News China approves four reactors with six more to come this year China’s State Council has given the green light for work to begin on two Hualong One reactors at the Taipingling nuclear power plant in Guangdong, and two more at the…
News Korean team to study new reactor for the Netherlands Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) will carry out a feasibility study on building a new nuclear reactor in the Netherlands. There is currently only one nuclear power plant in…
News Korean team to push their SMR design with eyes on Canada The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (Kaeri) and Hyundai Engineering have signed a memorandum of agreement aimed at winning export markets for its small modular reactor (SMR) technology. The agreement…
News EDF to build up to 1.5 reactors a year in the 2030s French nuclear operator EDF aims to build nuclear reactors at a rate of up to 1.5 a year over the 2030s, its chief executive said. Luc Rémont made the comment…
Innovation Meet the start-up developing microreactors Nuclear reactors come in three forms. The largest are the 700MW-plus units that power entire countries and are produced by a handful of national champions, the largest three being Areva,…
News Pakistan to start work on $4.8bn China-funded reactor “without delay” China has signed a preliminary agreement with Pakistan to finance and build a 1.2GW nuclear reactor there worth $4.8bn, CNN reports. The deal was signed last week between Pakistan’s Atomic…
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 China mulls putting a reactor on the Moon China’s Moon base, to be built at the satellite’s south pole by 2028, could be powered by nuclear energy, reports South China Morning Post. The project was revealed by Wu…
