The USA and the Philippines have signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement – known as a 123 Agreement – that will allow the transfer of nuclear energy-related materials and components between the two countries. Formal cooperation agreements are required between countries that want to trade nuclear power goods and services, and those involving the USA …
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy report, Made in Britain: The Pathway to a Nuclear Renaissance, says multiple small modular reactor (SMR) units should be ordered to justify firms’ investment in UK production facilities – and calls for Wylfa in North Wales to be backed within the next year as the next large-scale plant. The …
Foreign companies that sell mini nuclear reactors to Britain should be forced to use local suppliers to build them here in a boost for industry, a group of MPs has said. A report by the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on nuclear energy today urges the Government to require developers to use domestic supply chains when building small …
Eiffage, through its subsidiary Eiffage Génie Civil, just signed the contract with EDF to carry out the main civil engineering works for the first pair of EPR2-type nuclear power plants on the site of Penly. The contract has a value greater than 4 billion euros. The tender of this contract began in 2019. The contract …
The termination of the project that had been expected to be the first operational NuScale SMR reactor was “very disappointing” but the company remains bullish about the future, according to the company’s CEO. Speaking in a special update to the 2023 ANS Winter Conference and Expo, hosted by the American Nuclear Society (ANS), John Hopkins said the mutual …
Construction has started of the nuclear island for unit 1 at the Xudabao nuclear power plant in Liaoning Province, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced. The construction of units 1 and 2 of the Xudabao (also known as Xudapu) plant was approved by China’s State Council on 31 July this year. On 6 November, the …
Russia’s state nuclear power corporation has reported that turbine blades broke at a plant where the company has installed two reactors of a type it is also building in Turkey and plans to construct in Hungary. Rosenergoatom, which runs Russia’s nuclear power stations, said it was not clear what caused the blades to break, forcing …
Sweden’s government said it aimed to build the equivalent of two new conventional nuclear reactors by 2035 on Thursday to meet surging demand for clean power from industry and transport and was prepared to take on some of the costs. By 2045 the government wants to have the equivalent of 10 new reactors, some of …
Poland’s incoming administration is set to pile pressure on foreign companies in the country’s nascent nuclear energy program to buy an equity stake in the venture. Grzegorz Onichimowski, the chief energy adviser to the Civic Platform party, said the already chosen US partners, Westinghouse Electric Co. and Bechtel Group Inc., should take at least a …
The main construction period for the VVER-1200 unit will begin in 2025 after the go-ahead was given to begin the second stage of the construction project for what will be the seventh and eighth units at Leningrad nuclear power plants. Work at the construction site has seen a pit prepared for the nuclear island of …
