Reactors

Market Analysis

World Needs Large and Small Reactors, Association Says

World Nuclear Association has called on policymakers to accelerate the development and commercialisation of small modular reactors (SMRs) as well as fast-tracki…

Nuclear Power Plant

Kansai Completes Upgrade Work at Two Reactors

Safety improvement work to enable Mihama unit 3 and Takahama unit 1 - both in Japan's Fukui Prefecture - to operate for an additional 20 years, to 60 years

Nuclear Power Plant

Rolls-Royce to Supply Pressure Rransmitters for China's Zhangzhou 1&2

Rolls-Royce has been awarded a multi-million euros contract by CNNC to provide Bibloc® pressure transmitters for Zhangzhou1&2, two new Hualong One reactors und…

Nuclear Power Plant

Six Korean Reactors Shut Down Due to Salinity During Recent Typhoons

The recent shutdown of six nuclear reactors at South Korea’s Kori and Wolsong nuclear power plants during the typhoons Maysak and Haishen resulted from the fai…

Nuclear Power Plant

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…

Nuclear Technology

Modular Micro-Reactors – The Future of Nuclear Energy?

​In this video Prof. Ruzic explains what modular micro-reactors are, and why they may be the future of nuclear power.

Nuclear Power Plant

Exelon Announces Early Shutdown of Four Illinois Reactors

US utility Exelon Generation announced today both the two-unit Byron and Dresden nuclear power plants will be retired in 2021 as "the result of market rules tha…

Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear Generation in 2019 Close to Record High

Nuclear reactors generated a total 2657 TWh of electricity in 2019, up from 2563 TWh in 2018.

Nuclear Fuel

Ostrovets Plant Set for Fuel Loading

It consists of two VVER-1200 reactors that are scheduled for commissioning this year and next.

Micro Reactor

USNC, Korean Companies to Develop Micro Modular Reactors

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation of the USA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Korea's Hyundai Engineering and the Korea Atomic Energy Research I…

Nuclear Technology

IAEA, GIF Call for Faster Deployment of Next Generation reactors

The International Atomic Energy Agency and the Generation IV International Forum have called for greater efforts to support the early deployment of innovative n…

Nuclear Power Plant

China to Build Six to Eight New Reactors a Year between 2020 and 2025

Nuclear power will play a more significant role in China's energy mix and will gradually replace fossil fuels, according to a blue book released by the China Nu…

Micro Reactor

GE Hitachi Receives Patent for Very Simplified Boiling Water Reactors

US-based GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas has been assigned a patent developed by three co-inventors for "very simplified boiling water reactors for commercia…

Micro Reactor

Russia Begins Preparatory Work for Four New Reactors

The operator subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, announced today that preparatory work for the construction of four new reactors has commen…

Nuclear Fuel

Rosatom Starts Life Tests of Third-Generation VVER-440 Nuclear Fuel

OKB Gidropress research and experiment facility, an enterprise of Rosatom machinery division Atomenergomash, has started life tests of a mock-up of the third-ge…