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Bulgaria Energy Strategy Includes Four New Nuclear Reactors

Energy minister Rossen Hristov has set out an energy strategy for 2023 to 2053 for Bulgaria, which includes plans for two new reactors at Kozloduy and two at Be…

Canada

Candu Fuel Plant Relicensed to 2043

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)'s authorisation of the 20-year renewal of Cameco Fuel Manufacturing's (CFM) operating licence for the faci…

Nuclear Fusion

DOE Announces New Funding for Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Fusion Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $2.3 million in funding for 10 projects that will pair private industry with DOE's National Laboratories t…

United Kingdom

Transfer of Waste From Berkeley Vaults Begins

The first concrete box containing radioactive waste from underground vaults at the shut down Berkeley nuclear power plant in the UK has been transferred to an i…

Ammonia

Ammonia Co-firing Study Planned for Thai Thermal Power Plant

Hiromi Ishii (Director, Power Systems Project Engineering Department, Steam Power Maintenance Innovation (SPMI) Business Division/MHI) (1st from bottom right) a…

Nuclear Equipment

French Nuclear Fleet Failure, Drought and War to Blame for Record Power Prices in 2022

Last year Europe saw very high levels of wholesale power prices, driven by gas prices that repeatedly broke all-time high records since the start of the Ukraine…

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia Proposes Power Plant for Lunar Base

Scientists at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University (MSTU) and the All-Russian Research Institute of Aviation Materials (VIAM, part of the Kurchatov Inst…

Nuclear Power Plant

Grossi Holds Talks With Italian Leaders and Pope Francis

Italy is a steadfast partner in the challenges facing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today with a long history of achievements in the nuclear fie…

SMR

French Bill on Accelerating Nuclear New Build Progresses to Senate

The French Senate has begun discussing a bill aimed at accelerating procedures related to the construction of new nuclear facilities near existing nuclear sites…

Nuclear Technology

South Korean Investment in X-Energy

X-energy of the USA - developer of the Xe-100 high temperature gas-cooled small modular reactor (SMR) as well as TRISO advanced nuclear fuel - has announced a s…

South Korea

South Korean President: Country Needs More Nuclear Power

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said his country’s push to be carbon-neutral by 2050 must include construction of more nuclear power generation, in a…

Japan

Japan, Us Partner to Develop Small Modular Reactors

Source: Johannes Plenio (Unsplash)They will also explore other next-generation advanced reactors.The Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) and the US …

Nuclear Technology

General Fusion’s UK demo gets go ahead

Canada-based General Fusion has been granted permission to construct a demonstration of its fusion technology at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) …

Nuclear Technology

Slovenia Extends Nuclear Plant Operation Until 2043

Slovenia's sole nuclear plant has been granted the environmental and safety approval needed to extend its operations until 2043, the government said Monday.…

Nuclear Reactor

Poland’s Respect Energy Considers Deploying French SMR Design

Polish renewable energy trader Respect Energy has signed an agreement with EDF to cooperate on the development of nuclear power projects in Poland based on Fran…