Unit 3 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China’s Jiangsu province today attained a sustained chain reaction for the first time. The Russian-supplied VVER-1000 is scheduled to enter commercial operation next year. Following approval to load fuel into the unit by China’s National Nuclear Safety Administration on 9 August, the process to load a …
The Egyptian presidency has studied the possibility of signing the contracts for Dabaa nuclear power plant along with the opening ceremony of opening new Alamein city in October 2017, anonymous sources in the Egyptian government said on Wednesday. The sources added that the ministries of Housing and Investment will celebrate with the 75th anniversary of …
The World Nuclear Association has welcomed the start of general construction work at the site of the planned Akkuyu nuclear power plant, following confirmation by Alexey Likhachov, director-general of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom. Speaking to journalists last week at the 61st regular session of the International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference in Vienna, …
UAE energy minister Suhail al-Mazroui said on Monday the country’s first nuclear reactor would “definitely” be operational by next year. Speaking at an event in Abu Dhabi, al-Mazroui said the first nuclear reactor was 96 percent complete. The UAE is looking to nuclear energy to contribute around 25 percent to its clean energy mix by …
ST. PETERSBURG, September 21. /TASS/. China presented an offer to Rosatom on a site to build a new nuclear power plant (NPP) of the Russian design, Chief Executive Officer of the Russian state-owned nuclear corporation Alexei Likhachev told reporters on Thursday. “The site is nominated by the Chinese party; we received [the offer on the …
FUZHOU, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — A fourth unit of the Fuqing branch of China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) began commercial operations on Sunday in east China’s Fujian Province. The China-designed No. 4 unit brings the total installed capacity of the project to 4.35 million kw. The first unit was put into use in 2014. The …
HELSINKI, Sept 18 (Reuters) – Finnish-Russian nuclear power company Fennovoima said on Monday it would likely get the construction licence for its reactor project in 2019, a year later than originally planned. Fennovoima said design work by Rosatom – the Russian state-owned company due to supply the plant in western Finland and which also holds …
Russia’s Rosatom expects to sell a 49 percent stake in its Turkish nuclear project to a consortium of Turkish companies by the end of the year, and aims to start construction of the Akkuyu plant by the end of March, a company executive said. Kirill Komarov, Rosatom’s first deputy chief executive for corporate development and …
Saudi Arabia is expected to launch a tender process for its first nuclear reactors as early as next month and will reach out to potential vendors from countries including South Korea, France and China, industry sources said. The world’s top oil exporter wants to start construction next year on two plants with a total capacity …
The first of three steam generators has been installed at Karachi unit 2. The unit is the first of two Chinese-designed Hualong One nuclear power reactors being constructed at the site in Pakistan. The operation to raise the steam generator – some 21 meters in length and weighing about 365 tonnes – over the reactor …
