India has also promised the US and France that its company will get a chance to set up six nuclear power plants in India. But negotiations are still going on with both the countries. India and Russia are expected to formally ink a contract for six additional nuclear power plants next month. A contract will …
News that Kazakhstan intends to extend production reductions through 2021 sparked a return to buying interest in both the spot and term uranium markets last week. -Kazatomprom extends production cuts -Market interest returns after a dead August to date -No new Japanese restarts in 2019 “Kazatomprom does not expect to return to full production until …
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is considering a plan to decommission some of the No. 1 to No. 5 reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in central Japan, on condition that its newer No. 6 and No. 7 reactors are allowed to resume operations, President Tomoaki Kobayakawa said Monday. Kobayakawa unveiled the plan …
None of the six Japanese nuclear reactors that have been cleared to restart by regulators are expected to become operational this year because of local opposition and delayed safety measures, in a setback to the nation’s energy policy. In addition, four of the nine nuclear reactors restarted under tougher safety standards put in place after the …
Five companies have expressed interest in Bulgaria’s invitation for strategic investment in the construction of Belene nuclear power plant on the Danube River near the Romanian border. According to national newspaper 24 Chasa, China National Nuclear Corporation, Framatome, General Electric, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power and Rosatom have all applied for the selection process. The …
Rosenergoatom is expected to receive about RUB280 billion (USD4 billion) less in state funding for the construction of new nuclear reactors in Russia owing to the postponement of its fast neutron reactor programme, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported last week, citing anonymous sources. Rosenergoatom is the nuclear power plant operator subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation …
Work on Turkey’s first nuclear power plant in the southern coastal area of Akkuyu is being carried out without proper inspections and could lead to disastrous consequences, local geological engineering association head Erkan Demir told pro-Kurdish daily Yeni Yaşam. Reports on the Akkuyu plant’s construction have raised serious fears since it began in 2018, with …
Tehran continues cooperating with Russia, China and Europe within the nuclear deal framework, according to the official Construction of the second and the third power units of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is implemented at a quick pace and even ahead of schedule, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi …
US turbine manufacturer General Electric has applied to participate in the construction of the Belene Nuclear Power Plant, Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said. By August 19, which is the deadline for receiving offers, she expects an offer from Russia’s Rosatom, as well, BNR reported. One cannot speak of a Russian project because the site and the …
The second EPR reactor at the Taishan nuclear power plant in China’s Guangdong province has reached full generating capacity for the first time, Framatome has announced. Taishan 2 is expected to enter commercial operation later this year. The Taishan project – 140 kilometres west of Hong Kong – is owned by the Guangdong Taishan Nuclear …
