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Westinghouse Begins Joint Licensing Process for Microreactor in Us and Canada

Image: The Westinghouse eVinci microreactor is perfectly suited to provide power in remote locations (courtesy of Westinghouse)Westinghouse Electric Company has…

Finland

Posiva Crew Gets to Grips With Drilling Machine

Finnish radioactive waste management company Posiva Oy has completed the drilling of the first two deposition holes at the Onkalo underground used nuclear fuel …

Nuclear Power Plant

Reprieved Illinois Plants to Be Uprated

US utility Constellation has announced it will invest USD800 million in new equipment to increase the output of its Braidwood and Byron nuclear power plants in …

Nuclear Power Plant

Poland Moves Forward With Country’s First Nuclear Power Plant

Westinghouse and Poland’s Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe (PEJ) have finalized a contract for pre-design work on what would be that country’s first nucl…

China news

Outer Dome Installed at Zhangzhou 1

The outer steel dome has been installed at unit 1 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province, China Nuclear Engineering and Constructio…

Nuclear Power Plant

한전, 튀르키예·영국에 '원전 수주' 재도전

정승일 한전 사장(왼쪽)이 파티흐 된메즈 튀르키예 에너지천연자원부 장관과 신규 원전사업 협력 방안 협의 후 악수하고 있다.국내 원전산업계가 해외원전 수주에 박차를 …

Energy Technology

Nuclear-Hydrogen Economy: How Nuclear-Hydrogen Nexus Can Fit Together in Practice

The rapidly-expanding hydrogen economy is set to be a world-wide opportunity for nuclear and for an important new route to clean energy. Taking advantage of tha…

Nuclear Reactor

Further Delays, Higher Cost for Vogtle Project Announced

Vogtle Unit 3, in January. (Photo: Georgia Power)Already for the second time this year, Southern Company has announced a delay to the expected commercial operat…

Nuclear Power Plant

UAE Launches Nuclear Day

Date commemorates the issuance on 16 February 2020 of the licence to operate Unit 1 of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the UAEThe Cabinet of the United Arab …

Nuclear Decommissioning

Finland Approves the Life Extension of the 1 GW Loviisa Nuclear Plant to 2050

The Finnish Government has granted an operating licence to Finland’s power group Fortum for the life extension of the Loviisa-1 and Loviisa-2 nuclear powe…

Nuclear Technology

Correction: Nuclear Removed From VA. Energy Fund Bill

O'QuinnNuclear Newswire erroneously reported this morning that the Virginia Senate’s Finance and Appropriations Committee on February 15 advanced legi…

Nuclear waste

Hanford Waste Tanks Moved for Disposal

Two empty waste tanks weighing more than five tons each were transported from outside the Hanford Site’s Effluent Treatment Facility to an onsite landfill…

Nuclear Fusion

SPARC Fusion Power Demo Construction Is Underway Outside of Boston

CFS CEO Bob Mumgaard showing Sen. Warren (left) and Secretary Granholm (center) around the SPARC facility. (Photo: CFS)Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) hosted …

Nuclear Fusion

Commonwealth Fusion Systems Opens New Development Campus

Image: Commonwealth Fusion SystemsCambridge, Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ new campus is expected to accelerate its path to commercial …

Nuclear Power Plant

River Bend Begins Its 22nd Refueling Outage

The River Bend nuclear power plant. (Photo: Entergy)Entergy’s River Bend nuclear power plant started its 22nd scheduled refueling and maintenance outage o…