A site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee has been selected as the site for the USA’s first commercial high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)-based fuel fabrication facility. Construction of the TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility, or TF3, is to begin this year, with commissioning and start-up as soon as 2025. Xe-100 developer X-energy announced on 4 April that its …
Changes to nuclear funding model and desire for greater energy security behind big bet on nuclear Ministers are increasingly confident of being able to fund a set of new nuclear power stations at a fraction of previous costs as the Government prepares to make nuclear power the centre point of its energy strategy this week. …
Unit 3 of the Karachi nuclear power plant in Pakistan has reached full power operation for the first time on March 31. It is now a step closer toward the goal of Hualong One overseas demonstration project being put into commercial operation. Karachi unit 3 is the world’s fourth Hualong One unit and the second …
A company backed by investor in Elon Musk’s businesses is the latest to say that it wants to build a nuclear power plant in Wales. Last Energy is now the third company that wants to build nuclear power plants in Wales, having settled on a not yet named site within the country. They would join …
Britain could build up to seven new nuclear power stations as part of a radical expansion of homegrown energy following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told The Sunday Telegraph. “There is a world where we have six or seven sites in the UK” by 2050, Kwarteng told the newspaper. The Sunday Telegraph …
ČEZ has set aside an area at the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant as a potential location for the Czech Republic’s first small modular reactor (SMR). It says the site will not impact on plans to build two more large-scale units. ČEZ signed a Memorandum of Understanding on SMRs with NuScale in September 2019 and one …
Four provinces are working together to advance small modular reactors in Canada through an inter-provincial Memorandum of Understanding. Small modular reactors are nuclear reactors that are significantly smaller and more flexible than conventional nuclear reactors. (Gary Solilak/CBC) Provinces say Canada could become global exporter of reactor technology Four provincial governments are pushing ahead with a plan …
In recent weeks, some of Silicon Valley’s most famous technologists have hailed a historically polarizing energy source — nuclear power — as a solution to both cutting carbon emissions and weaning the world off now-controversial Russian gas. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that nuclear is “critical” to national security, while the risk of radiation is overplayed. …
After recently completing planned maintenance activities, Bruce Power’s Unit 1 is now capable of producing even more reliable, carbon-free electricity for the families and businesses of Ontario. Unit 1’s maximum net capability has been raised by 6 Megawatts (MW) to 821 MW, and the unit is now capable of powering about 820,000 Ontario homes and …
On Monday, Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed legislation that amends the state’s nuclear power and storage regulations into law. House Enrolled Act 59 includes a variety of provisions related to the production of nuclear energy and storage of nuclear waste as the state works to establish a regulatory framework in anticipation of TerraPower’s planned construction of a …
