A NuScale reactor module. The company and its partner, the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, announced Wednesday that they had decided to terminate a 462 MW small modular reactor project in Idaho. Permission granted by NuScale Power, LLC NuScale and the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems determined that the 462-MW project would likely not reach a sufficient subscription level …
Lawmakers on Thursday approved a proposal that would allow companies to develop new nuclear power generation in Illinois for the first time since 1987. House Bill 2473 does not entirely lift the 36-year-old moratorium on nuclear construction. Instead, it creates a regulatory structure for the construction of small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs. The bill limits …
The announcement, by Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy, came after a meeting in Washington DC, between Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko (pictured above, left) and Holtec President Chris Singh (pictured, right). Ukraine’s Centralised Spent Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF), located in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, was commissioned last year. It is a dry storage site for used nuclear …
The 350-tonne reactor pressure vessel for Akkuyu unit 3 in Turkey has been delivered after a 1700-mile journey. The cylindrical reactor pressure vessel is 11.45 metres long and 5.7 metres wide and was produced by the Volgodonsk branch of AEM-Technologies JSC of Atommash, part of Atomenergomash, the machine production division of Rosatom. The Akkuyu plant, …
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), shown here on Sept. 19 in New York City, said of the passage of clean-energy bills in her state: Michigan lawmakers approved a slate of bills Wednesday night that are set to transform the energy systems at the heart of America’s heavy industry, putting the major manufacturing state on a …
France’s power sector is under fresh scrutiny as maintenance on several of the country’s critical nuclear reactors continues just as Europe braces for another winter, when regional heating demand typically peaks. Nuclear reactors generate 65% to 70% of France’s electricity, which is the highest share of nuclear generation globally and has historically enabled France to …
Switzerland plans keeping nuclear plants in use longer than previously expected over fears of electricity shortages, mirroring a broader trend of European countries revisiting the potential of atomic energy. The country decided to exit nuclear power in 2017, but didn’t set a date to shut down its four plants, which are supposed to run as …
Fresh legislation to lift a moratorium on new nuclear plants in Illinois has surfaced in the state General Assembly A Republican Illinois senator proposed fresh legislation Tuesday lifting a moratorium on new nuclear reactors and calls for new rules governing them, one of the concerns raised in a gubernatorial veto of a previous version of the legislation. Sen. Sue …
The steel containment dome was successfully hoisted into place at the ACP100 small modular reactor (SMR) demonstration project at the Changjiang site on China’s island province of Hainan, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has announced. The reactor building for the ACP100 – also referred to as the Linglong One – consists of three parts: the internal …
Twelve European Union member countries asked the European Commission to create an industrial alliance for small modular nuclear reactors. Their representatives are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the European Nuclear Energy Forum in Bratislava. In a joint letter, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden called for investment incentives for small modular reactors (SMRs). In …
