Nornickel starts talks with Russia’s state nuclear energy company Rosatom on the building of a small-scale nuclear power station in Norilsk. A memorandum of understanding was this week signed by Nornickel owner and CEO Vladimir Potanin and Rosatom General Secretary Aleksei Likhachev. It outlines the building of a small-scale nuclear power station in the far …
The foundation for the world’s first nuclear power ultra-large high-level seawater cooling tower has been laid at unit 1 of the Lianjiang plant in China’s Guangdong province, State Power Investment Corp (SPIC) announced. The final concrete for the circular foundation of the tower was poured on 12 November. The foundation is more than 10 metres …
The country needs to decarbonise. Its renewables face charges of intermittency. Is nuclear the answer? On December 14 last year, Union minister of state for Atomic Energy and Space Jitendra Singh made an announcement with far-reaching consequences. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Singh said the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government will commission …
The announcement, by Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy, came after a meeting in Washington DC, between Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko (pictured above, left) and Holtec President Chris Singh (pictured, right). Ukraine’s Centralised Spent Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF), located in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, was commissioned last year. It is a dry storage site for used nuclear …
The 350-tonne reactor pressure vessel for Akkuyu unit 3 in Turkey has been delivered after a 1700-mile journey. The cylindrical reactor pressure vessel is 11.45 metres long and 5.7 metres wide and was produced by the Volgodonsk branch of AEM-Technologies JSC of Atommash, part of Atomenergomash, the machine production division of Rosatom. The Akkuyu plant, …
France’s power sector is under fresh scrutiny as maintenance on several of the country’s critical nuclear reactors continues just as Europe braces for another winter, when regional heating demand typically peaks. Nuclear reactors generate 65% to 70% of France’s electricity, which is the highest share of nuclear generation globally and has historically enabled France to …
Switzerland plans keeping nuclear plants in use longer than previously expected over fears of electricity shortages, mirroring a broader trend of European countries revisiting the potential of atomic energy. The country decided to exit nuclear power in 2017, but didn’t set a date to shut down its four plants, which are supposed to run as …
The steel containment dome was successfully hoisted into place at the ACP100 small modular reactor (SMR) demonstration project at the Changjiang site on China’s island province of Hainan, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has announced. The reactor building for the ACP100 – also referred to as the Linglong One – consists of three parts: the internal …
Cold hydrostatic testing has been completed at unit 1 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China’s Fujian province, the first of two Hualong One reactors under construction at the site. The tests mark the first time the reactor systems are operated together with the auxiliary systems. Cold functional tests are carried out to confirm …
The second unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant was put into commercial operation on 1 November. Together with the first unit the new nuclear power plant will provide about 40% of the country’s electricity needs. The first power unit – also a Russian VVER-1200 reactor – was connected to the grid in November 2020 and, …
