Funding of up to USD275 million to advance the deployment of a NuScale Power Corporation VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) plant in Romania was announced at the G7 leaders’ summit by the USA and “multinational public-private partners” from Japan, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates. The money announced includes a Letter of Interest from …
Sample designs are shown in these renderings. Courtesy of LENOWISCO Planning District Commission. The study identified seven potential sites for SMRs in the area of Lee, Wise, Scott and Dickenson counties and the city of Norton. A feasibility study that identifies seven potential sites has determined that far Southwest Virginia has the capabilities to be …
Oklo and the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative, or SODI, a redevelopment agency, have signed an agreement to develop two nuclear plants on a re-industrialized site once used for the production of enriched uranium for the U.S. nuclear defense system and commercial nuclear power, the company announced Thursday. The plants will provide up to 30 MW of clean electric power and …
A collaboration between Danish and Indonesian companies will study the operational and regulatory conditions for constructing an ammonia production facility in Indonesia powered by Copenhagen Atomics’ small and modular thorium molten salt reactors. Four Danish companies – Copenhagen Atomics, Aalborg CSP, Alfa Laval and Topsoe – have signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesian ammonia …
The 44-metre diameter lower tier of the inner containment dome, weighing 391 tonnes, has been lifted into position on the seventh unit of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China. A crane with a 2000-tonne capacity was moved to the construction site to complete the lift. The next stage is to complete the installation work …
Once upon a time, enrichment was a government monopoly—at least outside the Soviet bloc. But the United States, eager to get out of the field, was convinced that the private sector could do it better. Now, the West is dependent on the Soviets’ successors and is facing an uncertain supply, a complication of the Russian …
Nuclear operators in North America are looking to take advantage of generous clean hydrogen subsidies to diversify and help pay the bills. Generation workhorses, such as Bruce Power’s Nuclear Generating Station in Ontario, Canada and Constellation’s Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station in New York, as well as fourth generation reactor developers, such as Terrestrial Energy, consider themselves …
The government intends to accelerate the construction of nuclear power reactors in the southeastern North Gyeongsang county of Uljin that was suspended under the previous Moon Jae-in administration’s nuclear phase-out policy. Second vice energy minister Kang Kyung-sung, who checked up on the construction of Shin Hanul Numbers Three and Four reactors on Thursday, called for …
Nuclear could provide up to 150 GWe of generating capacity by 2050 in the European Union, according to a statement issued by 16 European countries following a meeting in Paris with European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson. The so-called Nuclear Alliance called on the European Commission to recognise nuclear energy in the EU’s energy strategy …
Many European nations are reinvesting in or reconsidering nuclear power after years of declining use, as Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year exposed the region’s reliance on Russian energy. Finland opened a new nuclear power plant last month, sending electricity prices down by 75%. France just passed a law accelerating the construction of new reactors, while …
