Hungary plans to extend the lifetime of the Paks nuclear power plant and will make assessments about costs and feasibility next month, Technology and Industry Minister Laszlo Palkovics told Inforadio late on Wednesday. Palkovics said the nuclear plant “could have up to 20 additional years” of service and he said his ministry would draft a …
The first concrete was poured for unit 3 of the Sanmen nuclear power plant on June 28 in East China’s Zhejiang province, marking the start of the plant’s second phase project. The China National Nuclear Power under the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has built and put into operation 11 nuclear power units at the Qinshan and Sanmen plants. The …
FILE – Construction site of Al Dabaa Power Plant The Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority announced Wednesday the issuance of the permit to build the first reactor at Al Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant. The request to establish the first two reactors, out of four, was submitted to the authority on January 1, 2019. Since …
Inner containment dome metal structures were installed in the reactor building of Power Unit 2 at the Rooppur NPP construction site in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (the NPP’s General Designer and General Contractor is the ROSATOM’s Engineering Division). The upper portion of the dome weighing 194 tonnes and being 35.7 m in diameter was …
Prior to the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, 54 nuclear reactors were in operation in Japan, supplying approximately 30% of the country’s electric power. However, the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was a drastic blow to nuclear power’s reputation, leading to increased distrust and unease toward the energy source. As of …
This isn’t the country’s first attempt at an atomic renaissance. Will the Dutch actually make it work this time? The Netherlands ― On this windswept peninsula near the Belgian border, the trees grow shrubby and the dune grasses bow horizontally before the North Sea’s gusts. But along the coast, industrial spires rise vertically, defying nature …
After 168 hours of test operation, Unit 6 of the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant, in Northeast China’s Liaoning Province, received the qualification for commercial operation, marking an important milestone with all the six units of the first nuclear power plant in the northeast of the country is fully operational, according to media reports. Starting construction …
The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, on the edge of the Pacific ocean, was due to close in three years. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images The Diablo Canyon facility, which provides 9% of the state’s energy, was due to shutter in 2025, but the state’s energy crunch could save it. California’s last nuclear plant was nearing the end …
A development company backed by the Welsh Government says it is embarking on a programme to bring small modular reactor (SMR) technology to the site of the decommissioned nuclear power plant at Trawsfynydd. Cwmni Egino is wholly owned by the Welsh Government and was established last year to develop a new reactor at the Trawsfynydd …
Capacity prices across most of the PJM Interconnection fell 32% to a 10-year low of $34.13/MW-day from $50/MW-day in the previous auction, possibly reflecting recent rule changes, the grid operator said Tuesday. PJM bought 144,871 MW of capacity for the capacity year that starts June 1, 2023, for $2.2 billion, down from $4 billion in the last …