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Ukraine

Energoatom and Cameco Sign Uranium Agreements

Energoatom and Cameco have signed agreements covering the supply of Ukrainian uranium and the production of nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants in Ukraine.Tim…

Nuclear waste

Hanford Restarts Liquid Waste Treatment After Maintenance Outage

Workers change out spent 27,000-pound TSCR filter columns and place them on a nearby storage pad during a planned outage. (Photo: DOE)Following a second planned…

Nuclear Power Plant

USA, Indonesia Announce Partnership on SMRs

The USA and Indonesia have announced a strategic partnership to help Indonesia develop its nuclear energy programme, supporting Indonesia's interest in depl…

Nuclear Technology

Plans for Africa’s Nuclear-Powered Future

The African continent is made up of 54 countries and can be broadly divided into North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. For global power, Africa is an emerging fr…

Nuclear Power Plant

GSE to Upgrade Finnish Simulators

US company GSE Systems Inc has been awarded a contract by Finnish power company Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) to upgrade the training simulators for units 1 and …

Nuclear Technology

BWRX-300 Becomes First SMR to Clear Two Phases of Canadian Nuclear Design Review

GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH’s) BWRX-300 design has cleared the first two phases of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s (CNSC) Vendor…

Nuclear Power Plant

UK Classes Nuclear as ‘Environmentally Sustainable’ and Unveils SMR Support

But Budget announcement to group nuclear with renewables divides energy sectorThe future for nuclear energy in the UK was given a significant boost yesterday by…

Nuclear Power Plant

UK Labels Nuclear Power ‘Green’ to Attract Climate-Friendly Capital

Construction workers stay socially distanced as they work inside the nuclear reactor on unit 1 at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station near Bridgwater, Somerse…

Nuclear Power Plant

World’s Largest Class Nuclear Power Reactor to Start in Finland in April

One of the world's largest nuclear reactors will start commercial operation in Finland in April. This will be the first time in about 15 years that a new nu…

Nuclear Decommissioning

Ansaldo Nuclear Wins Romania Life Extension Deal

Cernavoda nuclear power plant.30-month modernization designed to future-proof nuclear power plantSNC-Lavalin has appointed Italy’s Ansaldo Nucleare to sup…

Nuclear Fuel

Subsidiary of Rosatom’s TVEL Fuel Company Will Supply Lithium-7 for a Nuclear Power Plant in Brazil

Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP), an enterprise of TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom, has been awarded as the winner of the tender by the Brazilian Ele…

Energy Security

Japan Mourns 2011 Disaster as Nuclear Support Grows

Japanese offered tearful prayers Saturday on the anniversary of the deadly tsunami that triggered the Fukushima disaster, but public support for nuclear power i…

Nuclear Power Plant

The Works on the Outside Containment Concreting Are Completed Ahead of Schedule at Rooppur NPP Unit 1

At the Rooppur NPP construction site in the People's Republic of Bangladesh (the general designer and general contractor being the Rosatom State Corporation…

Nuclear Power Plant

EDF to Extend Heysham 1 and Hartlepool for Two Extra Years

Nuclear operator EDF has announced that it is to keep the Heysham 1 and Hartlepool nuclear power units operating until 2026, two years longer than previously pl…

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Lawmaker Back With Bill to Bolster U.S. Nuclear Sector

Rep. Earl Buddy Carter (R., Ga.)—a cosponsor of a quartet of pronuclear bills from House colleague Rep. Byron Donalds (R., Fla.)—recently reintroduced his own…