French nuclear group Orano on Monday inaugurated a 1.15 billion euro (1.02 billion pounds) uranium conversion plant despite huge global overcapacity for nuclear reactor fuel. State-owned Orano’s new plant in Tricastin, southern France, will account for a quarter of the world’s 60,000-tonne annual uranium hexafluoride (UF6) production capacity when it fully ramps up in 2021 …
The dominant power producer Slovenské Elektrárne has completed a successful cold hydraulic test of the third unit of the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant. The test is one of the crucial parts of the nuclear power plant commissioning process. “It is a key milestone that confirmed the functioning of all tested components and took us closer …
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) is one of the largest nuclear power station in India. It is scheduled to have six VVER-1000 reactors with an installed capacity of 1,000 MW each. The Unit 1 of the plant was synchronised with the southern power grid in October 2013 and is generating electricity. The second Unit …
Under stewardship of President Chung Jae-hoon, who took office in April, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) is accelerating efforts to export nuclear power plants abroad on its own. KHNP, the nation’s sole nuclear power operator, met with President Cosmin Ghita of the state-owned energy producer Nuclearelectrica of Romania in Gyeongju in early July to …
Unit 2 of the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China’s Zhejiang province has been connected to the electricity grid and has begun supplying power. In late-June, Sanmen 1 became the world’s first AP1000 to achieve grid connection and power generation. Sanmen 2 was connected to the grid at 5:22pm today, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) …
Installation has begun of the core catcher – a passive safety system – for unit 1 of the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced. A core catcher is a device provided to catch the molten core material – corium – of a reactor in the unlikely event of a …
Chugoku Electric Power Co. on Friday applied to the government for safety screening of a nuclear reactor it is constructing, opening up the possibility of it becoming Japan’s first newly built reactor to go into operation since the 2011 Fukushima crisis. Work on the No. 3 unit at the Shimane plant in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, …
Milestones in the commissioning of the AP1000s under construction at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China’s Shandong province were met on 8 August. Unit 1 achieved first criticality, while fuel loading started at unit 2. Unit 1 of the Haiyang plant attained first criticality – a sustained chain reaction – at 10.42am yesterday, State …
Several milestones have been reached at nuclear power plant construction sites around the world including on the Leningrad II-2, Novovoronezh II-2, Barakah, and Plant Vogtle projects. Russian Progress At the Leningrad site, Rosatom—the Russian state atomic energy corporation—reported on August 7 that the main turbine equipment installation for Phase II Unit 2 was completed. The …
Turkey will build a third nuclear power plant in the Thrace region northwest of Istanbul, and will cooperate with China on the initiative, Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said on Wednesday. Donmez also told broadcaster A Haber that Turkey’s first nuclear power plant was expected to come online in 2023. The $20 billion, 4,800 megawatt (MW) plant has …