Nuclear

Nuclear Power Plant

Why NASA Wants to Put a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy will seek proposals from industry to build a nuclear power plant on the moon and Mars to support its long-term exploratio…

Nuclear Power Plant

Anglesey has 'Best Site in UK for Nuclear Plant'

A leading American engineering firm has said Wylfa is considered by many as "the best site in the UK" to build a large new nuclear power plant.

Nuclear Policy

Vattenfall Wins Case Against German Nuclear Phaseout

Germany must completely rework its nuclear power phaseout compensation system, the country's top court has ruled.

Hydrogen Project

US Nuclear Lab Partnering with Utility to Produce Hydrogen

​The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded just under $14 million for an attempt to build a hydrogen-energy production facility at a nuclear power plant in Min…

SMR

NuScale Announces SMR Power Uprate

NuScale Power has announced a 25% increase in power output for its NuScale Power Module small modular reactor, which it says will lead to significant cost savin…

Nuclear Power Plant

Local Consent Clears Way for Restart of Onagawa 2

Tohoku Electric Power Company today received approval from Murai Yoshihiro, the governor of Miyagi Prefecture, to restart unit 2 of its Onagawa nuclear plant in…

SMR

Rosatom Plans First Land-Based SMR for Russian Far East

Rosatom plans to build a nuclear power plant equipped with an RITM-200 small modular reactor in the village of Ust-Kuyga, in Yakutia, which is in Far Eastern Ru…

Nuclear Equipment

RPV For Power Unit 1 Delivered to Akkuyu NPP

Equipment of major importance for Power Unit 1 – the reactor pressure vessel – has been delivered to the Akkuyu NPP site, having covered a distance of 3,000 k…

Nuclear Power Plant

Belarus Nuclear Plant Stops Power Output Soon After Opening

Belarus' first nuclear power plant stopped generating electricity the day after it was formally opened by President Alexander Lukashenko and some of its equipme…

Hualong One

"Hualong One" Obtained the Certification Issued by the European EUR Organization!

Obtaining the results of the EUR certification means that the design of "Hualong One" meets the latest European nuclear power regulatory requirements.

ITER

General Atomics Wins ITER Contract

The MTC, where the waveguide assemblies will be produced, is also the facility where GA is fabricating the ITER Central Solenoid.

Estonia Forms Working Group on Nuclear Energy

The Estonian government has decided to establish a national Working Group to consider the introduction of nuclear power generation.

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia Retires Leningrad 2 RBMK

The Leningrad 2 nuclear power unit in in Sosnovy Bor in Western Russia was shut down permanently today.

Nuclear Technology

MITAB20-Ian-Stable Salt Reactors - A New Platform Technology in Nuclear Fission

MITAB20-Ian-Stable Salt Reactors - a new platform technology in nuclear fission.

Nuclear Power Plant

SPIC QingHe Maintenance Company: Successfully Completed the LA216 Overhaul of Ling Ao NPP

The overhaul of Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plant LA216 undertaken by SPIC Qinghe Maintenance Company successfully completed all maintenance tasks.