Kenya’s nuclear agency submitted impact studies for a $5 billion power plant, and said it’s on course to build and start operating the facility in about seven years. The government looks to expand its nuclear-power capacity fourfold from a planned initial 1,000 megawatts by 2035, the Nuclear Power and Energy Agency said in a report …
AFTER almost four years of building, the UK’s biggest nuclear plant is nearly 40 per cent complete. The project is Electricite de France’s (EDF) Hinkley Point C, the UK’s first new nuclear power plant in more than 20 years. It is now facing delays as the coronavirus pandemic hampered work on-site and hit supply chains. …
The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) today announced that its operating and maintenance subsidiary, Nawah Energy Company (Nawah) has successfully started up Unit 1 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, located in the Al Dhafrah Region of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). This step is the most historic milestone to date in the delivery …
India’s atomic power plants operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) plans to start construction of four more nuclear power units this year, said a top official of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He said two units of 700 MW will be in Haryana and two 1,000 MW units in Tamil Nadu and added …
KAPP-3, which attained criticality on Wednesday morning, is India’s first 700 MWe unit, and the biggest indigenously developed variant of the Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor. The third unit of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP-3) in Gujarat achieved its ‘first criticality’ — a term that signifies the initiation of a controlled but sustained nuclear fission reaction — …
The third unit of Kakrapar Atomic Power Plant (KAPP) in Gujarat is ready to generate electricity, with the 700 MWe reactor achieving ‘criticality. A nuclear reactor reaches ‘criticality’, when it is ready for ongoing nuclear reaction or fission that generates energy. “Congratulations to our nuclear scientists for achieving criticality of Kakrapar Atomic Power Plant-3! This …
The first of 163 nuclear fuel assemblies has been loaded into the VVER-1200 reactor of power unit 2 of Leningrad NPP-2. Fuel loading marks the beginning of the physical start-up of an NPP. The plant is operated by ROSATOM’s Electric Power Division Rosenergoatom. Rosenergoatom‘s Director General Andrei Petrov said: “Beginning physical start-up procedures means that …
China will build six to eight nuclear reactors a year between 2020 and 2025 and raise total capacity to 70 gigawatts (GW), up 43.5 per cent compared to the end of May, the official China Daily said on Thursday (Jul 9), citing the country’s nuclear association. The China Nuclear Energy Association said the country’s total …
Installation of storage tanks marks beginning of “MEH” phase to fit electrical systems, cables and pipework 1,200 new jobs and 300 apprenticeships expected across British supply chain Engineering firms in Staffordshire and Lancashire are latest to announce new jobs Training in welding and electrical engineering will boost national skills capacity Staffordshire-based Capula and Exyte Hargreaves from …
The construction of the second unit of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant Akkuyu has started, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Dönmez said Friday. Dönmez stated that they aim to put the first unit into operation at the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in 2023. “We plan to commission the second unit in the following year,” …
