The second reactor at Mexico’s Laguna Verde nuclear power plant has been granted an extension to its operating licence, taking the lifetime of the plant into the mid-2050s. Nuclear is seen as doubling its contribution in advance of Mexico’s 2050 targets. Laguna Verde is the only nuclear power plant in Mexico. Owned and operated by …
Keel laying ceremony for the first of Russia’s new generation floating nuclear power plants took place at China’s Wison Heavy Industries Co yard in Nantong on August 30. Photo: Rosatom Three years after “Akademik Lomonosov” started to produce electricity for the remote Siberian community of Pevek, the first of four in a new generation of …
President Yoon Suk-yeol (L) tours a nuclear reactor factory of Doosan Enerbility in Changwon, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on June 22, 2022. Yoon pledged to rebuild the nuclear power industry and support its expansion overseas, underscoring his commitment to reversing the nuclear phase-out policy of the previous administration. (Yonhap) South Korea seeks to expand …
Resistance to nuclear power is starting to ebb around the world with support from a surprising group: environmentalists. This change of heart spans the globe, and is being prompted by climate change, unreliable electrical grids and fears about national security in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In California, the state’s last remaining power …
A Japanese technician checks radiation levels at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Photo: AFP PM Kishida signals nuclear policy shift just as the shuttered industry’s manufacturing and technical expertise is slipping away Japanese Prime Minister Kishida has expressed support for investigations that will probably lead to the first construction of new nuclear power plants in …
One of Pacific Gas & Electric’s Diablo Canyon Power Plant’s nuclear reactors in Avila Beach, Calif., is viewed Nov. 3, 2008. California legislators and Gov. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and a group of legislators reached a late-hour compromise bill released late Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, to extend the lifespan of the state’s last operating nuclear …
THE BUZZ: Lawmakers were cutting it a little close last night as they hurried to get bills into print before the 72-hour deadline. They’ve had weeks to make a deal, but, hey, sometimes work is best done under pressure, right? We’ve got a slew of new legislation to dig into, including 13 bills that are up in the …
Head of the Nuclear Power Plants Authority Amjad Al-Wakeel, revealed that, according to the agreed timetable for the Dabaa nuclear plant project, concrete will be poured for the second reactor with a capacity of 1200 megawatts on November 19. This will coincide with the celebrations of the Nuclear Energy Day. He further added that the first nuclear …
Hungary’s nuclear energy agency has issued a license for construction of two reactors for Paks II, a power generation project first launched in early 2014 as part of an inter-governmental agreement between Hungary and Russia. Officials said Paks II would be the first nuclear plant in the European Union to use Rosatom’s Generation III+ VVER-1200 …
Slovenske Elektrarne’s new nuclear power unit at Mochovce will begin fuelling in the next two weeks and start production by early 2023 after a watchdog’s ruling cleared the way, the Slovak utility’s chairman said on Thursday. Slovenske Elektrarne’s new nuclear power unit at Mochovce will begin fuelling in the next two weeks and start production …
