A study on the employment generated by the nuclear energy industry has been published by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Some 200,000 job-years of employment are created by each gigawatt of nuclear capacity constructed, it suggests. “The nuclear energy sector employs a considerable workforce around the world, …
France may keep the door open for new nuclear reactors in the 2020s if they prove to be cost-competitive, with a leaked government document setting a Eur60-70/MWh average cost range for the second generation EPR. The draft dossier, published by French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche, calls for a strategy paper by mid-2021 with a …
Producer buying appears to be becoming more urgent as spot uranium hits a two and a half year high. -Producer buying continues -Prices continue to rise -Utilities weighing up the situation By Greg Peel Producers of uranium again moved into the spot market early last week, prompting sellers to back off. Producers are meant to …
Russia offers cooperation in respect of construction of floating nuclear thermal power plants (FNTPP) to Indonesia, Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said on Friday at the meeting of the bilateral intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation. “Cooperation in the sphere of engineering and construction of high-technology vessels and high-speed vessels is of …
Plans to make small nuclear reactors in Sheffield could receive government support, business secretary Greg Clark said, but its backers would have to demonstrate the electricity they produced was competitively priced. Mr Clark said he was aware of a Sheffield University-led project to start manufacturing equipment for reactors, with the aim for SMRs to be …
France’s EDF reconnected its 1.5 GW Chooz-1 nuclear reactor back to the national electricity grid on Friday, around two weeks after the unit was taken offline due to concerns over water flow thresholds of the river Meuse. Nuclear power plant operator EDF on Sunday said reactor-1 at its Chooz nuclear station ramped up to maximum …
Unit 4 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China’s Jiangsu province has been connected to the electricity grid, bringing global nuclear generating capacity to over 400 GWe for the first time. Tianwan Phase I – units 1 and 2 – was constructed under a 1992 cooperation agreement between China and Russia. First concrete was …
Shikoku Electric Power Co. on Saturday restarted a reactor at the Ikata nuclear power plant in western Japan after a suspension of nearly one year due to a high court order. The restart of the No. 3 unit at the plant in the town of Ikata in Ehime Prefecture, announced by the power company after …
A group of roughly three dozen scientists and other energy experts are claiming a seminal United Nations report on climate change is biased against nuclear power. Why it matters: A global entity like the UN climate panel can have a big impact on the acceptance of nuclear power, as calls to address climate change intensify and …
Bulgaria may launch a tender to choose a strategic investor for its Belene nuclear power project by the end of the year if the parliament gives its approval to the plan, Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said on Friday. The Balkan country lifted a six-year ban on a 2,000 megawatt (MW) plant at Belene in June …