Nuclear power

Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear Energy Gains Support, but Current Producers Plan No New Reactors

Finland's nuclear power producers do not plan to build more reactors, although support for nuclear is at record levels. Meanwhile plans for an entirely new plan…

Nuclear Power Plant

Koeberg Nuclear Power Station Unit 2 Going Offline

After over 450 days of uninterrupted operation, Unit 2 of the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station will on Monday 17 January 2022 be taken offline for a regular refuel…

Nuclear Fusion

General Fusion Achieves Technology Milestone

Canada’s General Fusion announced that it had achieved several aggressive performance goals of a prototype system for its Fusion Demonstration Plant.

Nuclear Power Plant

Saudi Arabia to Develop Nuclear Power Programme

Saudi Arabia aims to take advantage of its uranium resources to develop its nuclear power program

Nuclear Power Plant

Westinghouse could Build AP1000 Reactors at Czech Nuclear Site

Westinghouse Electric Company signed MOUs with seven companies to potentially deploy the company’s AP1000 nuclear reactor for the Dukovany 5 project in the Cze…

Nuclear Power Plant

Kotin Elaborates Ukraine's AP1000 Plans

Energoatom is currently weighing up its options for suppliers to its programme.

Nuclear Power Plant

Fresh Delay to Flamanville 3 Blamed on Pandemic

The start of operations for the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in France has been put back, with EDF saying the Covid-19 pandemic had made preparations "more difficu…

Nuclear Power Plant

Applications Made to Build El Dabaa Units 3 and 4

Egypt's El Dabaa nuclear power project has moved forward with the application for construction licences for units 3 and 4.

Nuclear Reactor

3D Printing for Nuclear Reactors Steps off the Big Screen

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation has licensed a novel method to 3D print components for nuclear reactors.

Nuclear Reactor

Hyundai Engineering Secures Exclusive EPC Rights for USNC's Micro Modular Reactor Projects

The amount of equity investment is US$30 million.

Kazakhstan

Kazatomprom Says Operations 'Normal' Despite Unrest

Kazatomprom's offices, production facilities and mines have not been impacted by civil unrest that began in the country on 2 January and are operating normally.…

Nuclear Power Plant

Heysham 2 and Torness End Dates Brought Forward by EDF

The Heysham 2 and Torness advanced gas-cooled reactor nuclear power stations in the UK are to stop generating electricity in 2028.

France

Hungarian Government Partners with Framatome on Nuclear Innovation

French nuclear company Framatome and the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Hungary have signed a memorandum of understanding facilitating cooperation in …

Nuclear Power Plant

France Expects New Nuclear Reactors to Begin Operation in 2035-37

She said the new reactors would be EPR2 models, improved versions of EDF's EPR, which has suffered years of delays and billions of euros of cost overruns on uni…

Market Analysis

Nuclear Energy will Require '€20 billion per year' Until 2050

Nuclear power will play a "fundamental role" in meeting Europe's energy demands, said EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton to French newspaper Journal…