Story highlights The Indo-Russian Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear facility in India. Of its six VVER-1000 type reactors, units 1 and 2 were connected to India’s national power grid in 2013 and 2016 respectively. The third unit of the six-unit Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu …
Developing new large and small-scale nuclear power plant projects and wider nuclear fuel cycle cooperation were discussed during talks between Rosatom and India’s Department of Atomic Energy. According to the Russian state corporation, the technical specifications for the construction of a new Russian-designed nuclear power plant in India with VVER-1200 reactor units are currently being …
State-owned French power utility EDF is aiming to finalise the conceptual design of a small modular reactor next year, a senior executive said on Thursday, as the nuclear giant looks to compete in an increasingly crowded global market for the new technology. The company aims to have up to 30 of the small reactors in …
Framatome and TerraPower have achieved a key milestone in uranium metallization for advanced reactor fuel commercialization, producing successful elements of uranium metal. These metallic uranium ‘pucks’ represent a critical component in advancing the fuel supply chain for TerraPower’s Natrium® reactor. The metallization fabrication line was completed at Framatome’s Richland, Washington, nuclear fuel manufacturing facility. The …
Iran is going to construct eight new nuclear power plants with Russia’s cooperation as part of efforts to expand its clean and sustainable energy production, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced Mohammad Eslami said on Sunday that a new agreement has been concluded between the governments of Iran and Russia for …
Kansai Electric Power Co. will start a survey in early November to assess whether it can build a new nuclear reactor in or near its Mihama nuclear power plant in central Japan, Jiji Press learned Monday. The survey will mark the first concrete move toward nuclear reactor construction in Japan since the March 2011 meltdowns …
Dunkirk power plant Chautauqua County leaders say they are ready to host New York’s next nuclear power plant — and they’ve got a location in mind. Chautauqua County officials are trying to make the case with Albany that they have the best site to locate a new nuclear power plant. It comes as the New …
The second of two steam generators for the nuclear island has been installed at unit 1 of the Lianjiang nuclear power plant in China’s Guangdong province, marking the completion of installation of key equipment. Steam generators are heat exchangers which convert heat generated by the reactor core into steam, which is transported to the conventional …
TerraPower has submitted its Natrium reactor and energy storage system into the UK’s Generic Design Assessment process in the company’s first regulatory step to deploying the technology in an international market. The Generic Design Assessment – or GDA – process allows UK regulators to assess the safety, security and environmental implications of new reactor designs, …
The Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and Ontario will work together to explore small modular reactor technology as a clean energy option. According to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 23 October by Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, who is also Minister of Energy, and Ontario Minister of Energy and Mines Stephen Lecce, the two provinces …
