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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is satisfied with the process of releasing tritium-containing treated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi NPP into the sea, IAEA Director-General Rafael Marino Grossi said during a visit to Japan.

Date: Saturday, 16 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-satisfied-with-fukushima-treated-water-release-process-11605466

The lower part of the inner containment building's dome has a diameter of 44 metres at its base and is just over 12 metres high. The upper dome part will be lifted and welded into position in a separate operation.

Date: Saturday, 16 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Lower-tier-of-Tianwan-8-s-containment-dome-lifted

The head of Russia’s Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, has said that Russia and China are considering the possibility of building a NPP on the surface of the moon in the 2030s. “Today we are seriously considering the project, somewhere at the turn of 2033-2035, delivery and installation on the lunar surface together with our Chinese colleagues of a power plant” he said during the World Youth Festival in Sirius near Sochi.

Date: Thursday, 14 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-and-china-consider-building-a-nuclear-power-plant-on-the-moon-11597687

The board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution calling for the immediate return of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to Ukrainian control - however Russia says the vote "went beyond the mandate of the board and the entire agency".

Date: Thursday, 14 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-governors-resolution-on-Zaporizhzhia-rejected

Chinese-French TAC-1 (CNPE) consortium has won a contract for the sub-assembly of modules for the vacuum vessel of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), under construction at Cadarache in southern France. The consortium includes China Nuclear Power Engineering (a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation - CNNC); China Nuclear Industry 23 Construction Company Ltd; Southwestern Institute of Physics; Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences ASIPP; and France’s Framatome.

Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschinese-french-consortium-to-assemble-iter-vacuum-chamber-11594527

Turkey's Energy MinisterĀ Alparslan Bayraktar says it hopes to launch the first unit at Akkuyu by the end of the year - while negotiations continue with Russia, China and South Korea about two more nuclear power plants.

Date: Tuesday, 12 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Turkey-continuing-negotiations-over-two-new-nucler

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has started commissioning China's first industrial-use nuclear energy steam supply project at the Tianwan NPP in Jiangsu province. The project is set to deliver steam to a nearby petrochemical plant, demonstrating a novel application of nuclear energy beyond electricity generation.

Date: Thursday, 07 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschina-launches-nuclear-steam-project-at-tianwan-npp-11576695