Reactors

Carbon Neutral

Nuclear Crucial to Japan Meeting Climate Goals, Says IEA

However, it warned the country must act quickly if it is to achieve its ambition of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. The restart of its idled nuclear power r…

Nuclear Power Plant

Rolls-Royce and Fermi Energia Sign SMR MOU

Rolls-Royce and Fermi Energia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to study the potential for the deployment of small modular reactors in Estonia.

Nuclear Fuel

Tokyo Electric Completes Nuclear Fuel Removal from Fukushima No. 3 Unit

The No. 3 unit is one of the three reactors that suffered core meltdowns following the earthquake and tsunami disaster on March 11, 2011.

Nuclear Reactor

French Regulator Approves 50-Year Operation of 900 MWe Reactors

France's nuclear safety regulator, the Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire, has set the conditions for the continued operation of EDF's 900 MWe reactors beyond 40 …

Nuclear Power Plant

Licence Extension for South Korea’s Shin Hanul NPP does not Mean New Units will be Built

However, the extension of the licence does not mean that construction of the two reactors will go ahead.

Energy Security

Increased Rate of Water Leakage at Fukushima Reactors

A drop in the water levels in the reactor containment vessels of units 1 and 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan has been detected, Tokyo Electric Power C…

China

Chinese Company Contracted to Work on Tianwan 7&8

The two units, with VVER-1200 reactors, are being built by Rosatom, which said work on unit 7 should begin in May 2021, and on unit 8 in March 2022.

Rosatom

Two key Russian Nuclear Institutes to Merge

Rosatom has decided to merge two of Russia’s key nuclear institutes – the AI Leipunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering in Obninsk and Research Inst…

Nuclear Equipment

Russia Starts Making Major Components for Xudabao Units

Russia's Atommash has begun the manufacture of major components for the first of two VVER-1200 reactors to be constructed at the Xudabao site in China's Liaonin…

Nuclear Power Plant

Akkuyu Fully Operational by 2026, Says Project CEO

Rosatom has a 99.2% stake in the project, the cost of which it estimates will be USD20 billion.

Nuclear Power Plant

German, Canadian Reactors Set New World Records

The single-unit Grohnde nuclear power plant in Germany has produced more than 400 terawatt hours of electricity since it started up in 1984 - the only reactor t…

Nuclear Power Plant

Bulgarian Cabinet Approves Plan for New Unit at Kozloduy

The Bulgarian Council of Ministers, at a meeting on 20 January, approved plans presented by the Minister of Energy to construct a seventh unit at the Kozloduy n…

Nuclear Power Plant

Bulgaria’s PM Met with CEO of Kozloduy NPP, Equipment Purchased for Belene Will Be Used for Units 5,6 of Kozloduy

After the old reactors were pulled out of operation, it is very important that we received a license for the Units 5 and 6 of the Kozloduy NPP for another ten y…

Market Analysis

China on Track to Supplant US as Top Nuclear Energy Purveyor

The paper also pointed out that of the 54 reactors under construction in countries around the world, 20 are related to China or Russia, and 13 are designed by C…

Nuclear Policy

US Order Promotes SMRs for Space Exploration and Defence

This includes directives to demonstrate the use of microreactors on military bases and also to ensure a viable US-origin supply of high-assay low-enriched urani…