FILE PHOTO: European Union leaders summit in Brussels The Slovak government is considering building another nuclear power unit with capacity of up to 1.2 gigawatts (GW), and could reach a decision at a meeting on Wednesday, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Monday. The decision would be a basis for concrete steps to prepare the …
Russian supplies of enriched uranium to be barred in 90 days Move could boost costs for US nuclear plants, risk retaliation President Joe Biden on Monday signed legislation banning the import of Russian enriched uranium, starting a 90-day countdown until limits on shipments of the reactor fuel take effect. Biden’s signature also unlocks some $2.7 …
NexGen Energy Ltd has said its newly announced strategic purchase of 2.7 million pounds U3O8 (1039 tU), together with a recent share placement, “will significantly assist the company in funding the anticipated capital needs to develop the Rook I Project” in Canada. Denison Mines Corp intends to use its physical uranium investment to support future …
Billionaire Bill Gates plans to visit Kemmerer next month for the groundbreaking ceremony of TerraPower’s nuclear reactor project, the company’s president said Wednesday. Gates has spent more than $1 billion of his own money on the project so far. Billionaire Bill Gates, who is among the richest people in the world, plans to visit Kemmerer …
France’s nuclear regulator has authorised the commissioning of the Flamanville EPR reactor, which has a summer 2024 target for connection to the grid. The authorisation from the Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN) means EDF can now load nuclear fuel into the reactor and carry out start-up tests and then operation of the reactor. The decision follows a …
Data center developers in Northern Virginia are asking utility Dominion Energy Inc. for as much power as several nuclear reactors can generate, in the latest sign of how artificial intelligence is helping drive up electricity demand. Dominion regularly fields requests from developers whose planned data center campuses need as much as “several gigawatts” of electricity, …
US company Holtec International has established a wholly-owned subsidiary aiming to “energise the presently placid business sector of modification and maintenance”, with the initial project being the restart of the Palisades plant. Holtec Maintenance & Modification International (HMI) is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is being headed by Christopher Bakken. In its statement announcing the …
The inner containment dome has been installed at unit 5 of the Lufeng nuclear power plant in China’s Guangdong province. It is the first of two HPR1000 (Hualong One) under construction at the site, where four CAP1000s are also planned. The steel dome – measuring 45 metres in diameter and almost 14 metres in height, …
A political magazine alleged that the Economy Ministry hid expert advice supporting the extension of Germany’s remaining nuclear power plants. Two ministers defended their decision to a parliamentary committee. Two German ministers on Friday defended their handling of the extension of Germany‘s three remaining nuclear power stations during the 2022-23 energy crisis, after a media report alleged the process was …
The United Arab Emirates will tender shortly for the construction of a new nuclear power plant that would double the number of the small Gulf state’s nuclear reactors, three sources familiar with the matter said. The UAE, a U.S. security partner, became the first Arab state to operate a nuclear power plant when in 2021 …
