10012 news articles found
The Netherlands government will fully finance the cost of Pallas research reactor at Petten. Minister of Health, Welfare & Sport Ernst Kuipers has confirmed full financing for the construction of the reactor. The positive decision was expected. In February, the Nuclear & Radiation Protection Authority (ANVS - Autoriteit Nucleaire Veiligheid en Stralingsbescherming) granted a construction licence for the reactor and Rijkswaterstaat issued the Water Act permit for the intake and discharge of cooling water.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 22 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfull-financing-approved-for-pallas-reactor-11164091
The defuelling of the first reactor at the UK’s Hunterston B NPP has been completed, on time and on budget, EDF Energy reported. Reactor 3 was defuelled in 16 months and work is due to start shortly on Reactor 4.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 22 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdefuelling-of-first-reactor-complete-at-hunterston-b-11164076
Canada and Romania have signed a CAD3bn ($2.2bn) export development deal to support construction of two new units at the Cernavoda NPP. Canadian Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said the financing offer for Romania’s national nuclear operator, Nuclearelectrica, to buy supplies or services from Canadian companies.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 22 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscanada-agrees-funding-for-cernavoda-expansion-11163290
Czech power utility CEZ has extended the deadline for submitting the final bids for construction of the new nuclear reactor at the Dukovany NPP by nearly a month at the request of one of the bidders, reported by CTK to be US Westinghouse. The other bidders are France’s EDF and Korea hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), all offering pressurised water reactor designs. Westinghouse is proposing its AP1000, KHNP its APR1400 design and EDF its EPR1200 (a smaller version of its standard EPR). Russia and China were excluded from the bidding in 2021.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 22 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsez-extends-deadline-for-final-bids-for-new-nuclear-unit-at-dukovany-11163261
The recently opened Gayle & Max Dillard Science & Engineering Research Centre (SERC) at the US Abilene Christian University (ACU) in Texas, which includes the Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing Laboratory (NEXT Lab), is continuing to pursue research on molten salt reactors. “The Dillard Science and Engineering Research Centre is a building unlike any other at ACU or on the campus of most universities across the nation,” said Phil Schubert, ACU president, at the opening of the facility.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 22 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-research-centre-at-texas-university-to-develop-molten-salt-reactor-11163221
South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction (HEC) has signed an “agreement for new nuclear power business” with the Polish Construction Association in Warsaw. The signing ceremony was attended by HEC President Yoon Young-jun, Polish Construction Association Vice Chairman Damian Kazmierjak, and key officials from both companies. Under the agreement, the two companies will co-operate on policies, industry trends, local information, and professional technology related to Polish construction. “We plan to seek active cooperation measures to discover new nuclear power plant projects,” HEC noted.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshyundai-signs-agreements-in-poland-to-access-nuclear-and-infrastructure-markets-11159746
Japan’s Kansai Electric Power has restarted unit 2 of its Takahama NPP in Fukui Prefecture for the first time since 2011. The 780 MWe pressurised water reactor (PWR), which began operation in 1975, is the 12th unit to be restarted since all NPPs were closed in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Kansai has now resumed operating all of its seven reactors since the more stringent post-Fukushima safety standards were introduced. Takahama 2 unit is the second oldest in Japan after the 48-year-old Takahama 1 unit, which was restarted in July.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjapans-takahama-2-restarts-after-12-years-11159777
UK-based Tokamak Energy’s superconducting magnet system, which is being built to replicate fusion energy power plant forces, has passed significant milestone cryogenic tests. Creating fusion energy requires strong magnetic fields to confine and control the extremely hot hydrogen fuel, which becomes a plasma several times hotter than the centre of the Sun.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstokamak-energys-fusion-magnet-system-passes-cryogenic-tests-11159891
Pilot industrial operation of new nuclear fuel for VVER-1000 reactors with a second-generation anti-debris filter ADF-2 has been completed at unit 1 of Russia’s Rostov NPP. A pilot batch of 12 TVS-2M fuel cassettes with anti-debris filters of an improved design was loaded into the reactor core in 2018. It has now successfully completed the full operating cycle for VVER-1000 fuel assemblies.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-completes-tests-of-tvs-2m-nuclear-fuel-11159931
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has condemned a decision by Iran to withdraw the designation of several experienced Agency inspectors assigned to conduct verification activities in Iran under the NPT [Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] Safeguards Agreement.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiran-revokes-licences-of-some-iaea-inspectors-11160782