Small modular reactor

SMR

Romania's SMR site selection process gets IAEA approval

An International Atomic Energy Agency follow-up mission has concluded that the selection of Doicesti as the site for deployment of small modular reactors compli…

Nuclear Reactor

Further Norwegian Site Identified for SMRs

Norsk Kjernekraft has decided to initiate work on the impact assessment of a plot of land in Øygarden municipality, west of Bergen, to assess the possibi…

Nuclear Reactor

ČEz Plans Order of Czechia's First Small Modular Reactor

The Czech power giant ČEZ plans to select a provider for the country’s first small modular reactor by the end of this year, Czech Television reported. Sm…

Carbon Neutrality

CNL Aims for Carbon-Neutrality of Chalk River Site

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has announced a target of achieving carbon-neutral operations at the Chalk River Laboratories site in Ontario by 2040. It sa…

Nuclear Reactor

Serbian President's Appeal as Country Targets Four SMRs

Serbia is seeking support from other countries on nuclear know-how and financing towards its goal of getting 1200 MW of capacity from small modular reactors, Pr…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Iraq Discusses Nuclear Energy Plans With Iaea

Iraq's plans for small modular reactors and nuclear medicine, as well as its decommissioning progress, were among topics discussed during a visit by Interna…

SMR

Romania’s Nuclearelectrica Sees Preliminary Decision on Smr Plant in 2025

Romania expects to make a preliminary final investment decision next year on whether to build a small modular reactor plant (SMR), which could become Europe&rsq…

SMR

Transatlantic Collaboration on SMR Regulation Expanded

A trilateral memorandum of cooperation has been signed between the British, Canadian and US nuclear regulators to collaborate on technical reviews of advanced r…

SMR

UK-Polish Partnership for SMR Deployment in Poland

Polish industrial group Industria has signed a letter of intent with UK-based zero emissions energy and technology developer Chiltern Vital Group to collaborate…

SMR

Exclusive: Holtec Seeks UK Site for 600 Mln Pound Small Nuclear Reactor Factory

The British arm of U.S. nuclear firm Holtec International will on Friday launch a competition to find a site for a 600 million pound ($767.04 million) factory i…

Nuclear Technology

British Company Pioneers New Nuclear Welding Technique

Sheffield Forgemasters has completed weld-assembly of a full-sized small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear vessel demonstrator assembly using Local Electron-Beam We…

Nuclear Reactor

Holtec Unveils Hybrid Nuclear-Solar Power Plant Design

Holtec International has announced a new power plant design which combines the benefits of nuclear with those of solar. The Combined Nuclear/Solar Plant (CNSP) …

SMR

Saskpower-GEH Agreement to Advance SMR Development

Canadian Utility SaskPower and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) have signed an agreement to advance small modular reactor (SMR) development in Saskatchewan. In J…

Nuclear Reactor

Funding to Support UK Deployment of BWRX-300

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has been awarded a GBP33.6 million (USD42.7 million) grant to support it in developing its BWRX-300 small modular reactor in the…

SMR

SMR Completes Canadian Design Review Milestones

Canadian regulators have concluded that there are no fundamental barriers to licensing the Xe-100 small modular reactor, X-Energy Reactor Company has announced.…