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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…

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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…

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Saudi Arabia to Develop Nuclear Power Programme

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

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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…

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Kotin Elaborates Ukraine's AP1000 Plans

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

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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EDF’s Scottish Nuclear Power Plant Hunterston B to Close After 46 Years

EDF’s Hunterston B nuclear power plant in Scotland will close on Friday after some 46 years of operation, the company said.

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Inner Dome Installed at Taipingling 1

Taipingling unit 1, the first of six Hualong One units planned at the site, is scheduled to start up in 2025.

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Cavendish and Jacobs Sign MOU for UK Treatment of Japanese Fast Reactor Sodium Coolant

Cavendish Nuclear and Jacobs have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Japan Atomic Energy Agency for the treatment and re-use in the UK of sodium coolant …

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Russian Nuclear Plants Announce New Electricity Generation Record

Russia’s nuclear utility Rosenergoatom said on 2 January that Russian nuclear power plants had begun 2022 with a new electricity generation record of 222.436TW…

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Kazakhstan Looks at Possible Nuclear Power Plant Sites

Kazakhstan is considering the village of Ulken in the Alma-Ata region and the city of Kurchatov in the East Kazakhstan for the possible construction of its firs…

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First Concrete for Unit 2 of China’s San'ao Nuclear Power Project

First concrete was poured on 30 December for unit 2 of China’s of the San'ao Nuclear Power Project in Zhejiang Province.