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Russia supplying Generation III+ VVER technology for plant
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 18 April 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/upper-section-of-inner-containment-dome-installed-at-tianwan-8-4-3-2024
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors is to hold an emergency meeting at the request of both Russia and Ukraine to discuss attacks on the Zaporizhia (NPP), following a series of drone attacks on the plant.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 12 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-board-to-hold-emergency-meeting-on-zaporizhia-npp-11676135
Rosatom, Zaporizhia NPP, Russian media and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have all reported drone strikes against the Zaporizhia NPP (ZNPP). Drone strikes hit the ZNPP site on 7 April “in a serious incident that endangered nuclear safety and security, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said. For the first time since November 2022, the plant was directly targeted in military action that also represents a clear violation of the five basic principles for protecting the facility established by Grossi at the United Nations Security Council in May 2023, IAEA noted.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newszaporizhia-npp-attacked-by-drones-11669467
The first unit at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey is now entering the commissioning stage, with the aim of it supplying Turkey's energy system in 2025, Rosatom says.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 10 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Commissioning-work-is-beginning-at-Akkuyu-1
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi described three drone strikes at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant site as a serious incident that endangered nuclear safety and security.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 09 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Grossi-condemns-drone-strikes-at-Zaporizhzhia-site
Russia’s annual International Forum on Nuclear Energy, Atomexpo, which was recently held over two days in Sochi on the Black Sea coast set a record for the number of participating countries. Atomexpo-2024 organised by Rosatom, was held at the Sirius science & arts park in Sochi. The Sirius Federal Territory was established in 2020 has a special status and management system with an experimental legal regime. The forum attracted more than 4,500 people from 75 countries.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 29 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-atomexpo-2024-breaks-records-11641199
Serbia is seeking support from other countries on nuclear know-how and financing towards its goal of getting 1200 MW of capacity from small modular reactors, President Aleksandar Vučić told the Nuclear Energy Summit.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Serbian-president-s-appeal-as-country-aims-to-get
Nuclear plant is Russia-made VVER-1200 Generation III+ unit
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 19 March 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/lower-tier-of-inner-containment-dome-installed-at-tianwan-8-3-1-2024
Russia’s State Duma recently held a "government hour" with the participation of Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev, during which he discussed conditions at the Zaporizhia NPP (ZNPP). He emphasised that physical protection of the station has been restored. “It was destroyed during the withdrawal of the Ukrainian forces,” he said. “A special protective canopy has been created over the used nuclear fuel storage facility, which caused great concern as there were attacks on this site.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 15 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-confirms-protection-for-zaporizhia-npp-11600625
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi has held a series of talks in the southern Russian city of Sochi with President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials including Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev. This Grossi’s second meeting with Putin Russia took control of ZNPP in March 2022 as part of its special military operation in Ukraine. In October 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree formally transferring ZNPP to Russian jurisdiction under nuclear utility Rosenergoatom (part of Rosatom) – a few days before Grossi’s first meeting with Putin in St Petersburg. A Russian Federal State Unitary Enterprise, Zaporizhia NPP, has since been established by nuclear utility Rosenergoatom to operate the plant, which is now being transferred to Russian operating and safety standards.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 08 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaeas-grossi-meets-with-russian-president-putin-and-rosatom-to-discuss-nuclear-safety-at-zaporizhia-npp-11580284