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Energoatom staff banned from ZNPP
Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency travels to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) this week to discuss and assess...
Safety concerns persist at ZNPP – IAEA Update
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) lost its immediate back-up 750 kV power supply to the reactor units for several hours during the week of 15 January. This was the...
Hinkley Point C may be delayed until 2031
A review of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power project in the UK has been finalised and has led to a re-evaluation of the schedule and costs. The aim of the project is to bring Unit 1...
CHF 20 million raised to further develop subcritical nuclear
Transmutex SA, a nuclear engineering company based in Geneva, has announced a new round of financing amounting to USD 23.2 million to further develop its solution for what it believes...
GE Hitachi awarded nuclear design funding
GE Vernova’s nuclear business, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, was on 25 January awarded a £33.6 m Future Nuclear Enabling Fund grant from the UK’s Department for Energy Security & Net...
ZNPP safety inspections still being hindered
International Atomic Energy Agency experts at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) have not yet been given access to the reactor halls of units 1, 2 and 6, hindering...
Biggest expansion of UK nuclear power for 70 years
On 11 January the UK government launched its plans for the biggest expansion of nuclear power for 70 years, including the prospect of a new power station on the same scale as Hinkley...
JET delivers its final plasma pulse
Some 40-and-a-half years after delivering its first plasma pulse on 25 June, 1983, the Joint European Torus (JET) located at Culham, near Oxford, UK, delivered its final pulse, number...
UK invests in high-tech nuclear fuel HALEU
The UK will become the first country in Europe to launch a high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) nuclear fuel programme, strengthening supply for new nuclear projects. The aim is...
China’s world-first pebble bed facility goes commercial
Following a 168 hour demonstration run, China’s HTR-PM (high temperature gas cooled pebble bed module) demo facility at the Shidaowan site in Shandong Province has entered...
ENEC signs MoU with MoltexFLEX
Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with British advanced nuclear technology developer MoltexFLEX in a move that marks a significant...
Significant declarations at COP28
A historic Ministerial Declaration signed on 2 December at the COP28 UN climate change conference in Dubai by more than twenty countries has set a clear goal of tripling global...
Investors file lawsuit against NuScale after SMR cancellation
A group of investors has filed a lawsuit against Portland-based US company NuScale following the cancellation of its Small Modular Reactor (SMR) project. The complaint, filed in a...
Saskatchewan microreactor receives $80 m funding
Saskatchewan Research Council has received $80 million in government funding to operate the first eVinci ‘microreactor’ in Canada. Westinghouse and SRC signed an MOU last year to...
Mott MacDonald to explore UK nuclear prospects with KEPCO
Mott MacDonald has signed an MOU with KEPCO Engineering & Construction Company. The two companies have agreed to work together to explore the potential for constructing a...
ULC-Energy, Topsoe and Rolls-Royce SMR to co-operate on H2 production
ULC-Energy has signed an agreement with Topsoe and Rolls-Royce SMR to jointly investigate the production of hydrogen using Topsoe’s solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) technology...
Austin and CPS oppose Constellation NPP purchase
Constellation has completed its acquisition of NRG Energy’s 44% ownership stake in the South Texas Project Electric Generating Station, a 2645 MW nuclear power plant located 90 miles...
Russians ‘likely targeted Khmelnytsky nuclear plant’
The likely target of a Russian drone attack in western Ukraine was the Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant, says Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky. According to a BBC...
IAEA Update 191 – attacks on two nuclear plants, but little damage
International Atomic Energy Agency experts have assessed the damage caused by powerful explosions near Ukraine’s Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant (KhNPP), observing 26 broken windows...
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