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Site agreed for Oklo modular reactor
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 by US-based Oklo and the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative (SODI) have signed an agreement over the land necessary to host two of Oklo’s ‘Aurora’ design fast neutron...

Location selected for advanced SMR nuclear project
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 by Dow and X-Energy Reactor Company have announced that Dow has selected its UCC1 Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas for its proposed advanced small modular reactor...

New study reports strong public support for nuclear
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 by A new report published on 11 May has found that there is widespread public support for using advanced nuclear energy technologies for the generation of electricity. Based on a survey...

Olkiluoto 3 EPR finally goes commercial
Tuesday, May 09, 2023 by Fourteen years behind schedule, commercial operation of the 1600 MW Olkiluoto EPR finally got under way on 1 May, the owner/operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) having submitted...

Panic evacuation from towns near the Zaporizhzhia NPP
Tuesday, May 09, 2023 by The BBC reports that a ‘mad panic’ has ensued as Russia attempts to evacuate the inhabitants of 18 towns and settlements near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The information...

Westinghouse unveils AP300 small modular reactor
Tuesday, May 09, 2023 by Westinghouse Electric Company on 4 May launched its AP300 small nuclear reactor. The Westinghouse design is scaled from its AP1000 reactor and is based on what the company calls...

EDF to boost NMR development
Tuesday, May 02, 2023 by EDF has created a new subsidiary, NUWARD, to boost the development of its small modular reactor, which is now entering the basic design phase.

Hungary agrees deal for Russian reactors
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 by According to a report in the Budapest Business Journal (BBJ) via Globaldata, Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó and Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev struck a deal on 11 April to...

Fluor signs laser fusion MOU
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 by Fluor Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with Longview Fusion Energy Systems to serve as its engineering and construction partner in designing and planning laser...

Germany's nuclear power era comes to an end
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 by The age of nuclear power in Germany ended on Saturday 15 April after more than 60 years with the decommissioning of the country’s three remaining reactors, RWE Emsland, EnBW Unit...

Zaporizhzhya is ‘living on borrowed time…’– IAEA
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 by The dependence of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) on a single still functioning power line for the external electricity it needs poses a major risk to nuclear safety...

Vogtle unit 3 connects to the grid
Thursday, April 13, 2023 by US Georgia Power reports that unit 3 of the Vogtle NPP, the first new nuclear unit to be built in the USA in more than three decades, has been successfully synchronised and connected...

Germany ‘will complete nuclear phase-out as planned’
Tuesday, April 04, 2023 by The era of nuclear power in Germany will end on 15 April as planned, the country’s environment minister has said. His remarks are quoted in a report by the online agency Clean Energy Wire.

Possible Zaporizhzhia counter-offensive heighten fears of disaster
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 by Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, met on Monday 27 March with president Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to discuss what he described,...

UK Space Agency backs R-R nuclear power
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 by Rolls-Royce has secured funding from UK Space Agency, which is backing research by R-R into how nuclear power could be used to support a future Moon base for astronauts.

Vogtle Unit 3 NPP reaches initial criticality
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 by On 6 March Georgia Power announced that the 1117 MW Unit 3 of its Vogtle nuclear power plant has safely reached initial criticality during the start-up testing sequence,...

One year on – IAEA report on nuclear safety in Ukraine
Tuesday, March 07, 2023 by One year on, the International Atomic Energy Agency has issued a report, ‘Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards in Ukraine’, covering the period between February 2022 and February...

Demonstration of ‘clean’ plasma boosts ITER fusion
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 by Scientists from EUROfusion, including researchers from the UK (UKAEA), Germany (IPP) and Belgium (ERM-KMS) and from ITER, working at the fusion device Joint European Torus (JET),...

UKAEA awards £3.1m in contracts to UK’s fusion industry
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 by Eighteen organisations have secured contracts with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to demonstrate how their innovative technologies and proposed solutions can help...