Russia has today connected unit 1 of the Leningrad Phase II nuclear power plant to the grid and it has started producing its first power, state nuclear corporation Rosatom has announced. The VVER 1200 reactor was brought to the minimum controllable power level on 6 February. “The new, super-powerful Leningrad power unit has begun to …
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s first nuclear power plant is likely to miss its 2023 target start-up date as Russian builder Rosatom struggles to find local partners, two people familiar with the matter said. The $20 billion project is part of President Tayyip Erdogan’s “2023 vision” marking 100 years since the founding of modern Turkey. Rosatom …
BEIJING, March 7 (Reuters) – China plans to start construction on six to eight nuclear reactors this year and raise its total nuclear generating capacity by as much as 6 gigawatts, the country’s energy administration said on Wednesday. The National Energy Administration said China also aimed to complete two long-delayed, foreign-designed third-generation reactor projects this …
PARIS, March 7 (Reuters) – French state controlled utility EDF said on Wednesday that its nuclear power output rose 8 percent year-on-year in February to 36.4 terrawatt-hour (TWh) compared with the same month a year ago. EDF, which operates France’s 58 nuclear reactors, said its production was penalised last year by unplanned outages due to …
Nuclear energy has faced serious challenges in recent years because of several factors: competition from low gas prices, subsidised renewables and slow growth in electricity demand in certain markets. But because of several powerful forces we are seeing signs that this year nuclear energy will come roaring back, writes Jarret Adams. Several nuclear plants have …
The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) will achieve a ten-fold rise in uranium production in three phases by 2031-32, the government today informed the Lok Sabha. In a written response to a question in the Lower House, Jitendra Singh, the Union minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office that directly looks after the DAE, …
Swiss utility Axpo has received regulatory approval to bring unit 1 of the Beznau nuclear power plant (KKB) back into service this month after evidence it submitted last December proved aluminium oxide inclusions in the reactor pressure vessel do not affect the unit’s safety. The RPV was manufactured in the Creusot Forge in France in …
The Russian state-owned corporation, Rosatom, plans to start building of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey in April 2018. To start the construction are required 101 licenses are required, while the company already received 90 of them. “At the beginning of April, the first concrete is planned to be poured out on the ground …
In 1981, the Cigar Lake uranium deposit was discovered in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. A monster in its day, eventually sizing up at 290MM lbs. of U3O8 at a mine grade of 15%! Seven years later and 45 km (28 miles) away the McArthur River deposit was found, dwarfing Cigar with its 500MM lbs. of U3O8 …
Taipei, March 5 (CNA) Taiwan Power Co.’s (Taipower’s) application to restart the second reactor at its No. 2 nuclear plant in New Taipei’s Wanli District has gained approval from the Atomic Energy Council (AEC) following a 30-day safety review, according to the results of the AEC safety review released Monday. Taipower’s application will now proceed …