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Nuclear Policy

​ Africa Pushing A Synchronized Nuclear Agenda

There is a crop of new generation nuclear reactor designs that are much safer than previous models. There are also strict processes and regulations in place for…

Micro Reactor

Conference Reveals Growing Optimism for Small Reactors

Conference flected a widespread acknowledgment that cost continues to be a major obstacle to the wider use of nuclear power, but also revealed a growing optimis…

Nuclear Power Plant

EDF Hartlepool Power Station Shuts Down Nuclear Reactor for Nine Weeks

The shutdown will allow more than 1,200 pieces of work to be carried out over the next nine weeks after two years of planning. Around 500 extra workers will joi…

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia's Floating Nuclear Power Plant to Be Commissioned

The floating power unit Akademik Lomonosov has arrived at the port of its permanent location in Pevek, Chukotka, in Russia's Far East, where it is being docked …

Nuclear Power Plant

EDF has Warned Several of its Nuclear Reactors may have Problems

In a statement published on its website, EDF said nuclear reactor company Framatome – formerly called AREVA – informed it of a “deviation from technical stan…

OMZ

OMZ is a provider of primary circuit equipment for nuclear power plants with pressurized water reactors. Its subsidiaryIzhora Plantsproduces forgings for nuclea…

NuScale Power

NuScale is a manufacturer and systems engineering company for small modular nuclear reactors.

OKB Gidropress

OKB Gidropress, a subsidiary of Rosatom, is a nuclear reactor design and engineering company.

OKBM Afrikantov

OKBM Afrikantov, a subsidiary of Rosatom, is a nuclear reactor design and engineering company.

Nuclear Power Plant

Top Ten Biggest Nuclear Power Plants in China

China is the ninth largest country in terms of nuclear power capacity, with 48 nuclear power plants in operations and another nine under construction.

Nuclear Power Plant

Tokyo Electric Power May Start Reactors at World's Biggest Nuclear Plant

Tokyo Electric Power said on Monday it may start to decommission at least one nuclear reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant, the world’s biggest nuclea…

Nuclear Power Plant

Control Room Launched at Hanford Waste Treatment Plant

The control room for the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Facility at the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Hanford site in Washington State has been commissioned…

Nuclear Power Plant

Rosatom Insists 2-Reactor Unit is Safe as Tests are Planned in the Arctic

On Friday, three tugs will tow the Akademik Lomonosov barge out of Murmansk to begin a 5,000km voyage to a remote port on the other side of Russia’s Arctic coa…

Nuclear Power Plant

EDF Energy is Expected to Restart the Hunterston B Nuclear Reactor

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) will allow the 40-year-old generator in North Ayrshire to run for four months, 17 months after it was shut down to inves…

Rosatom

Rosatom Postpones Fast Neutron Reactor Programme

Rosenergoatom is expected to receive about RUB280 billion (USD4 billion) less in state funding for the construction of new nuclear reactors in Russia owing to t…