Nuclear heating project put into operation in South China

Southern China’s first nuclear heating phase-one demonstration project was put into operation on December 3 to provide winter heating service to about 460,000 square meters of residential property and benefit nearly 4,000 people in Haiyan county of Zhejiang province. Using residual thermal power from the Qinshan Nuclear Power plant of the China National Nuclear Corporation …

T.GLO Announces Closing of C$35.0 Million Bought Deal Private Placement

Global Atomic Corporation (“Global Atomic” or the “Company”) (TSX: GLO, OTCQX: GLATF, FRANKFURT: G12) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced “bought deal” private placement (the “Offering”) for gross proceeds of C$35.0 million. Due to significant investor demand, the Offering was upsized from its original gross proceeds of C$25.0 million. Under …

Chair of Nuclear Regulatory Commission touts safety of small reactors like the one planned for Eielson

The chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said he’s intrigued by the kind of small nuclear power plant the military wants to install at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks. “The safety features that they have …(are) kind of passive safety features, right?” Chairman Christopher Hanson said at a U.S. Senate hearing last week. “It doesn’t …

South Korea’s offer to rehabilitate Bataan Nuclear Power Plant still stands, says PNRI exec

The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is seen during a tour around the BNPP compound in Morong town, Bataan province.(Reuters file) The offer of South Korea to rehabilitate the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) still stands, the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PNRI) said Monday, Dec. 6. DOST-PNRI …

How French nuclear interests weighed on Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition talks

The new German government’s coalition treaty avoided references to nuclear energy and the EU’s green finance taxonomy in order to preserve Franco-German relations, a senior Green negotiator in Berlin told EURACTIV. As Germany was in the midst of negotiating its first-ever three-way government, the two biggest parties in the new “traffic light” coalition, the SPD …

Support for Hanhikivi 1 project at an all-time high – 77.4% of Pyhäjoki residents support the nuclear power plant

Fennovoima’s opinion poll results show that support for the Hanhikivi 1 project has reached a new record. The project has a historically high 74 percent support in the plant site location Pyhäjoki and its surrounding municipalities. The Hanhikivi 1 project has received the highest score in its history in the latest opinion poll. According to …

Diablo Canyon is closing soon. Here’s why the Biden administration wants it open

It’s California’s last nuclear plant, destined to be mothballed in four years amid concerns that its closure could leave a gaping hole in the state’s power supply. Now the Biden administration is pushing the idea that PG&E’s Diablo Canyon power plant should stay open, after all. U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, in an interview this …