SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Yonhap) — South Korea is eyeing Saudi Arabia’s first nuclear power plant project, hoping to export its nuclear technology following a 2009 deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the government said Tuesday. Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude exporter, is set to announce a plan to build two nuclear reactors to …
VIENNA, 19 September (BelTA) – The preparation of the agreement to supply nuclear fuel to the Belarusian nuclear power plant is at the final stage, Belarusian Deputy Minister Mikhail Mikhadyuk told the media on the sidelines of the 61st session of the IAEA General Conference, BelTA has learned. “We are drafting an supplementary agreement to …
The second 1,000 MW nuclear power unit at Kudankulam is expected to restart power generation on October 7, the Power System Operation Corporation Ltd (Posoco) saod. The mega nuclear power plant was shut down on August 4, due to hydrogen concentration in the stator. The unit was earlier expected to restart generation on September 4. …
FUZHOU, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — A fourth unit of the Fuqing branch of China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) began commercial operations on Sunday in east China’s Fujian Province. The China-designed No. 4 unit brings the total installed capacity of the project to 4.35 million kw. The first unit was put into use in 2014. The …
HELSINKI, Sept 18 (Reuters) – Finnish-Russian nuclear power company Fennovoima said on Monday it would likely get the construction licence for its reactor project in 2019, a year later than originally planned. Fennovoima said design work by Rosatom – the Russian state-owned company due to supply the plant in western Finland and which also holds …
TOKYO — Japan’s government is mulling plans to export next-generation nuclear reactors that promise a greater degree of safety, with Poland lined up as the probable first destination. The move, which would involve high temperature gas reactors, or HTGRs, is part of the government’s infrastructure export strategy. Poland, which is turning to nuclear power as …
KazAtomProm is making progress in its transition to become a market-led, flexible supplier, the company’s Chief Commercial Officer Riaz Rizvi said today at the World Nuclear Association’s Symposium. The company is transforming its approaches to both production and marketing. Uranium is not alone among extractive industries that are currently experiencing difficult market conditions, Rizvi said. Most …
Russia’s Rosatom expects to sell a 49 percent stake in its Turkish nuclear project to a consortium of Turkish companies by the end of the year, and aims to start construction of the Akkuyu plant by the end of March, a company executive said. Kirill Komarov, Rosatom’s first deputy chief executive for corporate development and …
The nation’s nuclear watchdog gave conditional approval Sept. 13 to Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s application to resume operations of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant. It marks the first time that reactors operated by TEPCO, which manages the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, have passed more stringent reactor regulations imposed by the Nuclear Regulation Authority after …
Japan’s nuclear policy-setting Atomic Energy Commission has issued a report calling for nuclear power to remain a key component of the country’s energy mix despite broad public support for a less nuclear-reliant society. By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s nuclear policy-setting Atomic Energy Commission called Thursday for nuclear power to remain a …