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The UK Environment Agency (EA) has issued three new environmental permits to NNB Generation Company (Sizewell C) Limited for the new NPP planned at Sizewell in Suffolk. Sizewell C Limited applied to the EA for the permits in May 2020. The Environment Agency consulted on the application from July to October 2020 and on their proposed decision and draft permits from July to September 2022.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 31 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsenvironmental-permits-issued-for-sizewell-c-npp-10719303
The UK's Environment Agency has granted EDF Energy subsidiary NNB Generation Company (Sizewell C) Limited three environmental permits for the planned Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, England. Meanwhile, Sizewell C and Associated British Ports (ABP) are developing plans to locate a unique Direct Air Capture (DAC) facility at Lowestoft, capable of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using low-carbon heat from nuclear.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 29 March 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Environmental-permits-granted-for-Sizewell-C
EDF has confirmed plans to extend operation of unit 1 at the UK’s Heysham NPP and Hartlepool NPP for a further two years until 2026.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 15 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsedf-extends-operation-of-hartlepool-and-heysham-by-two-years-10673457
Both the stations, in the north of England, have been operating since the 1980s. EDF announced in September 2022 it was reviewing the case for a short extension.
The two stations were originally due to end generation in 2014. EDF Energy said it invested significant resources to enable the forecast to move to 2024. This has now been moved by a further two years to March 2026.
Heysham A and Hartlepool A both have two advanced gas-cooled reactor units. According to the Intrnational Atomic Energy Agency they all began full commercial operation in 1989, although the IAEA says they were first connected to the grid in either 1983 or 1984.
According to International Atomic Energy Agency data, the net capacity of all four units combined in 2,245 MW.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 10 March 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/edf-to-extend-lifetimes-of-four-reactors-at-heysham-and-hartlepool-3-5-2023
The reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for unit 1 of the UK’s Hinkley Point C NPP (HPC) has been delivered to the site from Framatome’s Le Creusot facility in Burgundy, central France. Framatome completed manufacture of the RPV in December 2022. EDF Energy said teams had spent 80,000 engineering hours on its construction. It measures 13 metres in length and weighs 500 tonnes.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 01 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsreactor-pressure-vessel-delivered-to-uks-hinkley-point-c-npp-10637024
The first new nuclear reactor for a UK power station in more than three decades has finished its journey - by barge and then road - at the Hinkley Point C site in Somerset in southwest England.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 28 February 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/In-Pictures-Hinkley-Point-C-s-first-reactor-arriv
Électricité de France (EDF) says the construction cost of the UK’s Hinkley Point C NPP set to further increase to £32bn ($38.5bn). EDF revised its cost estimate in a presentation published alongside its annual results. In May, EDF raised the price for the two EPR reactors being built at Hinkley Point to £25-26bn. The plant was scheduled to begin operation in June 2027, but an additional delay of around 15 months is now possible, EDF warned.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 22 February 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsedf-increases-cost-estimates-for-hinkley-point-c-10612738
UK company Rolls-Royce SMR has visited the sites of the decommissioned Oldbury and Berkeley NPP reactors in Gloucestershire (southwest UK) for talks with stakeholders from communities around the plants. The two unit Berkeley NPP was closed in 1988-89, and the two unit Oldbury plant in 2011-12, and are now the responsibility of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrolls-royce-visits-two-potential-uk-sites-for-its-first-smrs-10523038
The need for fast-tracked schemes is one of 129 recommendations made by former energy minister Chris Skidmore in his government-ordered net zero review titled Mission Zero.
The report calls for a “clear roadmap in 2023” for reaching final investment decision on new nuclear plants in the next parliament. It urges the government to ensure funding is in place and plans for a technology selection process confirmed.
As part of the roadmap, the government should deliver on siting strategy by 2024.
The report calls for the formation of Great British Nuclear (GBN) to be “expedited in early 2023” so that a “clear roadmap” of future schemes can be developed this year to tackle “rising power demand”.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/government-must-double-down-on-nuclear-plans-with-new-reactor-technologies-and-smrs-1-2-2023
Framatome has completed manufacture of the reactor pressure vessel (RPC) for unit 1 of the UK’s Hinkely Point C (HPC) NPP. The RPV, following some 80,000 hours of work, is ready for delivery to the construction site. It measures 13 metres in length and weighs 500 tonnes. It is designed to run continuously for 18 months between refuelling outages. The reactor core will have an average temperature of around 300°C and will be able to withstand five times more pressure than a submarine at normal operating depths, HPC said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 21 December 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfirst-rpv-completed-for-hinkley-point-c-10451587