Poland’s Council of Ministers has adopted a draft act amending the act on the preparation and implementation of investments in nuclear power facilities and associated investments, the country’s National Atomic Energy Agency (Państwowa Agencja Atomistyki) announced. The main goal of the changes is to shorten the time of investment implementation. In September last year, it …
Share The concreting of the inner containment dome of the reactor building of unit 2 at the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh has been started. Workers begin concreting the inner dome of Rooppur 2 (Image: Rosatom) More than 3200 cubic metres of concrete will be pumped onto the 17.6-metre-high reinforced concrete structure, with a …
The CA20 module prior to its hoisting into position in the nuclear island of Sanmen 3 (Image: CNNC) The largest and heaviest module has been installed at unit 3 of the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China’s Zhejiang province, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has announced. The cuboid-shaped CA20 module comprises plant and equipment for …
In a first for Japan since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, public support for a nuclear restart is now at more than 60%, said a former executive director of the International Energy Agency. Nobuo Tanaka attributed that to the possibility of “serious problems by the end of this year” if Japan does not have …
The world’s first commercial land-based small modular reactor, or SMR, is under construction in southern China’s Hainan Province. Our reporter Zheng Yibing visited the power plant where the unit is located. China’s building the demonstration project of the “Linglong-1,” a small modular reactor in the country’s southern island province of Hainan. It’s the world’s first such type …
Move prompted by the mounting economic war with Russia marks the first departure from a two-decade policy to abandon nuclear energy Germany plans to postpone the closure of the country’s last three nuclear power plants as it braces for a possible shortage of energy this winter after Russia throttled gas supplies to the country, said …
Aerial view of the Diablo Canyon, the only operational nuclear plant left in California, viewed in these aerial photos taken on December 1, 2021, near Avila Beach, California. Set on 1,000 acres of scenic coastal property just north and west of Avila Beach, the controversial power plant operated by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) was …
The reactor pressure vessel (RPV) has been hoisted into place at unit 2 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China’s Fujian province. Zhangzhou 2 is the second of two Hualong One units being built at the site, scheduled to enter commercial operation in 2024 and 2025, respectively. The RPV – weighing 316 tonnes – …
China is expected to further expand its installed nuclear power capacity during the 2022-25 period as the country goes full speed ahead with its green energy transition, eyeing carbon neutrality by 2060, said an industry group. Prompted by the goal of peaking carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality, China is expected to approve six to …
Maintenance and repair activities have been completed in the turbine island of the Olkiluoto 3 EPR plant unit. Test production phase continues at 60 percent power level. At OL3 the sixty-percent power level equals an output of about 850 megawatt (MW). The nominal output rating of the Olkiluoto 1 and Olkiluoto 2 plant units is …
