Reactor

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Argentina's Carem SMR Project to Have Critical Design Review

The Critical Design Review for Argentina's CAREM small modular reactor should be completed within 60 days, the new president of the National Atomic Energy C…

Nuclear Reactor

RWE Permitted to Dismantle Gundremmingen Plant

German utility RWE announced it has received the third and final licence from the Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection to decommi…

Uranium Project

Framatome and TerraPower have agreed to design and develop a high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) metallisation pilot plant at Framatome's nuclear fuel manufacturing facility in Richland, Washingto

The Richland fuel manufacturing facility (Image: Framatome)Metallisation is a crucial part of the deconversion process to turn enriched uranium hexafluoride - U…

Nuclear Reactor

S. Korea to Build Up to 3 New Nuclear Reactors by 2038

Saeul Nuclear Power Plant in Ulsan, 299 kilometers south of Seoul (Nuclear Safety And Security Commission)South Korea plans to build up to three new nuclear rea…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

KAERI and Seaborg Sign MoU on Cooperation

The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) and Danish floating nuclear power plant developer Seaborg are to collaborate on advancing nuclear technologie…

SMR

SMR Developers Enlist French Nuclear Expertise

Thorizon of the Netherlands has signed a cooperation agreement with France's EDF R&D to advance the Thorizon One molten salt reactor design. Meanwhile, Blue…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Takahama Units Cleared for Extended Operation

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has approved the operation of units 3 and 4 at Kansai Electric Power Company's Takahama nuclear power plant i…

Nuclear Reactor

Hungary's Government Signs Deal with Belarus to Help Build Nuclear Reactor

Members of the Hungarian delegation, led by Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, attend a meeting with Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Aleinik in Minsk, Belarus…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Environmental Regulator Approves BN-1200 Fast Reactor Deployment at Beloyarsk

The Beloyarsk nuclear power station in central Russia where the new Generation IV fast reactor will be built. Courtesy Rosatom.Russia’s environmental regu…

HTGR

Jacobs to Assist in Development of UK-Japanese HTGR

The UK's National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) has appointed engineering group Jacobs to help in the development of a high temperature gas reactor design that i…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Fuel Loading Completed at France's Flamanville 3 EPR

The process of loading fuel assemblies into the core of the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in France has been completed ahead of its start-up. The 1650 MWe (gross) p…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Large-Scale Nuclear Included in Australian Cost Report

Large-scale nuclear has been included for the first time in national science agency CSIRO's annual GenCost report, which has included small modular reactors…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Hot Testing Completed at First Zhangzhou Unit

Tests that simulate the temperatures and pressures which the reactor systems will be subjected to during normal operation have been completed at unit 1 of the Z…

SMR

Control Room Commissioned at Chinese SMR

The main control room of the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project at the Changjiang site on China's island province of Hainan, has officially …

Nuclear Equipment

MHI Awarded Additional Contract for ITER Fusion Machine

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has been awarded a contract to supply a further 12 outer vertical targets for the divertor to be used in the International The…