Hokkaido Governor Naomichi Suzuki will announce his intention at a prefectural assembly meeting on Friday to accept the restart of the No. 3 reactor at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.’s Tomari nuclear plant in the northern Japan prefecture, it was learned Tuesday. Suzuki plans to explain that restarting the reactor is the only realistic choice, given …
Canada and India are close to finalising an export agreement in a deal valued at about US$2.8 billion, the Globe and Mail reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal for Canada to ship uranium to India would run for 10 years if finalised, the report said, adding that uranium would be …
The United States on Friday issued a Russia-related general license allowing certain transactions with the Paks II civil nuclear power plant project in Hungary, according to the Treasury Department website. The license will allow transactions linked to the nuclear power plant project involving some Russian banks, including Gazprombank, VTB Bank, and the Russian central bank, …
India is preparing to open the door for importing nuclear power reactors from American private companies, marking a major policy shift by the Narendra Modi-led government. After increasing crude oil imports from the US and announcing large-scale LPG purchases, New Delhi is now moving towards signing a contract to import missile systems — and the …
The Zhangzhou Nuclear Power Plant in east China’s Fujian Province – the world’s largest base employing the Hualong One reactor – connected its Unit 2 to the grid for the first time on November 22, marking a major step forward in the mass construction of China’s domestically developed third-generation reactor. The plant is designed to …
Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi on Friday agreed to the restart of a nuclear reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima accident, one of the world’s worst nuclear crises. Hanazumi made the decision even as he acknowledged that residents of the Sea …
Efforts to revive a scandal-scarred South Carolina nuclear power project got a major boost from the Trump administration as federal officials announced an $80 billion deal to jump-start new nuclear construction in the U.S. Under the agreement, which was announced Oct. 28, Westinghouse and its corporate owners, Brookfield Asset Management and Cameco, will receive federal …
Lithuania’s Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, fully shut down since 2010, attempted to sell its unused nuclear fuel to France and Russia while the country was searching for a site for a future deep geological repository. Both attempts were unsuccessful, Caliber.Az reports, citing LRT.lt, the official news portal of Lithuania’s public broadcaster. According to Patricija Ceiko, adviser on nuclear energy …
On Wednesday, November 19 2025, Egypt has signed a nuclear fuel purchase order and a broad cooperation agreement with Russia’s State-owned Rosatom for the country’s first nuclear power facility at El-Dabaa, the Egyptian Cabinet announced. The fuel order covers the first reactor core, signalling readiness for further project development, while the cooperation agreement includes joint …
Niigata prefecture governor expected to approve Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant as early as Friday, which will become operational by March 2026, marking 1st reopening of nuclear plant since Fukushima disaster in 2011 ISTANBUL Japan is set to restart the world’s largest nuclear power plant, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in central Niigata prefecture, Nikkei Asia …
