The official start of the construction of first Turkish nuclear power plant Akkuyu will be the first week of April, according to the country’s Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım. The ceremony will be attended by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The plans foresee the construction of a four PWR reactors with …
Krzysztof Tchórzewski, Poland’s Minister of Energy, has said that he wants a decision on the construction of a nuclear power plant to be taken as quickly as possible. His statement comes as the Polish energy industry is beginning to feel the pressure of the country’s race against time to reduce its CO2 emissions. “We need …
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed and Moon Jae-in, President of Korea, today attended a celebration to mark the completion of the UAE’s first nuclear reactor with a visit to the Barakah power plant. The plant is the first in the Arab world, and is part of the UAE’s effort to curb its reliance on fossil fuels and …
The operator of the first-of-a-kind EPR reactor nearing start-up in Finland has shown a commitment to safety, an expert team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has concluded. The team also identified areas for further enhancements as Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) prepares to put Olkiluoto unit 3 online later this year. A Pre-Operational Safety …
Asia needs nuclear energy to meet its economic, energy and environmental goals, but such plans are still in the development phase in the South East region of the continent, Agneta Rising, director general of World Nuclear Association, said today. Addressing delegates at the Sustainable Energy Technology Asia 2018 conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Rising noted that nuclear power …
The opening of the United Arab Emirates’ first nuclear reactor, due to open last year, has been pushed back to 2019 due to training delays, two sources told Reuters. $24.4bn Barakah power plant is the world’s largest nuclear project under construction and will be the first in the Arab world. “The planning has slipped and the …
The reactor pressure vessel for unit 5 of the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant has been delivered to the construction site in China’s Liaoning province. Installation of the component began immediately. The vessel – measuring 13 meters in height, 4m in diameter and weighing over 300 tonnes – arrived by ship at the Hongyanhe site on …
Rosatom in a March 21 statement said changes to the ownership group involved with Turkey’s first nuclear power plant should not further delay construction of the facility, which has struggled with setbacks since the Russian nuclear corporation was awarded the construction contract in 2010. The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (Figure 1) is a planned 4,800-MW …
With the world’s second-biggest proven reserves of oil, Saudi Arabia seems an unlikely aspirant to the nuclear-energy club. Yet the largest oil exporter plans to build at least 16 nuclear reactors over the next 25 years at a cost of more than $80 billion. The Saudis see atomic energy as a way to ease their dependence on finite fossil …
A number of European experts have visited Belarus as part of the peer review of results of stress tests of the Belarusian nuclear power plant. The peer review final report will be made available to the general public in July 2018, the press service of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry told BelTA. The authorized European experts …