Nuclear power

Nuclear Power Plant

IAEA Launches Review of Fukushima Water Release

A team of International Atomic Energy Agency officials are in Japan to officially launch a multi-year review of the planned release of treated water at the Fuku…

Nuclear Power Plant

Daya Bay Experiment Fully Decommissioned

It was successful in measuring the interactions between neutrinos more accurately than ever before.

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia’s Promise Of Building Nuclear Plants In Africa

For more than two decades, Russia has been struggling to help Africa overcome its energy deficit, with little success.

South Korea

Doosan Heavy to Lead X-energy’s Study on SMR Nuclear Reactor Design

South Korean power infrastructure firm Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction will partner with U.S.-based X-energy on developing and designing tests for advanc…

SMR

Ukraine Signs MOU with NuScale to Develop Small Nuclear Reactors

Small modular reactor designer NuScale Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukraine’s nuclear operator to develop SMR plants in that nation.

Nuclear Fuel

US, Norway Work Together to Eliminate HEU

The MoU calls for downblending activities to begin in 2022 using Norway's existing infrastructure, followed by the eventual deployment of the DOE's Mobile Melt-…

Rosatom

FSUE Atomflot and GDK Baimskaya LLC Sign Preliminary Agreement on Electricity Supply

The agreement was signed in Vladivostok in the framework of the Eastern Economic Forum, as part of a comprehensive investment plan for the development of the Ba…

SMR

Small Nuclear Generation in Yakutia to Use ‘Far Eastern Concession’ Mechanism

On the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum, the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East, the Republic of Sakha and Rosatom State Corporation ha…

Russian Federation

The Novovoronezh NPP: A Team of International Experts Completed an Operational Peer Review of Operating Power Units

From 13 to 27 August 2021, a group of international experts from the World Association of Nuclear Operators, headed by Maxim Dyrovaty, Peer Review Team Leader f…

Nuclear Power Plant

Eskom Confirms Unit 1 Reactor Trip at Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant

South African power utility Eskom confirmed that Koeberg Unit 1 Reactor tripped at 16:30 on Monday, 30 August 2021

Nuclear Equipment

Atommash in 'Rhythm' As It Ships Steam Generators to Turkey

Steam generators for the second reactor of Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant have been dispatched from the Atommash plant in the Volgodonsk area of Russia.

Nuclear Power Plant

Partners to Study Deployment of SMRs at Polish Coal Plant

Polish chemicals group Synthos and energy group ZE PAK have signed an investment agreement to explore the construction of four to six BWRX-300 small modular rea…

Ukraine

US-Ukrainian Energy Partnership Foresees Five New Reactors

Ukraine and the USA have agreed to "deepen and intensify" their strategic cooperation in energy. Nuclear power leads a suite of agreements with a project to com…

Ghana

Ghana Expects to Begin Nuclear Generation in 2030

Dr Stephen Yamoah, Executive Director of Nuclear Power Ghana, said on 26 August that Ghana expected to start the production of nuclear energy by 2030.

Nuclear waste

Slovenia Considers Deep Borehole Disposal

US nuclear waste disposal company Deep Isolation has been awarded a contract to conduct a borehole feasibility study for ARAO, Slovenia's radioactive waste mana…