If countries are serious about combatting climate change, then they will reform their electricity markets, William Magwood, director general of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), told delegates at the World Nuclear Association Symposium 2018 held in London last week. Magwood highlighted one of the three objectives of the Harmony initiative – a level playing …
Without greater leadership and ambition, the world risks crossing the point of no return on climate change, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has warned. In a speech given yesterday at the UN headquarters in New York, Guterres said: “Climate change is the defining issue of our time – and we are at a defining moment. …
A draft updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) approved by South Africa’s cabinet on 22 August sees the country’s nuclear capacity remaining at its current 1830 MWe over the period to 2030. Energy Minister Jeff Radebe yesterday released the plan for public comment. Under IRP 2018, coal would represent 46% of South Africa’s installed capacity mix, …
Kyushu Electric Power Co may start restricting third-party supplies of solar energy after it restarts a fourth nuclear reactor, the company said on Wednesday, underscoring the risks to a government push to boost renewable energy. Japan’s fifth-biggest utility by sales plans to restart the No. 2 reactor at its Sendai station later on Wednesday, giving …
Canada’s Cameco is soliciting bids from uranium producers and trading companies to supply 500,000 lb of uranium between the end of this year through March 21, 2019, with a requirement that the material not be of Russian origin, market sources said last Thursday. The solicitation, made Tuesday, sets August 31 as the deadline for potential …
Unit 1 of the Leningrad Phase II nuclear power plant in northwest Russia is now ready for commercial operation, Rosenergoatom announced today following the completion of the final commissioning test. Start-up operations of the new Leningrad unit began on 8 December last year, when the first fuel assemblies were loaded into the reactor core. The …
Four of Japan’s biggest nuclear operators and plant builders have started talks on a potential partnership in atomic energy, as the sector struggles to reboot in the wake of the Fukushima disaster seven years ago, a source said on Wednesday. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc (Tepco) (9501.T), Hitachi Ltd (6501.T), Toshiba (6502.T) and Chubu …
CEO Samruk-Kazyna welfare fund Akhmetzjan Yesimov briefed the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on the results the fund’s activities in the first 7 months of the current year and plans for the forthcoming period. The main indicators for the first half of the year are positive. 18 assets worth KZT 42 billion ($117 million) were …
Rusatom International Network – a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom – has signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation with the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB). The memorandum provides for establishing common principles of bilateral cooperation with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and other countries. The agreement was signed on 10 August by Alexander …
The fifth meeting of the U.S.-Japan Bilateral Commission on Civil Nuclear Cooperation (the Bilateral Commission) was held in Tokyo on August 8, 2018. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette and Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Takeo Mori led the discussions as co-chairs. The delegations included participants representing a wide range of governmental agencies. Participants from …