News Turkey in talks with China, Russia, and Korea over more nuclear plants Turkey has entered into talks with China, Russia, and South Korea on possible deals to build the country’s second and third nuclear power plants (NPPs), and with the US and…
News Ontario starts process of building first reactor in a generation The Canadian province of Ontario has begun pre-development work with nuclear operator Bruce Power to build the first nuclear reactor in the country in a generation. It’s planned for the…
News Samsung and NuScale pledge to build a small reactor in Romania Korean contractor Samsung C&T has teamed up with US company NuScale to develop a small modular reactor (SMR) in Romania, business website Pulse reports. The two will work with Texas…
News China halts floating nuclear power plan over security fears China’s plan to build a fleet of nuclear power reactors that would provide electrical power to islands on the South China Sea have been suspended over security concerns, the South…
News Ukraine’s frontline nuclear plant suffers seventh outage of invasion Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant this morning lost all external electricity for the seventh time since Russia’s invasion began, the director general of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael…
News Westinghouse’s small reactor would fit four to a football pitch North American nuclear engineer Westinghouse yesterday unveiled plans to manufacture a small modular reactor (SMR) by the end of this decade. Called the AP300, it would be an ultra-compact version…
News Fluor joint venture wins $45bn environmental management job A joint venture of three American companies BWX Technologies, Fluor and Amentum, have won a 10-year contract with a ceiling of $45bn for environmental management operations at the decommissioned Hanford…
News 14 years late, Finland’s new reactor, Olkiluoto 3, starts generating power The 1.6GW Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear reactor began producing electricity yesterday, 18 years after the project broke ground and €8bn over its original €3bn budget. OL3 is the largest nuclear…
News Hungary agrees new deal for two Russian reactors Hungary and Russia have reached a new agreement to add two VVER-1200 reactors to the Paks nuclear power plant, the Budapest Business Journal reports. The agreement modifies the original contract…
News Egypt approves Russia’s plan for third reactor at El Dabaa power station Russia’s state-owned nuclear engineer Rosatom has received permission from Egypt’s nuclear regulator to build a third reactor at the El Dabaa site on the Mediterranean coast, World Nuclear News reports. …
News Westinghouse-Bechtel meet 55 Czech companies in nuclear bid A Westinghouse-Bechtel team this week met with 55 Czech companies to discuss the engineers’ bid to build nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic. The Westinghouse-Bechtel team is one of three…
News South Korea offers to build four reactors for Turkey The Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) said yesterday that it had contacted the government of Turkey to propose the construction of four reactors with a total power output of 5.6GW,…
News Japan plans nuclear return with seven dormant plants revived Japan plans to bring seven dormant nuclear plants back online this year and to start building a new fleet of state-of-the-art reactors to meet its energy needs. The move comes…
News Netherlands approves two new reactors as old Borssele plant eyes retirement The Netherlands’ Council of Ministers has approved plans for two new reactors, with the country’s only existing plant at Borssele in Zeeland as the preferred location, VRT News reports. The…
News Iran starts building own-brand nuclear plant Iran broke ground on a nuclear power plant in the country’s southwestern Khuzestan region on Saturday, state news agency PressTV reports. The Karun plant will be located on a 50ha…
News Three nuclear engineers in race to build Czech nuclear plant Bids from US-Canadian engineer Westinghouse, France’s EDF and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) have been shortlisted for a nuclear plant in Dukovany, in the southeast of the Czech Republic.…
Uncategorized Russian shelling leads to ‘12 hits’ at Ukraine’s biggest nuclear plant operator says Russian shelling over Saturday and Sunday resulted in 12 direct hits on structures at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Ukraine’s nuclear power company Energoatom said yesterday. Experts from the…
News Russia pours concrete for second reactor at Egypt’s El-Dabaa nuclear plant Russian nuclear engineer Rosatom poured the first concrete on Saturday (19 November) for the second reactor at Egypt’s El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, the country’s first. Egypt’s energy minister Mohamed Shaker…