The Palisades Nuclear Generating Station previously supplied 5 percent of Michigan’s electricity. Just months after it was supposedly shut down for good, a Michigan nuclear power plant could come roaring back to life with help from the very company charged with its demolition. According to an AP report published on Wednesday, Holtec Decommissioning International hopes to resurrect the 800 megawatt …
Vogtle Electric Generating Plants with the original units 1 & 2 in the background, and units 3 & 4 expansion in the foreground U.S. energy company Southern Co on Thursday stuck with the previously announced timing and cost estimates for its Georgia Power utility’s share of two nuclear reactors under construction in Georgia. The Vogtle …
Kansai Electric Power has asked Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) for permission to extend the lifespan of units 3 and 4 at its Takahama nuclear power plant by 20 years. Under regulations which came into force in July 2013, Japanese reactors have a nominal operating period of 40 years. One extension to this – limited …
First concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 4 at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China’s Shandong province. It marks the official start of construction of the second of two CAP1000 pressurised water reactors planned as Phase II of the plant. The pouring of concrete began on 22 April and was …
Energoatom President Petro Kotin at the signing ceremony (Image: Energoatom) Up to 20 Holtec SMR-160 plants will be built in Ukraine under a cooperation agreement signed between Holtec International and Ukrainian national nuclear operator Energoatom. The agreement calls for the first plant to begin supplying power by March 2029. The agreement was signed on 21 …
How a completed plant could look (Image: Rosatom/Telegram) Nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor has granted a licence to build the country’s first land-based small modular reactor (SMR), in the Republic of Sakha (also known as Yakutia) in Russia’s Arctic north. Rosatom’s SMR is a water-cooled RITM-200N reactor that has been adapted from the RITM-200 series used to …
After touring the as-yet uncompleted fourth reactor at Plant Vogtle, U.S. Rep. Rick Allen, R-Augusta and U.S. House Energy, Climate and Grid Security Subcommittee Chair Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-South Carolina, had a message — the United States needs more Vogtles. “I’ll go back to Washington with Rick and we’ll share with our colleagues on Energy …
The nuclear market will be able to respond as it transitions away from the oversupply of recent years – but decisions to increase capacity in the front-end of the fuel cycle will need to be taken soon, according to speakers at World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2023 (WNFC 2023). Mandeep Ludu, head of WMC Energy’s Nuclear Fuel Group, …
Funding offers of $93m have been received to support extended operation of unit 1 of Argentina’s Atucha NPP by 20-25 years. The funds will also help to finance construction of a second dry storage facility for used fuel at plant site. Argentina’s nuclear utility Nucleoelectrica Argentina SA (NA-SA) said the second tranche of the NASA …
Test production has been completed at the Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) EPR in Finland and the plant has now started regular electricity production, operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) has announced. TVO said the reactor will soon be declared to be in commercial operation. OL3 attained first criticality on 21 December 2021 and was connected to the …
