Swedish nuclear technical services provider Studsvik has signed a memorandum of understanding with small modular reactor (SMR) project development company Kärnfull Next, which is investigating the possibility of constructing and operating SMRs on the Studsvik industrial site near Nyköping on Sweden’s east coast. Kärnfull Next said the feasibility study began in May, and preliminary results …
KHNP is likely to pay technical advisory fees to Westinghouse to settle dispute over reactor exports to Poland Poland started an approval process to build a nuclear power plant consisting of South Korean reactors, foreign media reported, despite the ongoing dispute over the Asian country’s export of atomic furnaces between US Westinghouse Electric Corp. and …
The U.S. Justice Department is urging regulators to take a closer look at Vistra Corp.’s planned $6.8 billion acquisition of a rival power producer because it may be anticompetitive. The warning applies to Vistra’s proposed takeover of Energy Harbor Corp. announced in March, a deal that would more than double its nuclear capacity, increase its natural gas …
The start of construction follows amendments to the construction contract agreed in August 2023. Atomstroyexport, a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom, has commenced main-stage construction of two new water-water energetic reactor (VVER)-1200 power units at the Paks II nuclear power plant (NPP) in Hungary, with a total power-generating capacity of 2.4GW. Rosatom’s …
The PHRS is a passive safety system that ensures the long-term removal of heat from the reactor core into the atmosphere in the absence of all sources of power supply The installation of eight heat exchangers of the Passive Heat Removal System (PHRS) has been completed in Unit 1 of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant …
PGE PAK Energia Jądrowa has submitted an application to Poland’s Ministry of Climate for a decision-in-principle on the construction of the nuclear power plant consisting of at least two Korean-supplied APR1400 reactors in the Patnów-Konin region of Wielkopolska province in central Poland. PGE PAK Energia Jądrowa SA is a 50/50 joint special purpose vehicle formed …
The Ministry of Energy has issued an update on progress towards the construction of Kazakhstan’s first nuclear power plant, confirming the selection of Ulken in the Zhambyl district of Almaty region as the most suitable area for the plant for which four potential suppliers have been shortlisted. The findings of a study of Ulken’s suitability …
Georgia Power announced today the process to load fuel into the Vogtle Unit 4 reactor core has begun at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, Ga. Loading fuel marks a pivotal milestone toward startup and commercial operation of the second new unit at Plant Vogtle. Vogtle Unit 3 – the first newly-constructed nuclear unit in the U.S. in more …
CHINA’S investment in new nuclear power plants is expected to hit 231 billion yuan ($31.80 billion) by 2025, Citic Securities said on Monday. The investment scale is coordinated with China’s development plan for the nuclear power sector, Lin Boqiang, director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University, told the Global Times …
Hydro-Québec is evaluating the Gentilly-2 power plant and the potential of nuclear power to meet energy needs, but nothing is decided yet, Pierre Fitzgibbon says. Hydro-Québec is evaluating the current state of the Gentilly-2 power plant, which closed in 2012, in order to “feed into its reflections on Quebec’s future energy supply.” The news has created …