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Finland’s Steady Energy, a startup company spun out from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in 2023, and Nuclear Services (TVONS), a consulting company wholly owned by Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) are to collaborate on the development of a nuclear heating plant.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssteady-energy-and-tvo-nuclear-services-to-collaborate-on-nuclear-heating-11687333
Steady Energy - Finnish developer of the LDR-50 small modular reactor - has signed a collaboration agreement with TVO Nuclear Services related to the development of a nuclear heating plant, initially focusing on the planning of the nuclear facility's operation and safety.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 12 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Steady-Energy-taps-TVO-nuclear-expertise
The general concept for the construction of a geological disposal facility in clay-based rocks for Lithuania's radioactive waste has been developed by the State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant with assistance from Finnish waste management company Posiva.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 05 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/General-concept-for-Lithuanian-repository-prepared
Physical protection measures at Japan's seven-unit Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant have been significantly strengthened over recent years, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The finding came as Tokyo Electric Power Company submitted a plan to the nuclear regulator to begin loading fuel into unit 7 of the plant later this month.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 03 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-confirms-nuclear-security-improvements-at-Jap
World leaders gathered in Brussels at the first ever Nuclear Energy Summit co-chaired by the Prime Minister of Belgium Alexander De Croo and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi. The Summit was the highest-level meeting to date exclusively focused on the topic of nuclear energy. It followed inclusion of nuclear energy in the Global Stocktake agreed at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai in December 2023 and the launch of the IAEA’s Atoms4NetZero initiative.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-energy-summit-attracts-world-leaders-11632691
Leaders and representatives from 32 countries at the Nuclear Energy Summit backed measures in areas such as financing, technological innovation, regulatory cooperation and workforce training to enable the expansion of nuclear capacity to tackle climate change and boost energy security.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 22 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Leaders-back-nuclear-at-summit
Slovak power utility Slovenské Elektrárne (SE) hosted a two-day forum, the 5th annual VVER Fuel Forum in Bratislava. The forum on nuclear fuel for VVER 440 and VVER 1000 reactors, which was sponsored by Westinghouse, was attended by representatives of utilities that are potential customers for Westinghouse VVER fuel. These included Ukraine’s Energoatom, Finland’s Fortum, the Czech Republic’s CEZ, Bulgaria’s JE Kozloduy, and Hungary’s nuclear plant operator MVM Paks. The participants exchanged experiences on the procedure for implementing fuel from Westinghouse for operating VVER-440 and VVER-1000 reactors.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 29 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsslovakia-hosts-westinghouse-sponsored-vver-nuclear-fuel-forum-11554179
The transfer trolley for moving used fuel transport casks has been installed at Finnish waste management company Posiva's encapsulation plant under construction at Olkiluoto. The 30-tonne trolley, manufactured by the French company CSI and delivered to the encapsulation plant earlier in February measures about five metres by four metres. After being transferred from the fuel reception hall one floor below, it was placed on the rails it will use during operation.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 17 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfuel-transfer-trolley-installed-at-finnish-encapsulation-plant-11520226
Finnish power companies Fortum and TVO, which own and operate NPPs in Finland and Sweden have signed framework agreement with Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe (PEJ) to provide technical support in the design, engineering and preparation for operation of Poland's planned NPP in Pomerania.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 16 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfortum-and-tvo-to-advise-on-polands-first-npp-11519643
Warsaw planning first three reactor units in Pomerania
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/finland-companies-sign-agreement-on-new-nuclear-programme-2-2-2024