CAIRO, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Egypt expects to finalise contracts before the end of 2017 for its first nuclear power plant with 4,800 megawatt (MW) capacity, Electricity Minister Mohamed Shaker said on Tuesday. Egypt signed an agreement in November 2015 for Russia to finance building and operating the plant. Egypt’s official gazette said last year …
ABU DHABI – Pakistan plans to build at least three to four big reactors as it targets nuclear power capacity of 8,800 megawatts (MW) by 2030, the country’s atomic energy commission chairman said. Pakistan has five small reactors in operation with combined capacity of just over 1300 MW. The last one in the four-reactor Chashma …
The main construction work of the Rooppur nuclear power plant on the banks of the river Padma has been delayed for the third time. It had been rescheduled to begin this month. Project director of Rooppur nuclear power plant Shawkat Akbar informed to reporters of the matter after a meeting at the Rooppur nuclear power plant construction …
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said on Sunday the government will continue to phase out nuclear-generated electricity, following a public opinion survey that dealt a blow to his plans to do so. “We will completely stop all plans for the construction of new nuclear reactors like the government previously stated,” Moon said …
MOSCOW, October 20 – Rosatom has obtained the first license on construction of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the first nuclear power plant in Turkey, Russia’s nuclear corporation reported Friday. “The limited construction permit allows to launch construction and assembly operations at all sites of the nuclear power plant, excluding the buildings and facilities that are …
South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s support of a government panel to resume building two stalled nuclear reactors sent shares of engineering and construction companies surging. The recommendation released Friday on the $7.5 billion project came after a nine-member committee gathered public opinion over the past three months about the permanent suspension of the Shin Kori …
OSTROVETS, 12 October (BelTA) – The loading of nuclear fuel into the first power-generating unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant is supposed to begin in summer 2019, BelTA learned from Alexander Kanyuka, Head of the Reactor Department of the state enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant, on 12 October. “We intend to get nuclear fuel …
* Olkiluoto EPR to start May 2019, Flamanville Dec 2019 * EDF keeps 10.5 bln euros budget for Flamanville * Both reactors years behind schedule, billions over budget (Adds detail and background) PARIS, Oct 9 (Reuters) – French state-controlled power group EDF confirmed that it expected its long-delayed nuclear reactor in Flamanville, northern France, to …
HELSINKI (Reuters) – The start of regular power production at Finland’s biggest nuclear reactor Olkiluoto 3 will be pushed back another five months to May 2019, owner Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) said on Monday, the latest in a decade of delays. The project in western Finland, built by a consortium led by French state-owned nuclear group …
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Russian company Rosatom’s 12.5 billion euro (11.25 billion pounds) project to build two nuclear reactors in Hungary has been delayed by at least a year, Hungarian authorities said. Hungarian minister Janos Suli told a conference on Thursday that the Paks nuclear project would be delayed by 22 months because of European Union …
