Winter prices almost close the difference with German power Signals of improved energy security after volatile period A steep drop in French electricity prices is signaling increasing confidence that Europe’s biggest fleet of nuclear reactors will be able to operate reliably through the winter. French power for the first quarter of next year traded at …
China has 21 nuclear reactors under construction which will have a capacity for generating 21.61 gigawatts of electricity, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. That is more than two and a half times more nuclear reactors under construction than any other country. China’s drive to build nuclear energy is twofold: It has a massive …
The reactor at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP) had started commercial operations on June 30 but was operating at 90 per cent of its capacity till now. India’s first indigenously developed 700 MW nuclear power plant in Gujarat’s Kakrapar has started operations at full capacity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday. The reactor …
At the beginning of September, Vattenfall’s CEO Anna Borg brings parts of the company’s Group Management to Canada to visit developers of nuclear power technology, power companies and authorities. It is the first in a series of visits to leading nuclear power countries, with the aim of deepening knowledge ahead of a possible new construction …
The first safety-related concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of the unit 6 HPR1000 (Hualong One) at the Lufeng nuclear power plant in China’s Guangdong province. It is the second HPR1000 under construction at the site, where four CAP1000s are also planned. In a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, China General …
There’s an atomic price chasm between Beijing and Washington, giving China a green advantage and leaving the US trailing in its efforts to clean up the power grid. When it comes to the speed and cost of nuclear power, the gap between the US and China is turning into a chasm. Take a single Monday. …
Russia’s Rosatom is already building Turkey’s first nuclear plants in the southern province of Mersin Turkey is in talks with Russia and South Korea for the construction of a nuclear plant in the northern province of Sinop, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Monday. Russia’s Rosatom is already building Turkey’s first nuclear plants in the …
Saudi Arabia is considering a Chinese bid to build it a nuclear power plant, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, a decision that could derail U.S. plans in the kingdom. State-owned China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) has bid to build a nuclear plant in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, near the border with Qatar and …
The approval will help in extending the life of the Monticello nuclear power plant by ten more years. cel Energy has secured clearance from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) in the US to extend the operation of its 671MW Monticello nuclear power plant through to 2040. With the approval, the company can expand the storage of spent …
Swedish nuclear technical services provider Studsvik has signed a memorandum of understanding with small modular reactor (SMR) project development company Kärnfull Next, which is investigating the possibility of constructing and operating SMRs on the Studsvik industrial site near Nyköping on Sweden’s east coast. Kärnfull Next said the feasibility study began in May, and preliminary results …