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Licensing work for the planned Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant in Finland has progressed "to the homestretch", with the final licensing materials expected to be submitted to the nuclear regulator over the next couple of months, Fennovoima has said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 18 January 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Hanhikivi-1-licensing-work-nears-completion
The French government expects plans for new nuclear reactors should be submitted around 2023 with a target date of 2035-37 for the reactors to go online, Berangere Abba, Secretary of State to the Minister for the Ecological Transition, said during a parliamentary debate in the Senate on 6 January.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 11 January 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrance-expects-new-nuclear-reactors-to-begin-operation-in-2035-37-9388128
Finland’s radioactive waste management company, Posiva Oy, said on 30 December that it had submitted its application to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (MEAE) for an operating licence for the used fuel encapsulation plant and final disposal facility currently under construction at Olkiluoto. MEAE said Posiva is applying for an operating licence for a period from March 2024 to the end of 2070.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 07 January 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfinland-applies-for-licence-to-operate-worlds-first-used-fuel-final-disposal-facility-9371048
Finnish radioactive waste management company Posiva Oy has submitted its application for an operating licence for the used fuel encapsulation plant and final disposal facility currently under construction at Olkiluoto. The repository - the first in the world for used fuel - is expected to begin operations in the mid-2020s.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 06 January 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Posiva-applies-to-operate-used-fuel-disposal-repos
The first criticality of the EPR reactor installed at unit 3 of the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in Finland was achieved on 21 December, power utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) announced.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 24 December 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsolkiluoto-3-epr-plant-unit-starts-up-9343313
Protocols to amend two international instruments strengthening the rights to compensation for those affected by nuclear energy accidents have been formally ratified and will enter into force on 1 January.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 22 December 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-liability-protocols-ratified-to-strengthen
Finland's fifth nuclear reactor, Olkiluoto 3 (OL3), has reached first criticality. The EPR (European Pressurised Water Reactor) is the first new nuclear unit to be commissioned in Finland in over 40 years, and will eventually produce some 14% of the country's electricity.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 22 December 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Europe-s-first-EPR-reaches-criticality
Jeremy Gordon says that rising gas prices show that Europe can’t afford to do without nuclear
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 18 December 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscoming-to-a-head--9329540
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), BWXT Canada and Poland's Synthos Green Energy (SGE) yesterday signed a Letter of Intent to cooperate in deploying BWRX-300 small modular reactors (SMRs) in Poland. SGE, together with its partners, plans to deploy at least 10 BWRX-300 SMRs in Poland by the early 2030s.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 17 December 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Collaboration-for-Polish-deployment-of-BWRX-300
Finland’s Ministry of Employment and the Economy (MEE) said on 8 December that a climate-neutral future requires appropriate and up-to-date legislation and it is, therefore, “launching legislative preparations aimed at a comprehensive reform of the Nuclear Energy Act”. This aims to ensure that the production of nuclear energy “will continue to be in the general interest of society, safe and economically viable”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 14 December 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfinland-to-reform-nuclear-energy-act-9316926