A 500-member jury was formed Monday to deliberate on President Moon Jae-in’s proposal to scrap the construction of two atomic power reactors in the southeastern city of Ulsan to lessen the country’s dependence on nuclear energy, officials said. The members were selected from a pool of 5,981 people who expressed willingness to take part in …
The dome has been installed upon the containment building of unit 6 at the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in China’s Liaoning province. The milestone marks the end of major civil engineering works at the unit. The operation to install the containment dome – measuring 37 metres in diameter and 11m in height and weighing about …
The second AP1000 unit under construction at the Sanmen site in China’s Zhejiang province has completed cold hydrostatic testing of its primary circuit. The tests are an important step in the commissioning of new units. Cold hydrostatic testing involves filling the reactor’s primary circuit with water, which is circulated at high pressure by the reactor …
KRYNICA ZDROJ, Poland, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Coal-dependent Poland aims to build its first nuclear power plant by 2029 to reduce carbon emissions, its energy minister said on Wednesday, a little later than envisaged last year. Warsaw announced the project in 2009, but hit numerous delays due to falling power prices and Japan’s 2011 Fukushima …
Egypt has signed a deal to use Russian investment to develop the country’s first nuclear power plant at Dabaa, on the Mediterranean coast. The Associated Press reports that the agreement was signed on Monday after two years of negotiations. The reports came after Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China, where they were …
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – French energy giant EDF is making progress in talks to sell India six nuclear reactors, said its chief executive on Thursday, with the stalled projects of rivals making him more confident a contract could be agreed sooner than first expected. CEO Jean-Bernard Lévy declined to commit to a timeline for when …
The Brazilian president Michael Termer is to look to Chinese financial and sector expertise to complete the country’s third nuclear power plant. The Angra 3 plant’s construction was commenced in 1984, but has for various reasons been delayed over the last three decades. The Brazilian nuclear energy company Eletronuclear will sign a cooperation agreement with China National …
Russian President Vladimir Putin says work on expanding Hungary’s only nuclear power plant may begin early next year. “Work at the [Paks] construction site may start already at the beginning of the next year,” Putin told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on August 28 during a visit to Hungary’s capital, Budapest. During a visit to …
Russia hopes to finalize all necessary licenses and permits for Akkuyu, Turkey’s first nuclear plant, by the end of the year, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak has said. Contracting parties are working to obtain the last of the licenses for Akkuyu, Novak told state-run Anadolu Agency over the Aug. 19-20 weekend. Russia’s Rosatom and Turkish consortium Cengiz-Kolin-Kalyon …
The first steam generator has been placed in the containment of Vogtle unit 3, the first major lift carried out since Southern Nuclear took charge of oversight activities at the AP1000 construction site in Georgia. Each of the two AP1000s under construction at the project to expand the existing Vogtle nuclear power plant near Waynesboro …
