On 09 August 2017 NNSA (National Nuclear Safety Administration of China) issued official permit for the loading of nuclear fuel into the reactor of power unit No 3 of Tianwan NPP. The power unit is being constructed in the Chinese province of Jiangsu with the assistance of ASE Group of Companies. The permission for fuel …
Bowing to a campaign of pressure from Bellona and the Norwegian government, builders of Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant have finally agreed not to load its uranium fuel in the middle of St. Petersburg, a city of five million people. Officials with Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, had previously planned to fuel the controversial Akademik …
CAIRO, August 6. /TASS/. Egypt has finished negotiations with Russia on the reactors for a nuclear power plant at El Dabaa. The four basic agreements between the sides will be ready for implementation after final examination by Egypt’s State Council, or the Supreme Administrative Court, Egyptian Minister of Electricity Mohamed Shaker said on Sunday. According …
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) is urging the government to support nuclear energy use and revive the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) to strengthen the country’s manufacturing sector. Newly-appointed PNRI director Carlo Arcilla said, the rehabilitation of the 32-year-old power facility is viable and is a political decision that should …
VANCOUVER — NexGen Energy (TSX: NXE; NYSE-MKT: NXE) has unveiled its maiden mine plan for the high-profile Rook I uranium project along the southwestern edges of Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. On July 31, the company released a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) that outlines a 1,450-tonnes-per-day underground mine with a 17-year life. The study estimates initial capital expenditures totaling …
A total of ten Japanese nuclear power reactors are likely to have been restarted by the end of March 2019, according to the latest estimate by the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ). These restarts will help improve the country’s economy, energy security and environment, it says. In its Economic and Energy Outlook of Japan for …
America’s newest nuclear reactor resumed power generation Tuesday following more than four months of repairs to fix a ruptured condenser that idled the $5 billion unit only five months after it first started producing electricity. TVA President Bill Johnson said Tuesday that the Unit 2 reactor at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is back on …
South Carolina’s leading power utility decided Monday to cease construction at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station’s two reactors after spending nearly $5 billion on the project. Santee Cooper’s board of directors approved the plan to stop construction of reactor units 2 and 3. The facility represented another blow for the nuclear power industry, which has …
China and Pakistan have agreed to cooperate in uranium exploration and mining. China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said it had signed a framework agreement with the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission yesterday for technical cooperation in the exploration and development of uranium resources. China signed a similar agreement with Saudi Arabia earlier this year. Under the new agreement, …
French utility EDF has resumed operation of unit 5 at its Bugey nuclear power plant after receiving approval from the country’s nuclear safety authority. The reactor had been offline for almost two years whilst tests and repairs were carried out on its containment. Tests conducted in 2011 during the third ten-yearly inspection of the 880 …