Nuclear power

Uranium Project

Honeymoon Redevelopment Work Progresses

The first wellfield has been completed at the Honeymoon in-situ leach (ISL) uranium project in South Australia ahead of its restart by the end of this year, Bos…

Nuclear waste

Agreement Facilitates WIPP Permit Renewal

The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Salado Isolation Mining Contractors (SIMCO) have negotiated a settlement agr…

Nuclear waste

UK Begins Studies to Assess Four Potential Repository Sites

Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) is starting the process of evaluating four potential areas for suitability to host the UK's Geological Disposal Facility. It is…

Nuclear waste

Regulators Begin Final Safety Inspection Before Treated Fukushima Wastewater Is Released Into Sea

Japanese regulators began a final inspection on Wednesday before treated radioactive wastewater is released from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pa…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: Decades of Research Are Still Needed Before Fusion Can Be Used as Clean Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy reported a major scientific breakthrough in nuclear fusion science in December 2022. For the first time, more energy was released …

Solar Panel

In April, U.S. Electrical Generation by Wind Exceeded Coal While Solar + Wind Out-produced Nuclear Power.

Washington DC – According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), wind produced mor…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Japan's Nuclear Authority to Carry Out Final Inspection of Fukushima

Photo : YONHAP NewsJapan's Nuclear Regulation Authority(NRA) is set to conduct an overall inspection of facilities built for the planned release of radioact…

SMR

US Reaffirms Support for Indian Membership of Nuclear Suppliers Group

The US reaffirmed its support for Indian membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) during the state visit to Washington of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Japan's Kansai Electric to Restart Takahama 1

Japan's Kansai Electric Power Company has informed the Fukui prefectural government that it plans to restart unit 1 at its Takahama NPP in late July, follow…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Alabama Site Selected for MMR Assembly Plant

US-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), which is developing fourth-generation gas-cooled microreactors has selected Gadsden in Alabama as the location o…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Contract for Cernavoda Tritium Removal Facility

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) has signed a contract worth KRW260 billion (USD200 million) to construct a tritium removal facility at Romania's Cernavod…

ITER

ITER Delays Revision of Project's Timeline

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project's council has put back for a year an announcement on its updated timeline for the…

SMR

Finnish SMR Targets District Heating Market

A schematic of the LDR-50 reactor design (Image: VTT)Steady Energy said it will use the funds raised for research and development work to demonstrate the functi…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

NUKEM Supplies Equipment to China's Zhangzhou NPP

Germany-based NUKEM Technologies has delivered equipment and related services for a spent ion exchange resin treatment plant at China’s Zhangzhou NPP in F…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Upper Inner Containment Dome Installed at Tianwan 7

The upper part of the inner containment dome has been installed at unit 7 of China’s Tianwan NPP, which is being built with the assistance of Rosatom&rsqu…