Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi announced that the country will begin pouring concrete in the second unit of Bushehr nuclear power plant late in October. “Nearly 3 weeks later, the concrete-casting phase of the unit 2 (of Bushehr power plant) will be visited in a ceremony to be attended …
Construction licences have been issued for units 1 and 2 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China’s Fujian province. The units were originally planned to be based on Westinghouse’s AP1000 design, but will now feature domestically-designed Hualong One reactors. China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the construction licences on 9 October to CNNC-Guodian …
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) is stepping up efforts to win a nuclear power plant project in the Czech Republic. KHNP announced on Oct. 10 that it held a business round table with the Trebic Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic on Sept. 24 (local time). At the meeting, Kim Sang-don, head …
Nuclear energy is, for now, playing a minuscule role in India’s energy story, contributing to about 2 percent of the country’s electricity needs. But nuclear power generation in India is a story that is set to grow. India is looking at adding another 5.4 GW to the nuclear power plants in the next decade, adding …
Uzbekistan’s preparations to build its first nuclear power plant are gathering pace with a sense of making up for lost time. The Central Asian country became a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as long ago as 1994, has 50 years of experience in nuclear research and is the world’s fifth biggest producer …
The final major module for construction of the Vogtle 3 & 4 units has arrived onsite, meaning all 1,485 major modules required to complete construction have now been manufactured and safely delivered. The arrival of the final major module marks the completion of sourcing construction modules from 25 suppliers and vendors from around the globe. …
Several new nuclear plants around the world marked important milestones over the summer. Among notable projects are those that began second units of new third-generation reactor designs—such as the EPR, APR1400, and ACPR-1000—and the Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s first floating nuclear plant. World’s Second EPR Begins Operation. Unit 2 at the Taishan nuclear power plant in …
Bulgaria’s Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRA) on Tuesday granted an extension of the operational license of Unit 6 of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) until 2029. The 1,000-megawatt (MW) Unit 6, which is one of the country’s two operational units, was connected to the grid in 1991 with a projected 30-year lifespan. “Today is a …
The second group of 38 multinational Senior Reactor Operators, SROs, and Reactor Operators, ROs, of the Nawah Energy Company, have been officially certified by the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation, FANR, the UAE’s independent nuclear regulator. The total number of qualified operators has now reached 53, well above the 32 required to operate Unit 1 …
For the past 45 years, Three Mile Island Generating Station Unit 1 has been safely and reliably powering more than 830,000 homes and businesses with carbon-free energy. That legacy ended at noon today when operators took the TMI Unit 1 reactor offline for the final time, setting a site record of running 709 continuous days, …