Cold functional tests have been completed at unit 1 of the San’ao nuclear power plant in China’s Zhejiang province, China General Nuclear has announced. The unit is the first of six HPR1000s (Hualong Ones) planned at the site. Cold functional tests are carried out to confirm whether components and systems important to safety are properly …
Niger wants Russian firms to invest in uranium and other natural resource production, its mining minister said on Wednesday, amid an ongoing dispute with former colonial master France. French nuclear group Orano halted uranium output in Niger last month as relations soured with the military junta that seized power in July 2023. “We have already …
At the COP29 UN climate change conference taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, six more countries – El Salvador, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Nigeria and Turkey – have added their support for the tripling of global nuclear energy capacity by 2050. During COP28 – held in Dubai, UAE, in December last year – 25 countries backed a …
President Joe Biden’s administration is setting out plans for the US to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050, with demand climbing for the technology as a round-the-clock source of carbon-free power. President Joe Biden’s administration is setting out plans for the US to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050, with demand climbing for the technology …
“You’re going to see this kind of burst of activity that will be signing contracts that will come to reality in ’27, ’28, ’29, when we see acceleration of load growth,” said Duke Energy’s Brian Savoy. Duke Energy signed agreements in the third quarter of this year to connect 2 GW of new data centers, and anticipates …
Chugoku Electric Power Co. notified the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Monday that it plans to restart the No. 2 reactor at its Shimane nuclear power plant in western Japan on Dec. 7. The Shimane No. 2 unit will be the second boiling water reactor, after the No. 2 unit at Tohoku Electric Power Co.’s Onagawa …
Donald Trump enacted pro-nuclear policies during his first term and supported an “all-of-the-above” energy policy during the campaign, but some advocates fear a “divide between words and actions.” President-elect Donald Trump in August vowed to “approve new drilling, new pipelines, new refineries, new power plants [and] new reactors” on “day one” of his administration. But Trump has …
Hainan Nuclear Power Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), signed the world’s first capacity-building execution deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the construction of small modular reactors (SMRs) on the sidelines of an international conference on SMRs and their applications. The international conference on SMRs and their …
Lawmakers of Germany’s largest opposition party alliance have called for an expert assessment of whether recently decommissioned nuclear power plants could be reactivated. In the “Energy Agenda” policy paper, conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) politicians outline their energy policy priorities for the country’s future, ahead of the next federal election, which …
There’s a big obstacle, though: Viktor Orbán. There’s renewed European Union momentum to kick Russia’s nuclear sector out of the bloc and strip Moscow of one of its remaining holds over Europe’s energy supplies — if Viktor Orbán will allow it. In Brussels, the European Commission, the EU’s executive, has pledged to explore whether the EU should …
