SNC-Lavalin (TSX: SNC), a fully integrated professional services and project management company with offices around the world, has been appointed as engineering supplier by Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor Ltd (SMR) as it enters a new phase of its pioneering program. Building on its role as a Phase One partner in the original UK SMR consortium, …
The Generic Design Assessment (GDA) for the UK HPR1000, the reactor technology proposed for Bradwell B, was successfully completed today, with the issuing of a Design Acceptance Confirmation (DAC) from the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and a Statement of Design Acceptability (SoDA) from the Environment Agency. This marks the end of a five-year process where the nuclear regulators have …
New materials and equipment produced for Akkuyu NPP were delivered to the Eastern Cargo Terminal located on site. Departing from the Saint Petersburg Port in the northwest of Russia, the cargo ship arrived in Turkey, and in addition to the reactor pressure vessel of the 2nd power unit, the second layer sections of the inner …
Nucleoeléctrica Argentina and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) have signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract for the development of the Atucha 3 nuclear power plant. The nuclear power plant, to be sited near Lima, about 100 kilometres north west of Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, will use China’s Hualong One technology – the HPR1000 reactor, …
Alberto Fernandez said that many infrastructure projects, including hydropower plants and nuclear power plants, were waiting for this agreement because they required foreign financing BUENOS AIRES, January 28. /TASS/. The Argentinian leadership is ready to resume negotiations on the possibility of building a nuclear power plant (NPP) with the participation of Russia, after the South …
Completing the construction of the two 700 MW nuclear power plants in Gujarat and Rajasthan, speeding up of other atomic power projects will be the focus in 2022, said a top official of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He also said the construction of two 700 MW Pressurised Heavy Water …
HIGHLIGHTS Rusatom ready for Saudi Arabia tenders Egypt’s first nuclear plant should start in 2028 Turkey’s Akkuyu project will meet 10% of power needs Russia’s state nuclear energy producer Rosatom is in talks with “several” countries in the Middle East and North Africa to explore development of nuclear power, including nuclear research reactors, the …
The second unit of the United Arab Emirates’ Barakah nuclear power plant is set to begin commercial operations in coming months, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation’s (ENEC) CEO said on Wednesday. The third unit of the plant’s planned four reactors will start operations in late 2022, Mohammed al-Hammadi told a sustainable fiance conference in Abu …
The minister was joined by EDF’s chief executive at the plant in Somerset Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has said that Hinkley Point C will help protect the UK from “volatile” wholesale gas prices during a visit to the nuclear power plant in Somerset. Mr Kwarteng praised the progress made during construction of the plant as …
The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has been in Somerset today (Thursday), seeing how work is progressing at Hinkley Point C. Kwasi Kwarteng MP toured Europe’s largest construction site with the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, Helen Whately MP. The Chairman and Chief Executive of EDF, Jean-Bernard Levy, accompanied the Ministers …