Westinghouse of the US gets the nod to build the country’s first nuclear power plant. U.S. nuclear power technology provider Westinghouse will build Poland’s first reactor by 2033, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Wednesday. “We assume the overall cost at around $20 billion,” he told reporters, adding: “The upfront capital investment is big but once a nuclear …
An innovative design, emphasizing safety and economic efficiency, is key to the reactor technology at China’s newest—and now largest—nuclear power plant. China’s nuclear power program has utilized several technologies over the years, drawing on the expertise of its own engineers and those of other nations while pursuing its own reactor development and technology export program. …
The two units of the California nuclear plant had been set to retire in 2024 and 2025, but grid reliability challenges caused the state to reconsider. Pacific Gas & Electric on Monday submitted an application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requesting to continue operating the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant until 2030. California lawmakers voted …
Poland’s government has chosen South Korea as its partner to build its second planned nuclear power plant Poland’s government said Monday that it has chosen South Korea as its partner for building its second planned nuclear power plant, a decision that comes days after it picked the U.S. and Westinghouse to build the first one. …
U.S. firm Westinghouse Electric Co will build Poland’s first nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday, confirming a long-awaited decision aiming to reduce the country’s carbon emissions and phase out coal. With Russia waging war in neighbouring Ukraine, Poland’s choice of a partner from the United States underlines the emphasis Warsaw places …
Minister of Energy Virgil Popescu says Canada and the USA are both offering to help with the financing of the construction of Cernavoda 3 and 4 and said the US firms Fluor Corporation and Sargent & Lundy, Canada’s SNC Lavalin and France’s Framatome had agreed to “explore opportunities for cooperation in the civil nuclear field” …
Steam rises from cooling towers of the Electricite de France (EDF) nuclear power plant in Belleville-sur-Loire, France October 12, 2021. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo EDF expects to finish repair works at four more of its reactors by the end of this year, the head of the company’s nuclear fleet said on Thursday. He said works to …
The Board of Directors of EDF S.A. (“EDF” or the “Company”) held a meeting on 27 October 2022 to issue, in accordance with applicable regulations, its reasoned opinion on the draft simplified public tender offer (the “Offer”) initiated by the French State for the shares of the Company and the bonds convertible into new shares and/or …
In its third quarter 2022 earnings call presentation, Southern Company reduced its “Total project capital cost forecast” for Vogtle Units 3 and 4 to $10.383 billion from $10.453 billion, which is what it had reported in the company’s second quarter 2022 earnings call presentation. The company’s cost estimate reduction doesn’t mean that total project costs …
The United States is working on supplying its own uranium for existing and advanced nuclear reactors that could become commercial in the future to reduce dependency on Russia for the fuel, Jennifer Granholm, the U.S. energy secretary told reporters on Wednesday. The United States relies on Russia and its allies Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan for roughly …
