The French government, which last year announced its intention of adding eight EPR reactors to the national fleet before 2027, has chosen Bugey nuclear power station as the site of two of them. The choice was between Bugey, which is sited near Lyon on the River Rhône, and Tricastin in the Drôme region, about 50km north of …
Kairos Power has submitted an application to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for permission to build the Hermes 2 plant next to the Hermes molten salt test reactor it plans to build at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The two-unit demonstration plant would produce and sell electricity. The NRC is now assessing the application, which was …
EDF, as the future operator of the potential first Nuward plant in France, has submitted the safety options file for the small modular reactor (SMR) to the country’s nuclear safety regulator, the Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN). The safety options file is a document that presents the safety objectives, the global design features, and the …
Georgia Power says that all 364 inspections, tests and analyses have been performed and all acceptance criteria, known as ITAACs, have been met on Vogtle unit 4 and the documentation submitted to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The ITAACs – Inspections, Tests, Analyses, and Acceptance Criteria – must all be verified before fuel can …
A project for a submersible underwater power module, featuring two nuclear power units with a total capacity of 20 MWe, that can dive to a depth of 400 metres and provide energy in Arctic regions is being worked on by the Malakhit Marine Engineering Bureau in St Petersburg, Russia. Strana Rosatom, the Russian nuclear corporation’s …
The largest and heaviest module – the CA20 – has been installed at unit 4 of the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China’s Shandong province, the Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute (SNERDI) has announced. The cuboid-shaped CA20 module comprises plant and equipment for used fuel storage, transmission, the heat exchanger and waste collection, …
The planned plant is expected to cost about £20bn, but experts believe the final figure will be much higher The energy secretary has said the government remains committed to a new nuclear power station in Suffolk. Grant Shapps made the comment as he promised an expansion of nuclear power “at unprecedented scale and pace”. The …
Eletronuclear has reached agreement with Angra dos Reis City Hall to pay BRL264 million (USD55 million) “socio-environmental compensation” for the construction of Angra 3 nuclear power unit. The agreement will see Eletronuclear pay the money in five annual installments, until 2027 which is the scheduled date for the start of operations at Angra 3. According …
Hanul (formerly Uljin) Nuclear Power Plant The government is considering building another nuclear power plant under its next long-term energy policy plan amid rising electricity demand. With the possibility of a new nuclear power plant now on the table, the Yoon Suk Yeol administration is continuing its drive to reverse the previous government’s nuclear phase-out …
The signing of the MoU between Daewoo E&C and ERBUD (Image: ERBUD) Among the agreements signed during a Polish-Korean business forum on 14 July was a memorandum of understanding between Poland’s KGHM Polska Miedź SA and South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corporation on the implementation of low and zero-emission technologies, including small modular reactors (SMRs). Daewoo …