Federal regulators Wednesday rejected a request from two environmental groups to immediately shut down one of two reactors at California’s last nuclear power plant. Friends of the Earth and Mothers for Peace said in a petition filed last month with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that long-postponed tests needed to be conducted on critical machinery at …
Southern Nuclear has announced it has received authorisation from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to use advanced nuclear fuel enriched up to 6% uranium-235 at Vogtle unit 2. This is the first time a US commercial reactor has been authorised to use fuel with over 5% enrichment. The regulatory authorisation means that manufacture of …
The dome of the containment building has been installed at unit 2 of the San’ao nuclear power plant, China General Nuclear (CGN) has announced. It is the second of six Chinese-designed HPR1000 (Hualong One) pressurised water reactors planned at the site in China’s Zhejiang province. The dome – weighing about 238 tonnes and measuring 45 …
EDF, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy International LLC, Holtec Britain Limited, NuScale Power, Rolls Royce SMR and Westinghouse Electric Company UK Limited are now to be invited to bid for UK government contracts in the next stage of the process. The UK government has plans to expand nuclear energy capacity to 24 GW by 2050, with …
Country is aiming to end battle over power market reform Document seen by Bloomberg aims to stop unfair subsidies Germany is set to outline its proposals to break a deadlock with France over the design of the European Union’s electricity market, the latest crunch point between the nations over the region’s climate transition. The paper lays out three …
Or, at least, in Canada While U.S. nuclear industry struggles through licensing, financing, and fuel availability problems, Canada appears to be on the verge of a construction binge. What’s different? Well, the physics are the same, of course, but the politics and the financial structure are a bit different. In January this year, Ontario Power …
To be officially handed over on October 5 RNPP has two 1200MW units The first batch of fresh uranium, the nuclear fuel of the first unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, has arrived in Bangladesh. According to official sources, the consignment of uranium arrived in Dhaka from Russia on Thursday afternoon through a special …
Costs of expanding nuclear power plants could ultimately run into the hundreds of billions of dollars Demand for electricity across Canada is forecast to double in the next 25 years, and all the signs from Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government indicate that nuclear energy will supply the biggest portion of the province’s additional power needs. …
The UK’s National Grid Plc is preparing for a possible power crunch in January as several planned nuclear outages coincide with peak winter demand. Electricity consumption is projected to climb to a high during the first two weeks of January, just as nuclear availability is forecast to drop, according to National Grid’s winter outlook report …
A dome is installed over a Hualong One nuclear power unit at Fangchenggang nuclear power plant in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China May 23, 2018, in this picture provided by Fangchenggang nuclear power plant and released by China Daily/File photo Acquire Licensing Rights China expects to greenlight six to eight new nuclear power units a year …