South Korea to build two new reactors, one SMR by 2038

Workers at Doosan Enerbility’s casting and forging plant in Changwon, South Korea, manufacture components for NuScale Power’s small modular reactor (SMR) in May 2023./Doosan Enerbility South Korea finalized its 11th Basic Plan for Long-Term Electricity Supply and Demand on Feb. 19, outlining energy supply and generation strategies for 2024 through 2038. Released every two years, …

Asia Markets India’s NTPC plans to spend $62 billion on 30GW of nuclear power, sources say

The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in Kudankulam, India on Thursday, March 21, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Indian state power company NTPC is looking to build 30 gigawatts (GW) of nuclear power capacity over the next two decades, three sources said. “NTPC plans to lead India’s nuclear power plan just as it …

President Zelenskyy Announces Expansion of Khmelnytskyi NPP with Westinghouse Amid Ukraine’s Nuclear Energy Breakthrough

Ukraine has launched the mass assembly of nuclear fuel while planning the expansion of Khmelnytskyi NPP with American Westinghouse technology We are currently preparing a project to expand our NPP with the involvement of American business. This project will strengthen energy security not only of Ukraine but of the entire European region” — President of …

TerraPower Awards Another Round of Vendor Contracts for Natrium® Reactor, Completes Procurement Milestone

TerraPower, a nuclear innovation company, announced today the selection of three supplier awards to support its first Natrium plant. These awards complete the procurement selection for long lead items for the United States’ first commercial advanced nuclear power plant. The Natrium Reactor Demonstration Project is currently under construction in Kemmerer, Wyoming, and is the first …

Spain’s Misguided Nuclear Phaseout Garners Opposition

As the U.S. makes a U-turn on premature nuclear closures with plans to restart both Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and Palisades in Michigan, Spain is sticking to the less than ideal model pioneered by the German nuclear phaseout: close the plants now and worry about grid reliability later. Spain has seven nuclear reactors currently operating. Spain’s misguided nuclear phaseout …

India wants to embrace nuclear power. To do it, it’ll need a lot of time and money

India wants more nuclear power, has pledged over $2 billion toward research and will change laws to boost investment to do it. The pledges were made by India’s finance minister earlier this month as part of a plan to expand electricity generation and reduce emissions. Nuclear power is a way to make electricity that doesn’t …

Jindal Nuclear plans to build 18GWe of nuclear power generation capacity in India

Jindal Nuclear plans to build 18GWe of nuclear power generation capacity in India over the next two decades, various local media reported citing a company statement. Jindal Nuclear, which is a part of the Naveen Jindal Group, and a 100% subsidiary of Jindal Renewables, said that the plan will include Bharat small reactors, small modular reactors …

France tempts AI firms with its nuclear electricity

UK-based AI cloud provider Fluidstack has signed a memorandum of understanding with the French government to construct one of the world’s largest decarbonised AI supercomputers in France. Meanwhile, utility EDF has identified four sites on its own land that it will offer for data centres. Announced at the AI Action Summit in Paris, under the …