China’s 40 commercially operating nuclear reactors delivered a total of 193.77 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of power to the grid in the first nine months of the year, up 13.3 percent from a year earlier, an industry group said. In a report published late on Tuesday, the China Nuclear Energy Association said total nuclear power generation …
Producer buying appears to be becoming more urgent as spot uranium hits a two and a half year high. -Producer buying continues -Prices continue to rise -Utilities weighing up the situation By Greg Peel Producers of uranium again moved into the spot market early last week, prompting sellers to back off. Producers are meant to …
Russia offers cooperation in respect of construction of floating nuclear thermal power plants (FNTPP) to Indonesia, Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said on Friday at the meeting of the bilateral intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation. “Cooperation in the sphere of engineering and construction of high-technology vessels and high-speed vessels is of …
France’s EDF reconnected its 1.5 GW Chooz-1 nuclear reactor back to the national electricity grid on Friday, around two weeks after the unit was taken offline due to concerns over water flow thresholds of the river Meuse. Nuclear power plant operator EDF on Sunday said reactor-1 at its Chooz nuclear station ramped up to maximum …
Unit 4 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China’s Jiangsu province has been connected to the electricity grid, bringing global nuclear generating capacity to over 400 GWe for the first time. Tianwan Phase I – units 1 and 2 – was constructed under a 1992 cooperation agreement between China and Russia. First concrete was …
Shikoku Electric Power Co. on Saturday restarted a reactor at the Ikata nuclear power plant in western Japan after a suspension of nearly one year due to a high court order. The restart of the No. 3 unit at the plant in the town of Ikata in Ehime Prefecture, announced by the power company after …
Bulgaria may launch a tender to choose a strategic investor for its Belene nuclear power project by the end of the year if the parliament gives its approval to the plan, Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said on Friday. The Balkan country lifted a six-year ban on a 2,000 megawatt (MW) plant at Belene in June …
A court in Japan on Friday paved the way for Shikoku Electric Power Co to restart its only operable nuclear reactor, rejecting a lawsuit from residents to close the unit. The decision allows the company to restart its Ikata No. 3 reactor on Saturday, after the Hiroshima High Court, in late September, lifted an injunction …
Toshiba Corp (6502.T) is considering liquidating its British nuclear unit NuGen, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Thursday, leaving Britain to seek alternatives for a project that was meant to provide 7 percent of the country’s electricity. The move comes as Toshiba believes talks to sell the unit have dragged on …
The French government will decide on whether or not to build a new generation of EPR reactors between 2021 and 2025, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported on Friday, citing a working document. France’s nuclear industry could be asked to draw an “industrial plan” by mid-2021 that would guarantee future EPR reactors are able to produce …
