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The reactor pressure vessel has been moved into place at unit 8 of the Tianwan plant in China's Jiangsu province.

Date: Saturday, 07 September 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Reactor-vessel-installed-at-Tianwan-8

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.

Date: Saturday, 07 September 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Breaking-new-ground-in-EPC

The concrete foundation of the turbine building for Akkuyu unit 3 in Turkey includes a steel reinforcement frame which measures 58.2 metres by 20.4 metres by 5.3 metres.

Date: Friday, 06 September 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Akkuyu-3-Concreting-completed-of-turbine-unit-foun

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has inspected the cooling tower affected by fire last month at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and says it is "not usable in the future, so it will probably be demolished". 

Date: Friday, 06 September 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-s-Grossi-says-Zaporizhzhia-cooling-tower-set

A draft plan including as many as 34 new nuclear power units in Russia by 2042 has been published for public consultation - they are a mix of large and small reactors, and include replacement of existing units as well as new locations.

Date: Wednesday, 04 September 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russia-s-plans-for-11-new-nuclear-reactor-plants

The first batch of VVER-440 fuel assemblies supplied by Westinghouse has been loaded into unit 2 of Finland's Loviisa nuclear power plant.

Date: Tuesday, 03 September 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Westinghouse-fuel-loaded-into-Loviisa-reactor

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi is to visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant for a fifth time, saying "my message has been loud and clear throughout this tragic war: a nuclear accident must be avoided at all costs, and a nuclear power plant must never be attacked".

Date: Saturday, 31 August 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Grossi-to-visit-Zaporizhzhia,-warns-of-war-risks-f