Safer reactors designed in the U.S. and Europe make their power grid debuts in China Nine years after construction began at China’s Sanmen nuclear power plant, the world’s first AP1000 unit has connected to the grid. Call it the world’s slowest photo finish. After several decades of engineering, construction flaws and delays, and cost overruns—a …
The U.K. government earmarked 200 million pounds ($262 million) to smooth the way for the next nuclear power plants just two days after rejected the case for an experimental project that would generate power from the tides. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said its Nuclear Sector Deal will fund technology and skills …
NUCLEAR power could return to Trawsfynydd under a new £40 million scheme to build ‘mini’ atomic power plants in the UK. The UK Government’s Business and Energy Secretary, Greg Clark, is set to announce £200m of funding for the nuclear industry at Trawsfynydd later today with an additional £40m going to support the design of …
ANKARA, June 28 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussed speeding up construction of a nuclear power plant in the Black Sea province of Sinop in a telephone call on Thursday, a Turkish presidential source said. Ankara signed an agreement in 2013 with a Japanese-French consortium to build the …
An agreement has been signed, for construction of 6 EPR type nuclear reactors at Maharashtra’s Jaitapur, between French state-run power utility EDF and American conglomerate General Electric (GE), the companies said in a joint announcement on 26 June. The EPR is a third generation pressurised water reactor (PWR) design whose earlier vrsions are in use …
Japan saw the biggest year-on-year increase in nuclear energy consumption last year with 64.9 percent, according to BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy 2018 report. The Far East country consumed 29.1 terawatt hours (TWh) of nuclear energy in 2017, accounting for about 1.1 percent of the world’s total nuclear energy consumption, the report said. The …
Turkey’s president said June 18 that the country will build a third nuclear power plant. During a live question-and-answer social media broadcast with Turkish youths, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey would build its own nuclear power plant after the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, to be built by Russia. “Akkuyu will meet 10 percent of our energy needs,” he said, …
Hitachi continues to search for ways to share the burdens of building a British nuclear power plant and now is sounding out the Development Bank of Japan and several Japanese power companies about taking stakes in the project, a high hurdle as many are still struggling with the heavy financial fallout from the 2011 meltdown at Fukushima. …
A reactor at the trouble-hit Genkai nuclear power station in Saga Prefecture was restarted Saturday for the first time in more than 6½ years despite lingering safety concerns. The No. 4 unit at the Genkai plant is Kyushu Electric Power Co.’s fourth, and the nation’s ninth, to go back online since stricter safety rules were …
South Korea’s nuclear safety agency on Monday approved the restart of a nuclear power plant that was shut down five months ago. The Nuclear Safety and Security Commission made the decision after completing planned maintenance of the Shin-Kori No. 3 reactor near the southern port city of Busan, said Lee Enu-hong, an official of the …
