Construction work for Bangladesh’s second nuclear power plant will start soon with the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (BAERA) granting licence to the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, said ASE Group of Companies, a part of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corp (Rosatom). India will also participate in the Bangladesh nuclear power project in construction and installation work and supply …
Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said on Tuesday it has achieved a series of significant milestones in the construction of Unit 3 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in the Al Dhafra region of Abu Dhabi. ENEC said it has successfully completed the concrete pouring, installation of the turbine generator, and the internal components of …
ANKARA, June 28 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussed speeding up construction of a nuclear power plant in the Black Sea province of Sinop in a telephone call on Thursday, a Turkish presidential source said. Ankara signed an agreement in 2013 with a Japanese-French consortium to build the …
An agreement has been signed, for construction of 6 EPR type nuclear reactors at Maharashtra’s Jaitapur, between French state-run power utility EDF and American conglomerate General Electric (GE), the companies said in a joint announcement on 26 June. The EPR is a third generation pressurised water reactor (PWR) design whose earlier vrsions are in use …
Turkey’s president said June 18 that the country will build a third nuclear power plant. During a live question-and-answer social media broadcast with Turkish youths, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey would build its own nuclear power plant after the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, to be built by Russia. “Akkuyu will meet 10 percent of our energy needs,” he said, …
Hitachi continues to search for ways to share the burdens of building a British nuclear power plant and now is sounding out the Development Bank of Japan and several Japanese power companies about taking stakes in the project, a high hurdle as many are still struggling with the heavy financial fallout from the 2011 meltdown at Fukushima. …
South Korea’s nuclear safety agency on Monday approved the restart of a nuclear power plant that was shut down five months ago. The Nuclear Safety and Security Commission made the decision after completing planned maintenance of the Shin-Kori No. 3 reactor near the southern port city of Busan, said Lee Enu-hong, an official of the …
The Turkish government will likely build the country’s third nuclear energy plant in Thrace, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak has said. “The first phase of the Akkuyu [nuclear plant] will be put into operation in 2023. The location of the third one is almost determined. It will most probably be the Thrace region …
HELSINKI, June 13 (Reuters) – The start of regular power production at Finland’s biggest nuclear reactor, Olkiluoto 3, will be pushed back another four months to September 2019, owner Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) said on Wednesday, the latest in a decade of delays. The project in western Finland, built by a consortium led by French state-owned …
The world’s biggest nuclear plant construction company, China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN), expects to get more reactor approvals in the second half, according to its chairman He Yu. “I think new reactor approvals will come in the second half or a little later, as part of our high quality and safety first national approach …
