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First Overseas Nuclear Reactor Using Hualong One Technology Completes Hot Functional Tests

​The K2 unit at the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant in Pakistan successfully completed hot functional tests on Friday, laying a solid foundation for subsequent ass…

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Dominion Energy Announces Nuclear License Renewal Application for North Anna Power Station

Dominion Energy, has filed an application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to renew North Anna Power Station's operating licenses for an additional …

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Zhangzhou Unit 2 Construction Starts

The pouring of first safety-related concrete has started for the second Hualong One unit at the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province.

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Kursk II Completes Steam Generator Hydraulic Tests

Atommash has completed hydraulic tests on the first steam generator for the Kursk II nuclear power plant under construction in Western Russia.

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Baltic States Agree to Block Nuclear Power from Belarus

The ministries responsible for the energy sector in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have reached an agreement to cease electricity trading with Belarus when it co…

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Rolls-Royce Wins Contract for ZhangZhou Units

Rolls-Royce, the British engineering firm, has been awarded a "multi-million-euro" contract by CNNC to provide the Neutron Flux Monitoring System for two nuclea…

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The World's First Hualong One Reactor Begins to Load Fuel

The first fuel loading of Hualong One in the world’s first reactor of China National Nuclear Corporation's Fuqing Nuclear Power Unit 5 officially began.

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Hualong One: Fuqing No. 5 Unit Obtains Operating License

On September 4, 2020, the issuing ceremony of the operation license for Unit 5 of Fujian Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant was held in Beijing.

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China's Approved Two Nuclear Power Plants to Boost the Economy and Reduce Pollution

The Government of China has reportedly approved the construction of two nuclear power projects in the country.

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S Korea's 9 Nuclear Plants Restarting Sep-Oct to Pressure LNG Demand

South Korea is on track to restart operations at eight nuclear power plants, that were shut for maintenance, and start a newly built plant over the next two mon…

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EDF Allowed Operating Scottish Nuclear Plant Despite 2022 Retirement

French multinational power generation firm EDF has received Scottish regulatory approval to temporarily start generating power at the Hunterston B nuclear stati…

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Nuclear Industry Collaborates to Create Blueprint for Cheaper Nuclear Power

A cross-industry team working for the UK government-backed Nuclear Sector Deal has set out an ambitious framework to reduce risks and cut the cost of constructi…

Energy Technology

Rosatom Extends Digital Technology Progress

The Russian government, Rosatom and Rostec have signed a statement of intent for the development of end-to-end digital technology.

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First Nuclear Reaction Recorded at the Innovative Power Unit 6 of Leningrad NPP

The final physical start-up stage of the innovative power unit 6 with a VVER-1200 reactor was launched at Leningrad NPP.

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Exelon to Close Byron and Dresden Nuclear Power Plants

US-based Exelon Generation has announced that it intends to retire its Byron and Dresden nuclear power plants in Illinois in autumn 2021.