Slovakia currently imports uranium from Russia’s TVEL company – a subsidiary of state-owned giant Rosatom – which is the biggest fuel supplier for VVER-440 type reactors. Uranium mining in the country’s east could be a solution to cutting dependency on Russia’s nuclear fuel supplies, Economy Minister Richard Sulík has said. Slovakia currently imports uranium from …
An overnight capital cost of USD2900 per kilowatt for the next AP1000 series in the USA is achievable, according to an independent assessment by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems. The report considers the cost in the context of the experience realised at the Vogtle site in Georgia, where two …
The construction of two new reactors at each of the Sanmen, Haiyang and Lufeng nuclear power plant sites in China has been approved by the country’s State Council. The approvals are for Sanmen units 3 and 4, Haiyang 3 and 4 and units 5 and 6 of the Lufeng plant. At a 20 April executive …
Filter separators at the Gazprom PJSC Slavyanskaya compressor station, the starting point of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, in Ust-Luga, Russia, on Jan. 28, 2021. Efforts to move away from Russian oil and gas have added momentum to a push for alternative energy sources including nuclear. The world’s transition away from fossil energy has …
The new nuclear plant in Argentina will be a 35-hectare site located in the same complex as Atucha I, pictured, and Atucha II, in Zárate, about 100 km north of Buenos Aires (Image: Nucleoeléctrica) José Luis Antúnez, president of Nucleoeléctrica, talks of the next steps for the industry, and the construction of a new plant …
As the earth warms at a daunting pace and the war in Ukraine sends gas and oil prices skyrocketing, nuclear power is starting to look like a much more appealing option. Even some passionate antinuclear activists have come around, and now view the dangers of fossil fuels as much more worrisome than issues related to …
April 20, 2022 – Kairos Power has assembled leading North American utilities and generating companies to launch an advanced nuclear development consortium named Kairos Power Operations, Manufacturing and Development Alliance (Kairos Power-OMADA) to advance the development of the company’s advanced fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (KP-FHR) technology. Current member corporations include: Bruce Power, Canada’s only private sector nuclear …
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is looking to tap a newly created federal nuclear power plant bailout fund to keep Palisades Nuclear Plant open. The Entergy Corp.-owned, 800-megawatt reactor five miles south of South Haven is scheduled to retire for good at the end of May. The shutdown removes a substantial power source from the grid, as Palisades …
The Biden administration is launching a $6 billion effort to save nuclear power plants at risk of closing, citing the need to continue nuclear energy as a carbon-free source of power that helps to combat climate change. A certification and bidding process opened on Tuesday for a civil nuclear credit program that is intended to …
On April 18, the second unit of HPR1000 overseas, K3 unit in Karachi, Pakistan, passed the temporary acceptance. By this time, the two units of the first overseas project of HPR1000 are in operation. The construction of HPR1000 Projects in Pakistan epitomizes the deepening comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between China and Pakistan in the New Era, and …
