Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won the German election Sunday and is on track to take the reins of the EU’s largest economy. It’s not yet clear exactly what the new German government will look like — or how far Merz will be able to reshape German politics as he sees fit. It’s likely to be …
Workers at Doosan Enerbility’s casting and forging plant in Changwon, South Korea, manufacture components for NuScale Power’s small modular reactor (SMR) in May 2023./Doosan Enerbility South Korea finalized its 11th Basic Plan for Long-Term Electricity Supply and Demand on Feb. 19, outlining energy supply and generation strategies for 2024 through 2038. Released every two years, …
ew polling data reveals that a majority of West Australians support lifting the state’s uranium mining ban, as the global demand for the commodity continues to rise. The survey, conducted by Painted Dog Research and commissioned by the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (Amec), found that 57% of respondents were in favour of overturning the uranium mining prohibition implemented in 2017. This marks an …
Nucleon Energy is proposing projects in the Birch Hills County, and recently hosted three education sessions in the county and M.D. of Smoky River to get a response and to gauge interest from community members in the municipalities. The three sessions were held Feb. 10 at the Tangent Community Hall from 2-5 p.m. and 7-10 …
The leaching circuit at the McClean Lake mill. Credit: Orano Canada French nuclear fuels company Orano is looking to increase output of uranium from new mines in Mongolia and elsewhere to meet rising demand from the nuclear power industry and offset production from its stalled projects in Niger, said CEO Nicolas Maes. State-owned Orano has …
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in Kudankulam, India on Thursday, March 21, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Indian state power company NTPC is looking to build 30 gigawatts (GW) of nuclear power capacity over the next two decades, three sources said. “NTPC plans to lead India’s nuclear power plan just as it …
Ukraine has launched the mass assembly of nuclear fuel while planning the expansion of Khmelnytskyi NPP with American Westinghouse technology We are currently preparing a project to expand our NPP with the involvement of American business. This project will strengthen energy security not only of Ukraine but of the entire European region” — President of …
The Spanish Congress session on 12 February (Image: www.congreso.es) The Plenary Session of the Spanish Congress has approved a proposal calling for the government to implement a series of measures that would reverse the country’s decision to phase out nuclear power. Under current plans, Spain’s power reactors are all scheduled to shut by 2035. The …
Welding has been completed of the upper half of the VVER-1200 reactor vessel for El Dabaa nuclear power plant’s second unit, with Rosatom saying that new materials and welding technologies can help increase the service life of reactors to 100 years. (Image: Rosatom) The welding, at the Atommash production site in Russia, lasted for 20 …
TerraPower, a nuclear innovation company, announced today the selection of three supplier awards to support its first Natrium plant. These awards complete the procurement selection for long lead items for the United States’ first commercial advanced nuclear power plant. The Natrium Reactor Demonstration Project is currently under construction in Kemmerer, Wyoming, and is the first …
