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A robust supply chain is needed to enable new reactors to be built on time, on budget and at the scale needed to meet decarbonisation goals - and major players in the nuclear engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) sector shared some of the experiences and lessons learned from projects both nuclear and non-nuclear at World Nuclear Symposium 2024.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 07 September 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Breaking-new-ground-in-EPC
Candu Energy Inc has agreed with Third Qinshan Nuclear Power Company Limited to support the ongoing 30-year life extension of the two Candu reactors at the Qinshan Nuclear Generating Station, while Bruce Power has awarded a CAD700 million (USD510 million) contract to replace steam generators at Bruce units 5, 7 and 8 to the AECON-led Steam Generator Replacement Team (SGRT) joint venture.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 10 August 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Contracts-support-Candu-projects-in-China-and-Cana
‘International context’ has accelerated need for European solution
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 25 July 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/framatome-signs-agreement-with-slovakia-as-efforts-continue-to-bypass-russia-7-3-2024
Slovak utility Slovenské elektrárne has signed a contract with France's Framatome for the long-term supply of nuclear fuel to the VVER-440 reactors at its Bohunice and Mochovce plants, starting from 2027.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 25 July 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Framatome-to-supply-fuel-for-Slovak-VVER-reactors
General Atomics has manufactured the first batch of full-length SiGA silicon carbide composite tubes designed for pressurised water reactors. The company is developing nuclear fuel rods that can withstand higher temperatures than materials currently used.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 23 July 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/GA-progresses-with-silicon-carbide-fuel-cladding-d
The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) has applied to the UK government for a justification decision for Rolls-Royce SMR's small modular reactor, a decision required for the operation of a new nuclear technology in the country. It marks the first ever application for justification of a UK reactor design.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 20 July 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-justification-decision-sought-for-Rolls-Royce-S
Framatome has been awarded a contract by Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken AG (KKG) to modernise the reactor protection system in the emergency control building at the Gösgen nuclear power plant in Switzerland.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 06 July 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Framatome-awarded-further-contract-at-Swiss-plant
Following its annual scheduled shutdown, Kozloduy unit 5 has been restarted with 43 Westinghouse-produced cartridges loaded into the reactor as part of its transition from Russian-supplied fuel.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 13 June 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Bulgaria-s-Kozloduy-using-first-Westinghouse-fuel
Inaugural dig underway at retiring coal site for facility where sodium coolant system will be tested
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 12 June 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/bill-gates-reactor-company-breaks-ground-for-wyoming-nuclear-plant-6-2-2024
Argentina's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (Autoridad Regulatoria Nuclear, ARN) says that planned upgrades and improvements to allow a 20-year extension to the Atucha I nuclear power unit will "raise the design basis of the facility to a higher level of safety than that with which it was originally licenced".
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 06 June 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Regulator-stresses-benefits-of-Atucha-Long-Term-Op