Nuclear 2024 roundup: ‘Urenco can scale up HALEU operations where needed’

The modular flexibility of Urenco’s advanced fuels’ operations was emphasised at the Nuclear Industry Association’s (NIA) Nuclear 2024 conference last week.  Head of Advanced Fuels – Commercial, Magnus Mori, told a panel on allied fuel supply that both supportive Government policy and customer contracts were key to standing up the developing market. With regard to increasing …

Kazakhstan holds talks with France on first nuclear power plant

An abandoned apartment building toward the planned nuclear power plant construction site in the village of Ulken, about 400 kilometers north of Almaty, Kazakhstan, the place where the first country’s nuclear power plant is planned to be built. September 21, 2024. The Uranium-rich nation, which suffers from chronic energy shortages, approved plans to build a nuclear …

Axpo will operate the Beznau nuclear power plant until 2033, investing a further CHF 350 million while doing so

 After a comprehensive review, Axpo decided on 4 December 2024 to secure the operation of the Beznau nuclear power plant until 2033 by investing CHF 350 million. This means that in 2033, Beznau will be able to look back on 64 years of reliable and low-carbon electricity production.  Axpo has made extensive clarifications and conducted …

Meta seeks up to 4 GW of new nuclear power to help meet AI, sustainability objectives

The Facebook and Instagram parent aims to deploy new nuclear generation capacity to power its data centers beginning in the early 2030s, it said Tuesday. Meta wants nuclear energy developers to submit proposals for new generation capacity to help it “meet our AI innovation and sustainability objectives,” the company said Tuesday. Its request for proposals seeks 1 GW …

Poland explores possibility of third nuclear power plant

Poland is reportedly exploring the possibility of constructing a third nuclear power plant (NPP) on its territory, according to sources. The Polish Ministry of Industry is expected to present an updated nuclear energy development program before the end of the year, which will include an analysis of the potential for a third NPP, News.Az reports, citing a Polish …

South Africa ‘committed to new nuclear and PBMR’

The South African government remains committed to the use of nuclear energy and is planning to revive its Pebble Bed Modular Reactor programme and embark on new builds, the Deputy Director General of the Department for Mineral Resources and Energy has said. The 29 November event was themed Advancing Nuclear Technology’s Contribution for Just Energy Transition, Energy …

Ontario Generating More Energy to Meet Soaring Demand

Province exploring sites for energy generation in Port Hope, Haldimand County and St. Clair Township The Ontario government has asked Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to begin discussions with Indigenous, community and municipal leaders on its existing sites in Port Hope, Haldimand County and St. Clair Township to determine community support for all types of new …

Amazon offers $334M for nuclear reactors to be built at Hanford

The small modular reactor could reestablish nuclear power as an alternative energy source, with the Washington-based company as its biggest investor. he latest attempt to put Washington at the center of nuclear power development is happening at the site of the state’s last effort, which mostly failed almost 40 years ago. And one of the …