Nuclear

Nuclear Equipment

First Container of Damaged Used Fuel Sent to Storage at Ignalina

The first container holding damaged nuclear fuel has been placed in the interim spent nuclear fuel storage facility at Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania…

Market Analysis

IAEA: Nuclear Power a Key Component of a Low-Carbon Future

IAEA has released a new report into the potential future of nuclear power around the world, concluding that, in a number of scenarios, nuclear power will be an …

Nuclear Power Plant

Hitachi Exits $26bn Nuclear Power Plant Project in UK

Japanese technology company Hitachi has announced the end of plans for a multi-billion-pound nuclear power plant project in Wales, UK.

Nuclear Power Plant

Why Nuclear Power Will (and Won't) Stop Climate Change

Why nuclear power will (and won't) stop climate change？

Nuclear Power Plant

Further Delays for Japan’s Ohma

J-Power has announced further delays to construction of its Ohma nuclear power palnt in Aomori Prefecture, which is designed to operate solely on plutonium-uran…

Nuclear Power Plant

Hinkley Point C Lift Demonstrates Benefits of Fleet Build

Construction of the second reactor at the Hinkley Point C plant in Somerset, England, passed a major milestone with the lifting of the first part of the massive…

Nuclear Fuel

TVEL has Supplied Nuclear Fuel for Budapest Research Reactor in Hungary

TVEL JSC has supplied nuclear fuel for Budapest research reactor (BRR) in compliance with the contract with the Centre for Energy Research of Hungarian Academy …

Nuclear Power Plant

Atommash Assembles Reactor Vessel for Russia’s Kursk II

Russia’s Atommash has embarked on a key stage in the manufacture of a reactor vessel for the first power unit of Kursk II.

Nuclear Power Plant

Six Korean Reactors Shut Down Due to Salinity During Recent Typhoons

The recent shutdown of six nuclear reactors at South Korea’s Kori and Wolsong nuclear power plants during the typhoons Maysak and Haishen resulted from the fai…

Nuclear Fusion

China Eyes Limitless Clean Energy Through Fusion Reactions

​Chinese scientists have built a device that can sustain fusion reactions to produce a limitless source of energy.

Nuclear Power Plant

China Ditches US Nuclear Technology in Favour of Home-Grown Alternative

China has switched from American nuclear power technology to a domestically developed alternative as worries over energy security and geopolitical uncertainties…

Nuclear Policy

Rosatom Sees Wider Financing Options for New Build

The opportunities to attract private financing to new-build projects are growing, and the Russian state nuclear corporation hopes to draw on its recent experien…

Nuclear Power Plant

China Readying for Vuclear Expansion, Says Zheng

However, he noted that power consumption in some areas, such as 5G networks and big data systems, had risen.

ITER

Doosan Heavy Industries to Supply Pressurizer for ITER Fusion Project

Doosan Heavy Industries will supply a pressurizer for the massive, multi-national nuclear fusion research project – ITER – in southern France.

Energy Transition

Nuclear and Wind to Play Prominent Role in Poland’s Clean Energy Future

On the first day of the Economic Forum which took place 8 September 2020 in Karpacz, Polish Minister of Climate, Michał Jacket, made several announcements conc…