China: Homes of 200,000 residents in Haiyang now fully heated by nuclear power

A person riding a tricycle with an umbrella during snowfall in China’s eastern Shandong province. More than 200,000 residents of Haiyang city in the eastern coastal province of Shandong, China have begun to receive nuclear power-generated central heating for winter. (AFP) The residents of Haiyang city in the eastern coastal province of Shandong, China have …

Turkey to begin work on 2 more nuclear power plants: Erdoğan

Turkey will swiftly start preparations for its second and third nuclear power plants, the country’s president said Tuesday. These will follow the country’s first nuclear power plant, Akkuyu, which is being built in the southern Mersin province. “We are carrying out our studies considering the growing energy needs. We plan to commission the first unit …

Korea, France and the U.S. Likely to Compete for Polish Nuclear Power Plant Project

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy had a meeting with the government of Poland on Nov. 5 (local time) and discussed South Korea’s participation in Poland’s nuclear power plant construction project. The consortium of South Korea, including the Export-Import Bank of Korea, the Korea Trade Insurance Corp., …

France’s nuclear sector prepared to build new EPR reactors – EDF

PARIS, Nov 8 (Reuters) – France’s nuclear industry is prepared to construct additional third-generation EPR nuclear reactors within agreed costs and timelines should the government decide to do so, an official of state-owned utility EDF said on Monday. “The nuclear industry is transforming and will stand ready,” Alain Tranzer, a senior engineer in charge of …

UK nuclear fleet marks major milestone

The UK’s nuclear stations, run by EDF, reached a major milestone this week, clocking up 2000 terawatt hours (TWh) of zero carbon electricity – enough to power all the UK’s homes for more than 18 years. Since the oldest stations in the fleet first started generating in 1976 the eight sites across the UK have …

Georgia Power allowed to bill customers $2.1B for Plant Vogtle expansion

ATLANTA — Georgia’s utility-regulating agency voted unanimously Tuesday to let Georgia Power pass on to customers $2.1 billion of the costs of completing the first of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle. That figure, which will boost average residential customer bills by $3.78 a month, was set in an agreement the Atlanta-based utility and …

Nuclear Power Foundation of China’s Future Generation

China has its sights set on being the world leader when it comes to nuclear power technology. The country has brought its first Hualong One—a third-generation pressurized water reactor—online at the Fuqing plant in Fujian province, with its developers calling it a “strategic tool for the government to promote nuclear power technologies abroad.” China is …