The Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant in Pingtung County is pictured in an undated photograph. Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) is expected to submit a plan to restart two decommissioned nuclear power plants to the Nuclear Safety Commission by March next year, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday. The ministry in a statement said that …
Hungary and Romania are launching professional and political cooperation on extending the operating life of the Paks and Cernavoda nuclear power plants in order to complete the process as quickly as possible, announced Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on Tuesday in Bucharest. Following his talks in Romania, the Minister stated that the …
Hokkaido Governor Naomichi Suzuki will announce his intention at a prefectural assembly meeting on Friday to accept the restart of the No. 3 reactor at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.’s Tomari nuclear plant in the northern Japan prefecture, it was learned Tuesday. Suzuki plans to explain that restarting the reactor is the only realistic choice, given …
Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi on Friday agreed to the restart of a nuclear reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima accident, one of the world’s worst nuclear crises. Hanazumi made the decision even as he acknowledged that residents of the Sea …
Niigata prefecture governor expected to approve Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant as early as Friday, which will become operational by March 2026, marking 1st reopening of nuclear plant since Fukushima disaster in 2011 ISTANBUL Japan is set to restart the world’s largest nuclear power plant, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in central Niigata prefecture, Nikkei Asia …
The governor of Japan’s Niigata Prefecture will make a rare visit to one of the country’s most-troubled nuclear power plants this week, an event that will be watched closely by gas traders for any hint that the facility might be restarted. Hideyo Hanazumi is scheduled to visit Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant …
The logotype of Iberdrola is illuminated atop the 165-metre (541 feet) Cesar Pelli designed Iberdrola Tower, in Bilbao, Spain, February 29, 2024. Spanish energy companies Iberdrola (IBE.MC), Endesa (ELE.MC), and Naturgy (NTGY.MC) have requested to extend the operational life of their Almaraz nuclear power plant by about three years, until June 2030, a spokesperson for …
“Restarting a once fully operational plant is the fastest path to unlock large-scale nuclear power to meet AI growth in the near-term,” Google said Monday. Google and NextEra Energy will collaborate to restart the 600-MW Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa as part of a larger partnership aimed at accelerating nuclear deployment across the U.S., the …
NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE) has ordered major equipment including a power generator and cooling towers for the restart of its Duane Arnold nuclear power plant in Iowa, CEO John Ketchum told Reuters on Tuesday. The plant shut for economic reasons in 2020, the same year that a severe windstorm damaged the plant’s cooling towers. The restart …
Protesters in Belgium are working to keep nuclear power as a plant operator moves to shut a reactor down A 50-year-old reactor here was about to shut permanently last week after years of antinuclear protests, when a mysterious projection appeared on its massive cooling tower: the title of the Queen song “Don’t Stop Me Now” …