Reactors

Nuclear Power Plant

Germany, Belgium to Close Nuclear Reactors Despite Europe Energy Crisis

Germany intends to phase out all of its nuclear reactors by the end of next year, while Belgium has decided to shut down its existing plants by 2025.

Nuclear Reactor

IAEA Convenes Global Experts to Assesses High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors for Electricity, Heat and Hydrogen

Several countries have come together at the IAEA to discuss their plans for developing and deploying advanced HTGRs to help decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors su…

Nuclear Reactor

Construction Begins at Kudankulam 6

First concrete has been poured for the latest reactor at India's Kudankulam nuclear power plant. Work is now underway there on two pairs of Russian export react…

Nuclear Decommissioning

Germany Forges Ahead with Nuclear Phase-Out

Germany's nuclear phase-out will continue with the permanent closure of the country's last three nuclear reactors at the end of the year.

Nuclear Power Plant

Kazakhstan Looks to Small Nuclear Reactors

Kazakhstan has begun to investigate the deployment of small reactors with a memorandum of cooperation signed between NuScale and KNPP, a branch of the governmen…

Nuclear Power Plant

France's EDF Takes more Nuclear Reactors Offline After Faults Found

French power giant EDF said on Wednesday it had found faults on pipes in a safety system at its Civaux nuclear power station, and it would shut down another pla…

Nuclear Reactor

RWE Awards German Reactor Dismantling Contracts

German utility RWE has awarded a contract to Westinghouse to dismantle two reactors at the Gundremmingen nuclear facility.

Nuclear Power Plant

Sizewell C could Use Recycled Uranium

She added that the company is working to fuel the reactors with recycled uranium.

Nuclear Reactor

MoU Aims to Produce Co-60 in French PWRs

The agreement is the first step towards production in Europe of the radioisotope for medical uses, the companies said.

Nuclear Power Plant

Components Headed to Akkuyu

Akkuyu, which is currently the largest nuclear construction site in the world with 13,000 people working on a daily basis on the site that will house four large…

Nuclear Power Plant

Westinghouse Signs Initial Contract for Ukrainian AP1000s

A contract signed by the Ukrainian nuclear operator Energoatom and US vendor Westinghouse will trigger the engineering and procurement of components for the fir…

Natural Gas

Korea Gas' Oct LNG Sales Rise 16% on year Amid Nuclear Maintenance, Energy Transition

South Korean state-owned Korea Gas Corp.'s LNG sales rose 15.8% year on year to 2.655 million mt in October, a company official said Nov. 18, driven by the shut…

China

Dual Criticality for Chinese Demonstration HTR-PM

The first of the unit's twin reactors achieved first criticality in September.

Nuclear Reactor

Macron Says France will Build New Nuclear Energy Reactors

France will build new nuclear reactors to help the country lessen its dependence on foreign countries for its energy supplies, meet global warming targets and k…

Nuclear Power Plant

Exelon to Study Making and Storing Hydrogen Power in a Nuclear Plant

Waste heat from reactors can be used to produce hydrogen