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Nuclear Power Plant

China's Artificial Sun Brings Nuclear Fusion Energy Closer

The previous record was 20 seconds at 100 C set by the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research, the Republic of Korea's superconducting fusion device, o…

Nuclear Power Plant

Norwegian Research Reactor Fuel to be Recycled in UK

The uranium fuel would otherwise have been treated as waste, stored and disposed of in Norway.

Nuclear Fuel

Bulgaria's NPP Kozloduy Reconnects Unit 5 to Grid After Planned Maintenance

Bulgaria's sole nuclear power plant Kozloduy said on Thursday that it has completed the planned annual maintenance of its 1,000 MW Unit 5 and reconnected the un…

Nuclear Equipment

KHNP Lands Orders to Supply Equipment to Romanian Nuclear Power Plants

Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power announced on May 27 that it has been selected as the final supplier in the UPS Voltage Stabilizer Supply Project for Chernaboda Nu…

Nuclear Power Plant

NuScale Signs Agreements at Home and Abroad

Japanese heavy-industry engineering and manufacturing company IHI Corporation is to invest in small modular reactor developer NuScale Power and become a strateg…

Nuclear Power Plant

Atommash Assembles Lower half of Reactor for Tianwan 7

The Volgodonsk branch of Atommash AEM-Technologies has assembled the lower half-shell of the reactor for unit 7 of China’s Tianwan NPP, Atomenergomash said on …

Net Zero Emission

Nuclear could Help Spain Reach Net Zero Goal, Says IEA

The country aims to generate all of its electricity from renewable sources by 2050.

Nuclear Power Plant

Belarus 1 Completes Pilot Operation

Pilot operation of unit 1 at the Belarusian NPP has been completed, Russia’s ASE EC announced on 24 May.

Nuclear waste

Japan's TEPCO to Divert 30,000 tons of Fukushima Wastewater Ahead of Release

Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company will divert 30,000 tons of nuclear polluted water at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to measure radioactive substance…

Nuclear Power Plant

Permit Issued for Chernobyl Used Fuel Transfer

Ukraine's nuclear regulator has issued a permit to SSE Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant for the retrieval of undamaged used nuclear fuel from the ISF-1 interim use…

Nuclear Power Plant

Oyster Creek Defuelled in Record Time

The final canister containing used fuel has been removed from the storage pool of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey, USA, and placed in an on-s…

Nuclear Fuel

Rosatom Develops New Fuel Modification with Lower Uranium Enrichment for Finland’s Loviisa NPP

TVEL, the fuel manufacturer subsidiary of Russia's Rosatom, has completed development of a new modification of VVER-440 fuel for the Loviisa nuclear power plant…

Nuclear Power Plant

South Korea and United States to Cooperate in Nuclear Power Industry

U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in released a joint statement on May 21 and declared that they would cooperate in the global nuclea…

Energy Security

Weak Security Found at TEPCO’s Fukushima No. 2 Nuclear Plant

Inadequate anti-terrorism measures were discovered at another nuclear power station operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., its No. 2 plant in Fukushima Prefectur…

Nuclear Power Plant

Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant's Second Unit's Physical Launch Scheduled for Autumn

The physical launch of the second unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant is supposed to take place in autumn.