The Egyptian presidency has studied the possibility of signing the contracts for Dabaa nuclear power plant along with the opening ceremony of opening new Alamein city in October 2017, anonymous sources in the Egyptian government said on Wednesday. The sources added that the ministries of Housing and Investment will celebrate with the 75th anniversary of …
FUKUI – The Fukui Prefectural Assembly effectively gave its green light on Thursday to the restart of the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Oi nuclear power plant. By a majority vote at a plenary meeting, the assembly adopted an opinion paper which implicitly assumes the reactors will restart. The final …
* EDF publicly disagrees with regulator closure order * Says dike strengthening to be carried out within a month * Plant to shut down in coming days, EDF hopes for Nov restart * Shut-down increases worry over winter supply, prices jump (Adds IRSN comment on flooding risk, Greenpeace comment) By Bate Felix and Sudip Kar-Gupta …
Sept 28 (Reuters) – The following table lists maintenance outages and unscheduled stoppages at Swiss nuclear power plants. Maintenance usually takes place in the spring and summer. Ownership of the plants is detailed under (1,2,3…) Please click on the link at the bottom to access the data. New content is marked*** REACTOR NAME CAPACITY TIME …
The World Nuclear Association has welcomed the start of general construction work at the site of the planned Akkuyu nuclear power plant, following confirmation by Alexey Likhachov, director-general of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom. Speaking to journalists last week at the 61st regular session of the International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference in Vienna, …
OI, Fukui (Jiji Press)—The mayor of Oi on Monday gave his consent to Kansai Electric Power Co.’s plan to restart two nuclear power reactors in the town in Fukui Prefecture. Oi Mayor Hiroshi Nakatsuka announced his approval to restart the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant, at a meeting …
UAE energy minister Suhail al-Mazroui said on Monday the country’s first nuclear reactor would “definitely” be operational by next year. Speaking at an event in Abu Dhabi, al-Mazroui said the first nuclear reactor was 96 percent complete. The UAE is looking to nuclear energy to contribute around 25 percent to its clean energy mix by …
ST. PETERSBURG, September 21. /TASS/. China presented an offer to Rosatom on a site to build a new nuclear power plant (NPP) of the Russian design, Chief Executive Officer of the Russian state-owned nuclear corporation Alexei Likhachev told reporters on Thursday. “The site is nominated by the Chinese party; we received [the offer on the …
The second 1,000 MW nuclear power unit at Kudankulam is expected to restart power generation on October 7, the Power System Operation Corporation Ltd (Posoco) saod. The mega nuclear power plant was shut down on August 4, due to hydrogen concentration in the stator. The unit was earlier expected to restart generation on September 4. …
FUZHOU, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — A fourth unit of the Fuqing branch of China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) began commercial operations on Sunday in east China’s Fujian Province. The China-designed No. 4 unit brings the total installed capacity of the project to 4.35 million kw. The first unit was put into use in 2014. The …
