrostatic testing …

Nuclear Reactor

Detecting Neutrinos From Nuclear Reactors With Water

The SNO+ detector 2 kilometers deep in a mine in Ontario, Canada. The image shows the ropes that hold the 12 m-diameter acrylic vessel filled with 1,000 tons of…

Nuclear Reactor

Novel Solution Developed for Removal of Unterweser Reactor Vessel

The reactor pressure vessel has been removed from the reactor pit of the shut down Unterweser nuclear power plant in Germany using a solution developed by Dutch…

Nuclear Decommissioning

Berkeley Decommissioning Work Brought Forward 50 Years

Five decades earlier than planned, Magnox is embarking on the decommissioning project to clean-up and demolish the four 'blower house' structures which …

Nuclear Equipment

Framatome Awarded Ringhals Modernisation Contracts

Framatome has been awarded contracts by Sweden's Vattenfall to update reactor control systems using its digital instrumentation and control (I&C) TELEPERM X…

Nuclear Fusion

Microsoft to Buy Power From Helion Fusion Plant

Global technology company Microsoft has signed an agreement with fusion energy developer Helion Energy for the provision of electricity from its first fusion po…

SMR

Dow’s Seadrift Site Selected for X-Energy SMR Project

Dow has selected its UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas for its proposed advanced small modular reactor (SMR) project with X-Energy Reactor Com…

Nuclear Fusion

Microsoft Agrees to Buy Power From a Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Fusion Startup That’s Yet to Produce Any Electricity

David Paul Morris—Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMicrosoft is making a bold bet that it can get power from nuclear fusion in half a decade’s time.More from Fo…