Regulators weigh final safety checks as KHNP targets late‑March restart for Kori Unit 2 Kori Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 has entered the final procedures for restart after its continued operation was approved. Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) said it has completed more than 100 facility upgrades, including replacing life-expired equipment and reinforcing …
President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi are set to announce a nuclear power project in the southern US, the latest initiative stemming from an investment fund the countries established as part of a trade pact. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi are set to announce a nuclear power project …
Data centers, filled with thousands of servers, power our digital lives. (Image by Shutterstock.) Nuclear energy could provide steady, 24/7 electricity Multi-lab effort finds nuclear energy timely and attractive to power data centers with reliable electricity. Every email sent, movie streamed or app used depends on data centers. These facilities, filled with thousands of servers, …
Vietnam’s Ambassador to France Trinh Duc Hai on March 16 received Frédéric Cheneau, Vice President in charge of international business development at Assystem, to discuss cooperation in nuclear power. Vietnamese Ambassador to France Trinh Duc Hai discusses cooperation in nuclear power with Frédéric Cheneau, Vice President in charge of international business development at Assystem. (Photo: …
AtkinsRéalis Group Inc. (TSX: ATRL), a world-class engineering services and nuclear company with offices around the world, today announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA to explore the integration of NVIDIA’s technologies including Omniverse libraries and accelerated compute for the development and deployment of nuclear powered, large-scale AI factories. These technologies, along with OpenUSD, provide AtkinsRéalis …
The Indo-Pacific Energy Security Ministerial Business Forum was held in Tokyo on March 14–15, bringing together energy ministers and representatives from governments and companies from 16 countries across the Indo-Pacific region. The event was jointly hosted by Japan and the United States. Participants included U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is encouraging existing or potential applicants for new reactor-related activities to share planning information through fiscal year 2028. NRC staff published the Regulatory Issue Summary so the agency can best understand industry interest in order to most effectively set budgets for licensing reviews and inspection support needed to safely enable new …
South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party said on Monday that the government will lift limits on coal-fired power generation capacity and raise nuclear power plant utilization to as high as 80% as part of an energy response to the Middle East crisis. Lawmakers in the party’s Middle East crisis economic response task force said in a briefing the measures are …
Unit 1 of the San’ao nuclear power plant has begun supplying electricity to the grid for the first time, China General Nuclear announced. The unit is the first of six Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors planned for the site in Zhejiang province. “At 17:28 on 12 March, the first Hualong One nuclear power unit in the …
Rwanda plans to invest up to $6 billion in nuclear power plants as part of its strategy to secure reliable electricity and support long-term economic growth, President Paul Kagame said on Tuesday. Rwanda plans to invest up to $6 billion in nuclear power plants to secure reliable electricity for economic growth. President Paul Kagame announced …