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National Atomic Company Kazatomprom has announced that the Kazakhstan-China joint venture, Ulba-TVS LLP, which produces fuel for Chinese NPPs has completed the qualification process for the production of AFA 3G type A fuel assemblies. Technology holder France’s Framatome has confirmed the announcement. Work on the certification began in March 2023 and took place in four stages, Kazatomprom noted.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 06 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskazakh-chinese-joint-venture-completes-fuel-qualification-certification-11413473
Olkiluoto-3 could meet 14% of demand and help reduce imports from Russia. Courtesy TVO. Electricity production gas begun at the Olkiluoto-3 EPR nuclear power plant in Finland – the first commercial nuclear facility to begin operation in Europe since Romania’s Cernavoda-2 in 2007.
Operator Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) said the 1,600-MW plant, supplied by an Areva-Siemens consortium, was connected to the grid at 13:01 local time on Saturday 12 March and power output has been gradually increased to approximately 27%.
During a test production phase of about four months, the unit’s power output will be gradually increased to the maximum 1,600 MW. Regular electricity production is scheduled to begin in July 2022.
Once fully operational Olkiluoto-3 is expected to meet 14% of Finland’s electricity demand, potentially reducing the need for imports from Russia, Sweden and Norway.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/electricity-production-begins-at-first-new-european-nuclear-reactor-in-15-years-3-1-2022
On 22 April 2021, Electricite de France (EDF) submitted to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) a binding techno-commercial offer to develop six EPR reactors at the Jaitapur site in Maharashtra, India with an installed capacity of 9.6 GWe. EDF said: “This major milestone for EDF, its partners and the French nuclear industry will enable discussions aimed at converging towards a binding framework agreement in the coming months.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 27 April 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsedf-signs-agreement-to-construct-six-epr-reactors-in-india-8699336
Brazil’s nuclear utility, Eletronuclear, on 25 February published in the Official Gazette (Diário Oficial da Uniao), a tender for a company to resume the civil works at the partly completed unit 3 of the Angra NPP, and to carry out part of the electromechanical assembly. This aim is to accelerate the plant's progress and to press ahead with some construction activities before hiring a contractor to undertake work to complete the construction of the plant. The contract is expected to be signed by May. First concrete is now scheduled for October and hiring of the general contractor for the second half of 2022. Eletronuclear is a subsidiary of state-run electric utility Eletrobras, which the government plans to privatise, although the nuclear power unit will be spun off and remain under state control.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 04 March 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbrazil-to-resume-work-on-angra-3-8564296
China's third-generation nuclear power technology, Hualong One (HPR 1000), with independent intellectual property rights successfully passed the European Utility Requirements (EUR) compliance assessment and obtained the EUR certification, China General Nuclear (CGN) announced.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 17 November 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschinas-hulaong-one-passes-eur-compliance-assessment-8362485
Fennovoima has appointed Joachim Specht as the company's new chief executive officer. The company, which is building the Russia-supplied Hanhikiv-1 nuclear unit in Finland said he will take up his post on 1 June.
Mr Specht comes from Fennovoima PreussenElektra, formerly E.ON Kernkraft, where he served as executive vice-president and head of nuclear engineering and consulting. He has also held positions at Areva, Framatome and Siemens/KWU.
Fennovoima announced in October that chief executive officer Toni Hemminki was leaving the company.
Mr Hemminki said earlier last year that the progress of Hanhikivi-1 was a disappointment in 2018 with a new estimated schedule postponing commercial operation by several years.
The new schedule was received from the plant supplier Raos Project, a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, at the end of 2018.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 07 March 2020
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/company-behind-hanhikivi-1-nuclear-project-appoints-new-ceo-3-5-2020
Leonam Guimaraes, president of Brazil's state nuclear power company Eletronuclear, told Reuters that Brazil plans to complete the delayed unit 3 at its Angra NPP in partnership with either China's National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), France's EDF or Russia state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 30 October 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbrazil-seeks-partners-to-complete-angra-3-7478476
France’s Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA - Atomic & Alternative Energies Commission) is abandoning plans to build its prototype fast-breeder for the ASTRID (Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration) project, Le Monde reported on 30 August.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 03 September 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrance-cancels-astrid-fast-reactor-project-7394432
Policymakers have unreasonably and unfairly overlooked the role of nuclear energy in the fight against climate change, writes Borislav Boev, a PhD student at D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics in Bulgaria.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Monday, 04 March 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Why-we-need-nuclear-power
Bulgaria’s Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said on 7 November that the government will seek initial expressions of interest from four foreign firms to invest in a revived project to build a NPP at the Belene site on the Danube. Invitations to become strategic investors in the €10 billion ($11.3 billion) scheme will be sent to China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), France’s Framatome, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co (KHNP), she told reporters.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 09 November 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbulgaria-revives-belene-project-6843959