Westinghouse (the United States) is ready to fully provide all Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPP) with nuclear fuel, the press service of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has reported, citing the company representatives during a meeting with Energy Minister Ihor Nasalyk. The company assured about the availability of all the technical and logistic …
In a festive signing ceremony in Mumbai on November 21, Maharashtra’s Chief Minister Mr. Devendra Fadnavis hosted the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Holtec Asia to establish a manufacturing facility that would give India autonomous capability to produce systems and components to support the country’s planned expansion of nuclear generation. While the plant, …
French energy group EDF and Nawah Energy have signed a deal to operate and maintain the delayed Barakah power plant, which will be the first nuclear energy plant in the Arab world. The $24.4 billion Barakah power plant in the United Arab Emirates is the world’s largest nuclear project under construction but has been marred …
The land acquisition process for the 9900 MW nuclear power plant in Jaitapur, about 600 kilometres from here, has been completed, Maharashtra Energy Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said. In a written reply to a question by Congress MLC Anant Gadgil in the Maharashtra Legislative Council Thursday, Bawankule added the state government was assisting the Centre to …
Detailed plans for a new nuclear power plant including road improvements, park and ride sites and worker accommodation will be put to the public next year. EDF Energy has announced the third consultation on its plans for Sizewell C on the Suffolk coast will start on 4 January. The £16bn plant would be built next …
The construction of a new power unit at the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in China will begin in 2021, according to Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom. It’s the biggest joint NPP project between the two nations. Together with the Chinese partners, we have already built four power units at this site and thus have …
Toshiba plans to wind up its UK nuclear business after failing to find a buyer, dealing a potentially fatal blow to plans for a new nuclear power station in Cumbria. Its NuGen division was behind the development of the Moorside project. Toshiba’s decision will dent the UK’s plans to develop new nuclear power stations. Unions …
A Westinghouse-designed AP1000 nuclear reactor on China’s east coast is ready to go into commercial operation after completing a test run, the China National Nuclear Power Corp (CNNP) said. The second unit at Sanmen in Zhejiang province will be the third AP1000 reactor to go into commercial operation in China. It completed a 168-hour full-power …
Five groups are considering whether to partner with Brazil’s state-controlled Eletronuclear to resume construction of nuclear power plant Angra III, already partially built by the government, newspaper Valor Econômico reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified sources. The foreign companies’ interest in the venture grew after a government agency raised the price of the energy produced at …
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman launched a project on Monday to build the kingdom’s first nuclear reactor. Described as a low-energy nuclear research reactor by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, the project is among seven other strategic developments which the prince launched during a visit to King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, a …