For the fourth day in a row, the Zaporizhzhia NPP and the Enerhodar city remain under the control of Russian military units. Two power units of Zaporizhzhia NPP are in operation and are connected to the grid, one unit is in outage, the others are in the shutdown mode. Operational personnel monitor the state of …
Unit 3 of the Karachi nuclear power plant in Pakistan was successfully connected to the gird on March 4, laying a solid foundation for its commercial operation. Karachi unit 3 is a Hualong One overseas demonstration project and the fourth Hualong One unit around the globe. Its connection to the grid means that all four Hualong …
Latvia should build a nuclear power plant together with Estonia, Latvian Minister of Defense Artis Pabriks (Development/For) said on Twitter. In the future, Latvia will have to combine three energy resources – wind and solar power, as well as energy produced at a nuclear power plant, plus limited gas supplies, Pabriks points out. He believes that the nuclear power plant …
Concerns remain about the Natrium nuclear power plant’s reliance on a Russian enrichment facility for fuel. A measure to clarify state and federal regulatory roles regarding TerraPower’s planned Natrium nuclear power plant passed a Senate committee Monday with no opposing votes. But members of the public highlighted several issues that remain largely unresolved in the …
Eighteen bipartisan U.S. Senators are backing a bill that would direct the president to declare a national emergency and prohibit imports of Russian energy commodities, including crude oil, petroleum products, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and coal. While the measure does not include Russian uranium, a senior Department of Energy official said addressing U.S. reliance on …
Belgium should keep an open mind about extending the life-span of its remaining nuclear power plants, the country’s Green energy minister said on Monday, in a shift of position prompted by the conflict in Ukraine. After months of debate, Belgium’s seven-party coalition government agreed a compromise in December that the country’s last nuclear power plant …
Tesla CEO Elon Musk called for Europe to increase its nuclear energy production by restarting dormant nuclear power stations on Monday, as Western government grapple with how they will potentially replace Russian energy exports in the event of a sweeping embargo on the country’s oil. “Hopefully, it is now extremely obvious that Europe should restart …
Ural Electrochemical Integrated Plant Director General Alexander Belousov stands next to gas centrifuges for uranium isotope separation in a separation workshop of the plant, in Novouralsk, about 40 miles northwest of Yekaterinburg, Russia. Advanced nuclear reactors like the one that TerraPower wants to build in Kemmerer require a type of enriched uranium that’s currently only …
Measures implemented this year could bring down gas imports from Russia by over one-third, with additional temporary options to deepen these cuts to well over half while still lowering emissions. Europe’s reliance on imported natural gas from Russia has again been thrown into sharp relief by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. In 2021, …
Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today that Russian forces had taken control of the site of the country’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), but that the nuclear power plant continued to be operated by its regular staff and there had been no release of radioactive material, Director General Rafael Mario Grossi said. …
