Bulgaria has taken the first steps towards the construction of two additional reactors at its Kozloduy nuclear power plant, which will add combined capacity of 2,300 megawatts (MW), Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov said on Wednesday. The energy ministry will begin selection of a contractor for the design, construction and commissioning of the seventh new power …
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Eslami said, “In the implementation of the 20-year document of the Atomic Energy Organization, the nuclear fuel cycle and the development of mining industry activities are on the agenda. Yesterday, we started the operation of the 12th mine in West Azerbaijan.” As regards …
The circular overhead crane in the first unit of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey has been put into operation. The first components of the fuel reloading system have also been delivered, TVEL says. The polar crane has a lifting capacity of 390 tonnes, a diameter of 41.5 metres with the weight of the …
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd started loading the first fuel into the core of the pressurised heavy water reactor unit on 20 October, after receiving permission from India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board. Kakrapar 4 – also referred to as KAPP-4 – is one of two Indian-designed 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs) being …
Bruce Power has formally notified Canadian regulators of its intent to launch an Impact Assessment (IA) for potential new nuclear generation on the Bruce Power site. Days after announcing the launch of an Expression of Interest process to explore technology options for up to 4800 MWe of new nuclear capacity at its existing site, the …
Slovenia will push forward with plans to build its second nuclear power plant, its largest and most expensive infrastructure project to date, as it aims to phase out coal by 2033. “It won’t come cheap,” Dejan Paravan, Chief Executive Officer GEN energija doo., said in an interview. Initial estimates from 2006 put the project cost …
Bruce Power announced it is launching an Expression of Interest (EOI) process to “further understand nuclear technologies that could help meet growing demand for clean electricity and advance decarbonisation efforts in Ontario”. In July, the provincial government said it was starting pre-development work to build up to 4800 MWe of new nuclear capacity at Bruce …
It has been six months since the regular electricity production of the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant unit started. Actually, it’s been a bit more than six months, as OL3 began regular electricity production on April 16. OL3 has been supplying electricity to the national grid for even longer. A significant date in history is …
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced it has signed an agreement with Canada’s Candu Energy and Italy’s Ansaldo Nucleare to jointly carry out a refurbishment of unit 1 at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania. Candu units are pressurised heavy water reactors designed to operate for 30 years, with a further 30 years …
Sheffield Forgemasters, X-energy and Cavendish Nuclear have signed a memorandum of understanding on collaborating to explore opportunities around the deployment of a fleet of Xe-100 high temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) in the UK. X-energy of the USA and Cavendish Nuclear – a UK subsidiary of Babcock International group – will tap into Sheffield Forgemasters’ decades …
