After a year-long search, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has announced the selection of Gadsden, Alabama, as the location for a USD232 million plant to manufacture, assemble, test, and inspect the non-radiological modules needed to construct the company’s Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR). Construction of the plant is to begin next year. Factors including site suitability and …
Russia’s Rosatom is building Turkey’s first nuclear power plant in its southern Mersin province, with the first reactor expected to go online next year Turkey is in contact with China regarding the construction of a planned third nuclear power plant and is surveying sites for a fourth, a top ministry official said. Russia’s Rosatom is …
American Centrifuge Operating (ACO), a subsidiary of Centrus Energy Corp, is moving closer to operating an advanced centrifuge cascade in Piketon, OH to produce the nation’s first amount of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)—a crucial material needed to develop and deploy advanced reactors in the United States. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently cleared the facility to start …
Kansai Electric Power Co. on Wednesday informed the Fukui prefectural government of its plan to reactivate the aged No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the Takahama nuclear power plant in the central Japan prefecture. The power supplier aims to reactivate the No. 1 reactor July 28 and the No. 2 reactor Sept. 15. They …
The 214-tonne upper part of the inner containment dome, with a diameter of 36 metres, has been installed in its design position at Tianwan nuclear power plant unit 7, in Jiangsu province in China. The installation of the upper part came a month after the lower tier was lifted into position. The plant uses a double …
Pakistan and China signed a $4.8 billion deal on Tuesday to build a 1,200-megawatt nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said, hailing the investment by a country that Pakistan views as its most dependable ally. Work on the Chashma 5 project would begin immediately, Sharif said on state-run news channel PTV following the signing …
Slovenia’s government will take a decision in principle by 1 August on the JEK2 new nuclear project, Prime Minister Robert Golob has said – meanwhile the operating company said it was considering increasing the proposed capacity of the scheme. During a visit to the Krško nuclear power plant, Golob said: “Slovenia is, and will remain, a …
The CA03 module has been hoisted into place at unit 3 of the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China’s Zhejiang province. Meanwhile, the circular rail that will support the polar crane of unit 3 at the Xudabao plant in Liaoning province has been installed. Together with the CA02 module, the CA03 makes up the in-containment …
1. Browns Ferry is the second-largest nuclear plant in the nation and TVA’s largest single source of carbon-free energy. Its three boiling water reactors produce about 10% of TVA’s total generation capacity. Source: POWER The Atomic Energy Act authorizes the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to issue licenses for commercial power reactors to operate for up …
Westinghouse has signed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract with Kozloduy NPP-Newbuild for the construction of an AP1000 reactor at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant site in Bulgaria. In January, Bulgaria’s parliament asked ministers to negotiate with the US government for a new AP1000 unit at Kozloduy. The vote urged action to be taken …
