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Video| Grossi on Fukushima: Marking a Decade Since the Accident

​IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi issued a statement to mark the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident.

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Czech Regulator Awards Site Licence for Dukovany Units

The Czech Republic's State Office for Nuclear Safety yesterday issued a site licence for two new reactor units at the existing Dukovany nuclear power plant site…

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UAE Licenses Second Unit of Barakah Nuclear Power Plant

Barakah's Unit 1 was connected to the national power grid in August and in December reached 100% of reactor power capacity during testing

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Bill Gates's Next-Gen Nuclear Plant Packs in Grid-Scale Energy Storage

Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, wave energy ... Renewable sources are a crucial pillar of any plan to decarbonize the world's energy generation industries and e…

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Nearly All of Nation’s 94 Nuclear Facilities Rate in the Top Performance Level

All but four of the nation’s 94 operating nuclear power plants are performing at the highest safety and security levels, according to a new release from the U.…

Belarus

Ostrovets Unit 2 Begins Simulated Fuel Loading

The loading of 'dummy' fuel assemblies began yesterday at unit 2 of the new nuclear power plant in Ostrovets, Belarus.

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China Should Speed Nuclear Development to Meet Carbon Goals

China should accelerate development of nuclear power to help meet Beijing's pledges to bring greenhouse gas emissions to a peak before 2030 and become "carbon n…

Germany

Germany Agrees Compensation for Nuclear Phaseout

The German government has reached an agreement with EOn, EnBW, RWE and Vattenfall on compensation for the forced premature closure of their nuclear power reacto…

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Hungary and Poland Plan Nuclear to Replace Coal

Hungary is now the sixth European country to bring forward its coal phaseout plan, announcing that it will shut its last remaining coal plant in 2025.

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Start of Fuel Assembly Simulators Loading at Unit 2 of BNPP

On March 7, the loading of fuel assembly simulators started at Unit 2 of the Belarus NPP

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Pakistan’s Karachi 2 Achieves Criticality

The 1,100MWe K-2, one of two Chinese supplied Hualong One reactors at the site, is expected to begin commercial operation by the end of May.

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TVEL Unit Launches CFR-600 Fuel Production Site

Elemash Machine-building plant has launched a production site for the fabrication of fuel for China's flagship fast neutron reactor, the CFR-600.

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Rolls-Royce and Fermi Energia Sign SMR MOU

Rolls-Royce and Fermi Energia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to study the potential for the deployment of small modular reactors in Estonia.

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Fuqing Nuclear Power Unit 5 Runs at Full Power to Generate Electricity

The world’s first reactor of Hualong One-Fujian Fuqing Nuclear Power Unit 5, "firepowered", ran at full power and generated more than 27 million kWh on the sam…

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Leningrad II-2 Enters Final Testing Phase

Unit 2 of the Leningrad II nuclear power plant in western Russia has entered the final stage of pilot operation - a 15-day programme of tests at nominal capacit…