Southeast Asia’s only nuclear power plant, completed four decades ago in Bataan, about 40 miles from the Philippine capital Manila, was built in the 1970s but left idle due to safety concerns and corruption. It has never produced a single watt of energy. Now the Philippines and other countries in fast-growing Southeast Asia are looking …
Thammasat lecturer says SMRs critical for country to achieve net zero emissions Development of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) is essential to achieve the country’s goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2065, says Praipol Khumsap, an economics lecturer at Thammasat University and an independent energy scholar. He spoke recently to Krungthep Turakij about the …
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in Kudankulam, India, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. India, the world’s most-populous nation, has signaled that it will reduce its dependence on the fossil fuel, but growing energy needs complicate the equation. Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg Photo by Prashanth Vishwanathan /Bloomberg India’s government will amend its nuclear laws to draw private capital …
Fossil fuel-dependent Indonesia plans to build nuclear power plants with the capacity of about 4 gigawatts (GW) in a bid for cleaner energy, an adviser to President Prabowo Subianto said on Friday. Indonesia’s current installed power capacity is more than 90 GW, with more than half of that powered by coal and less than 15% by …
The Krsko nuclear power plant (NEK). Source: NEK Slovenia’s state-run group Gen-Energija said on Thursday that France’s EDF and U.S.-based Westinghouse are in a race to build a second unit at the Krsko nuclear power plant (NPP), after a third potential candidate, Korea Hydro Nuclear Power (KHNP), decided not to take part in the contest. …
Not according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which dropped it from its critical minerals list in 2022 on the grounds it didn’t qualify because it was a “fuel mineral”, opens new tab. U.S. President Donald Trump wants it to think again. One of Trump’s many “Unleashing American Energy”, opens new tab directives requires the Secretary of the …
In 2023, U.S. nuclear generators used 32 million pounds of imported uranium concentrate (U3O8) and only 0.05 million pounds of domestically produced U3O8. Imports accounted for 99% of the U3O8 they used in 2023 to make nuclear fuel. Foreign producers predominantly supply the U.S. front-end nuclear fuel cycle, but federal policies have been implemented recently to build out the …
Kazakhstan may commence the simultaneous construction of two nuclear power plants (NPPs), Kazakhstan’s Minister of Energy Almassadam Satkaliyev said in response to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s comments on the need to create a nuclear cluster in the country. «Given that the electricity shortage in Kazakhstan is worsening, the country should accelerate the construction of generating capacity and the development of …
The UAE is looking to export its nuclear energy prowess around the world, with a focus on the US — where an artificial intelligence boom is driving growth in power demand. “We want to capitalize on our success,” the CEO of Emirates Nuclear Energy Co. told the Financial Times, noting how the US holds particular appeal given …
EDF has signalled that Britain’s fleet of ageing nuclear power plants can keep running into the next decade amid a scramble to hit Ed Miliband’s clean power targets. The company on Monday said it aimed to “maximise output” from the remaining gas-cooled nuclear reactors to “2030+”, providing this can be agreed with regulators. It is the …
