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Zaporizhzhya is ‘living on borrowed time…’– IAEA
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
Eighteen organisations have secured contracts with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to demonstrate how their innovative technologies and proposed solutions can help...
Reduction in Ukrainian nuclear output – IAEA Update 146
Director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi held talks with senior Russian officials in Moscow last week as part of his continuing efforts to...
Poland’s first commercial NPP may be operational by 2036
Representatives of Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), ZE PAK, and South Korea's KHNP, which are all entities involved in the Pątnów nuclear power plant project, met on 25 January...
IAEA upgrades its Ukraine presence
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Update 143, director general Rafael Grossi updated president Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on 19 January about the expanding...
‘Vibrations’ delay start up of Vogtle 3 NPP
Georgia Power has delayed the start up of Vogtle Unit 3, the only nuclear unit presently under construction in the USA, after detecting vibrations related to cooling system piping,...
Jacobs to plan dismantling of Soviet-era nuclear reactors
A consortium comprising Westinghouse Electric Spain, Jacobs, and the Lithuanian Energy Institute has been selected to plan dismantling and waste management at the Ignalina Nuclear...
Ukraine still suffering infrastructure strikes
On 29 December Russia launched what appeared to be one of its biggest strikes to date on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, pummeling Kyiv and other cities and towns. Several...
Ultra Safe Nuclear and Portland to collaborate on MMR
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, a prominent US-based company in the deployment of fourth-generation gas-cooled micro-reactors, and Portland Holdings Investco (Portland), a privately...
Plans to build the world’s first laser fusion plant
Following the recent announcement of fusion energy breakeven at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence in California, Longview Fusion Energy Systems has announced plans to...
Fusion ignition breakthrough achieved at NIF
The US Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration announced on 13 December the achievement of fusion ignition at the Laurence Livermore National Laboratory,...
Assystem to support new nuclear in Kazakhstan
Project management company Assystem has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Almasadam Satkaliev, CEO of Samruk-Kazyna, The National Welfare Fund of Kazakhstan. MOU outlines...
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