South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries will undertake a joint research and development project with the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), for the first modern exploration of nuclear-powered ships. Under the strategic cooperative agreement, they plan to explore the opportunities to use nuclear power as a solution for carbon-neutral shipping. There was great interest …
The construction of a 300 MW nuclear power unit with an innovative lead coolant BREST-OD-300 fast reactor has begun at the site of the Siberian Chemical Combine (an enterprise of TVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM) in Seversk, Russia’s Tomsk region. The event was attended by Tomsk regional governor Sergei Zhvachkin, ROSATOM Director General Alexey Likhachev, …
SHINE Medical Technologies of the USA has selected the municipality of Veendam in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands, as the location of its European medical isotope production facility. The company is currently building its first production facility, using its transformational non-reactor technology, in Janesville, Wisconsin. SHINE said Veendam was selected following a year-long search …
Work on Tianwan units 7 and 8 and Xudabao units 3 and 4 was launched today at a ceremony attended via video-link by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The four VVER-1200 reactors are part of a series of strategic agreements Russia and China signed in 2018. According to a Kremlin statement, …
French company EDF has submitted to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) its binding techno-commercial offer to build six EPRs at Jaitapur in Maharashtra. The offer is the culmination of work that began with the 2018 signature of an agreement between the two companies and paves the way for discussions towards a binding framework …
The Czech Industry Ministry has decided to invite four bidders including Russia to pre-qualify for a tender to build a new nuclear power plant, but a final decision on who will be allowed to bid will be made after an October election, it said on Thursday. The plan to build a new 1,200 megawatt (MW) …
It serves as a critical support link powering the fuel needs of the country’s nuclear power programme Nuclear Fuel Complex is in the process of expediting the implementation of the Rs 4,200 crore second facility coming up at Kota in Rajasthan. The Hyderabad-based strategic PSU serves as a critical support link powering the fuel needs …
Poland’s central bank will help the state to obtain 51 percent of the funds necessary to build the country’s first NPP, the bank’s governor has told the “Sieci” weekly. Adam Glapinski, governor of the National Bank of Poland, told the weekly on Monday: “At the start, let the Americans build six nuclear power plants here… …
South Korea’s state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp. (Kepco) said Monday it has started a process to insert fuel rods into the second reactor in the Barakah nuclear plant of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Kepco and the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corp. (ENEC) said they kicked off the process starting last week. South Korea completed …
Poland is considering the site of Europe’s largest coal-fired power station as a location for a nuclear plant, part of Warsaw’s ambitious reactor new-build programme, Piotr Naimski, secretary of state for strategic energy infrastructure, told local RMF FM radio. Mr Naimski said Poland’s first two or three units will be built at one of two …
