A ceremony has been held to mark the beginning of the installation – ahead of schedule – of the core catcher in the second unit at Egypt’s El Dabaa nuclear power plant. The installation of the core catcher – or melt trap – was one of the construction targets for 2024 so its installation is …
Korea Electric Power Corp. CEO Kim Dong-cheol, sixth from left, poses with field workers at Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, Thursday (local time). Courtesy of Korea Electric Power Corp. Company chief inspects Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) CEO Kim Dong-cheol visited the Barakah Nuclear Energy …
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy report, Made in Britain: The Pathway to a Nuclear Renaissance, says multiple small modular reactor (SMR) units should be ordered to justify firms’ investment in UK production facilities – and calls for Wylfa in North Wales to be backed within the next year as the next large-scale plant. The …
The termination of the project that had been expected to be the first operational NuScale SMR reactor was “very disappointing” but the company remains bullish about the future, according to the company’s CEO. Speaking in a special update to the 2023 ANS Winter Conference and Expo, hosted by the American Nuclear Society (ANS), John Hopkins said the mutual …
Construction has started of the nuclear island for unit 1 at the Xudabao nuclear power plant in Liaoning Province, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced. The construction of units 1 and 2 of the Xudabao (also known as Xudapu) plant was approved by China’s State Council on 31 July this year. On 6 November, the …
Sweden’s government said it aimed to build the equivalent of two new conventional nuclear reactors by 2035 on Thursday to meet surging demand for clean power from industry and transport and was prepared to take on some of the costs. By 2045 the government wants to have the equivalent of 10 new reactors, some of …
Poland’s incoming administration is set to pile pressure on foreign companies in the country’s nascent nuclear energy program to buy an equity stake in the venture. Grzegorz Onichimowski, the chief energy adviser to the Civic Platform party, said the already chosen US partners, Westinghouse Electric Co. and Bechtel Group Inc., should take at least a …
The main construction period for the VVER-1200 unit will begin in 2025 after the go-ahead was given to begin the second stage of the construction project for what will be the seventh and eighth units at Leningrad nuclear power plants. Work at the construction site has seen a pit prepared for the nuclear island of …
China on Wednesday started construction of the No. 1 power unit of its Xudapu Nuclear Power Plant in the country’s northeastern province of Liaoning. The full-scale construction of the nuclear island of the power unit in the city of Huludao will help establish a new energy system and promote green and low-carbon energy transformation in …
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Rosatom’s Director General Alexei Likhachev have signed an agreement on the schedule for the construction of the Paks II nuclear power plant. Although the detail of the agreed schedule has not been released, Szijjártó (pictured, right, with Likhachev) said on his Facebook page: “We signed the Paks II schedule, based …
