It serves as a critical support link powering the fuel needs of the country’s nuclear power programme Nuclear Fuel Complex is in the process of expediting the implementation of the Rs 4,200 crore second facility coming up at Kota in Rajasthan. The Hyderabad-based strategic PSU serves as a critical support link powering the fuel needs …
Poland’s central bank will help the state to obtain 51 percent of the funds necessary to build the country’s first NPP, the bank’s governor has told the “Sieci” weekly. Adam Glapinski, governor of the National Bank of Poland, told the weekly on Monday: “At the start, let the Americans build six nuclear power plants here… …
South Korea’s state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp. (Kepco) said Monday it has started a process to insert fuel rods into the second reactor in the Barakah nuclear plant of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Kepco and the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corp. (ENEC) said they kicked off the process starting last week. South Korea completed …
Poland is considering the site of Europe’s largest coal-fired power station as a location for a nuclear plant, part of Warsaw’s ambitious reactor new-build programme, Piotr Naimski, secretary of state for strategic energy infrastructure, told local RMF FM radio. Mr Naimski said Poland’s first two or three units will be built at one of two …
The 2021 Performance Program of Turkey’s Energy and Natural Resources Ministry has drawn a road map for the completion of the country’s first nuclear power plant, the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which says 27.5% of the plant will be completed by the end of this year. The program, which outlines the steps that will …
French power group EDF said on Wednesday it could double its growth target for renewable energy and become a European champion in the field provided a planned re-organisation, code-named Hercules, can get the go-ahead. State-controlled EDF says the revamp, which will separate the debt-laden nuclear power business from the rest of the company’s assets, will …
OSAKA – The mayor of the town of Takahama in Fukui Prefecture granted permission Monday for the restart of the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama Nuclear Power Plant, becoming the first local leader in the nation to approve use of nuclear reactors more than 40 years old. The Takahama No. …
TEHRAN- Hadi Beiginejad, a senior member of the Parliament’s Energy Committee, said on Sunday that Iran has started construction of phases 2 and 3 of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. “The second and third phases of the Bushehr power plant development have been signed with the Russians under 10-year and 8-year contracts,” Fars quoted Beiginejad …
The Bulgarian Council of Ministers, at a meeting on 20 January, approved plans presented by the Minister of Energy to construct a seventh unit at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant using Russian-supplied equipment purchased for the Belene project. The minister noted discussions have been held with Westinghouse of the USA to construct the unit. During …
India’s success in connecting its largest domestically-built nuclear reactor to the grid is a boost for plans to deploy the technology to help the world’s third-biggest polluter limit emissions, according to the official overseeing the plans. The 700-megawatt pressurized heavy water reactor of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station, located in the western state of Gujarat, …