Tohoku Electric Power Co. said Thursday it will scrap the idled No. 1 unit at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture, more than 30 years after it started operations. The company cited difficulties in taking additional safety measures as well as the relatively small output of the reactor that made it unprofitable. Tohoku …
Unit 1 of India’s Kaiga nuclear power plant has completed its 895th day of continuous operation, a new world record for continuous operation of a pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR) and the second-longest for a nuclear power reactor of any type. The 220 MWe Indian-designed and domestically fuelled reactor has now operated without a break …
Hours after pro-nuclear activists from Europe and the United States rallied in Germany to protest that nation’s replacement of nuclear plants with fossil fuels, Taiwan’s electoral commission gave the green light to a November referendum on the future of nuclear power “We are overjoyed,” said Taiwanese pro-nuclear leader, Shih-hsiu Huang. “If we win, we will immediately …
The Fukushima Daiichi accident shaped not only Japanese but also Chinese public opinion, and dramatically altered Beijing’s plans for the expansion of its own nuclear energy program. Seven years later, however, China may be returning to ambitious plans for its nuclear future. In 2010, China laid out its roadmap to the future of nuclear power …
Kazakhstan plans to produce a total of 21,600 mt of uranium in 2018, a decrease of almost 20% compared with the previously forecast 27,000 mt, Riaz Rizvi, Kazatomprom’s chief commercial officer said in an interview. Rizvi said the company also planned to implement similar production cuts of around 20% in 2019 and 2020. Kazatomprom has …
Unit 1 of the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China’s Shandong province has completed 168 hours of full-power continuous operation. The unit is now deemed to be the second AP1000 reactor to enter commercial operation. Haiyang 1 completed the full-power demonstration test run at 10.12pm yesterday, State Power Investment Corporation has announced. The reactor, it …
Listing in London is an “obvious choice”, senior executives from Kazatomprom, the world’s largest uranium producer, have said. Galymzhan Pirmatov, chief executive of the company which produces a fifth of the world’s uranium, told City A.M. it is pursuing a mid-November double listing in London and Kazakh capital Astana. He added: “To us London was an obvious …
Australia’s energy crisis has deepened, with everyday families currently paying prices more expensive than just about anywhere in the world. Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week made it one of his government’s priorities to lower our bills. But to do so, he says he may have to take provocative action, including overturning the current ban …
Hitachi Ltd. and General Electric Co. (GE) of the United States are planning to jointly develop a new type of small nuclear reactor, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. They will be small modular reactors, a next-generation type being developed in the United States and other countries. The two companies aim to start commercial use of …
The initial public offering of the world’s largest oil producer Saudi Aramco may be on the back burner, but the IPO of its uranium-market equivalent is full steam ahead. Kazatomprom, the world’s No. 1 producer of the nuclear fuel, on Monday said it would list as much as 25 percent of its equity in London and the …
