Three U.S. senators, including the two leaders of the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee, have introduced bipartisan legislation directing the U.S. Department of Energy to establish a nuclear fuel program to strengthen domestic production. The legislation would make a priority of increasing U.S. production of low-enriched uranium and accelerating efforts to establish a high-assay, low-enriched uranium, or …
The outer dome for unit 1 of the China National Nuclear Corporation’s (CNNC) Zhangzhou nuclear power plant was successfully hoisted into place on Feb 17, in East China’s Fujian province. It marks the completion of the main structure of the first Hualong One mass construction unit, and lays a solid foundation for subsequent construction, cold functional tests and …
Czech electricity producer CEZ’s logo is seen on the company’s headquarters in Prague March 17, 2013. The prosecution in Bulgaria requested CEZ license revocation over massive regulatory breaches, local media reported. REUTERS/David W Cerny Czech utility CEZ (CEZP.PR) will start talks with bidders for a multi-billion dollar project to build a new unit at its Dukovany nuclear …
A startup company wants to build fast nuclear reactors, and the company’s CEO said Wyoming may be on the list of possible locations for its plants. The Aurora-brand reactors that Silicon Valley-based Oklo is looking to build are much smaller than the TerraPower Natrium reactor planned to replace a retiring coal plant in Kemmerer. Aurora …
For the first time since the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in 2011, an Asahi Shimbun poll has found that a majority of respondents support restarting nuclear plants. The Asahi Shimbun conducted a national telephone survey on Feb. 18-19 in which 51 percent of respondents said they are in favor …
The Estonian government has appointed Edinburgh, UK-based law company Castletown Law to advise it on law and legislation for the country’s advanced civil nuclear energy programme. Last week, Fermi Energia selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s BWRX-300 small modular reactor for potential deployment in the Baltic country by the early 2030s. Castletown said the work will …
Please follow this link to the EDF Group media release relating to the Group’s Annual Results for 2022 which were published this morning. These relate to the consolidated performance of EDF Group and include a summary of EDF’s performance in the UK. With a strong operational performance by our nuclear fleet, our overall financial performance has improved …
NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. (“NANO Nuclear”), a company emerging from the shared micro Small Modular Reactor (µSMR) and Advanced Nuclear Reactor (ANR) ambitions of a world class nuclear technical team, filled with influential and foremost nuclear experts in the field, working alongside business and industry professionals, possessing strong relationships with both government, and the private and public nuclear industries, …
The reactor internals – including a 10-metre internal shaft, a baffle and a block of protective pipes – have been delivered to the construction site of the first power unit at Kursk II in western Russia. The internals were manufactured by the Volgodonsk branch of JSC AEM-Technologies (part of the machine-building division of Rosatom – …
Nine out of the ten advanced reactor designs selected for funding under the U.S. government’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) will require advanced fuel, such as high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) and TRIstructural-ISOtropic (TRISO) particles, but there are no commercial suppliers of such fuels currently operating in the United States. U.S. uranium enrichment capability has dwindled …
