Filter by tags: United States Rosatom Clear all tag filters
210 news articles found
During his recent visit to China, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi discussed the situation at the Zaporizhia NPP (ZNPP) with both Chinese officials and Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev. Grossi is trying to win support for a UN Security Council meeting to discuss ZNPP later in May.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 27 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newszaporizhia-npp-discussed-in-china-10888079
US-based NuScale Power has joined the Romanian Atomic Forum (Romatom) as a supporting member to champion the association’s nuclear energy goals. Romania aims to be the first country in Europe to deploy a NuScale VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) power plant. John Hopkins, NuScale President & CEO, said NuScale was “committed to advancing the secure deployment of SMRs globally”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 26 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuscale-power-joins-romanian-atomic-forum-10884712
In his latest update on the situation at the Zaporizhia NPP, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said the plant had lost all external power for several hours, underlining the extremely precarious nuclear safety and security situation at the facility and the urgent need to protect it and prevent an accident.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 24 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newszaporozhia-npp-loses-external-power-for-several-hours-10876375
Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB) signed four contracts and two agreements covering various aspects of nuclear fuel supplies with Westinghouse, The Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research and Rosatom.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 06 May 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/INB-signs-contracts-relating-to-fuel-supplies
The director of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) Khaled Touqan, said, looking forward to the next 10 years, JAEC is considering small reactors. It is looking at various possibilities including designs from Russia, Korea, France, and the UK, trying to determine the optimal technical specifications and how to adapt such reactors to the Jordanian environment, Touqan explained. He noted the potential use of small nuclear reactors for water desalination as well as power production.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 29 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjordan-considers-floating-npps-10798331
Türkiye plans to complete negotiations on the construction of a second NPP before the end of the year. Negotiations on the project for a second NPP, to be sited in Sinop in the north of the country, are scheduled to be completed before the end of the year, Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said. He told TRT television that Türkiye has received proposals to supply the plant from different countries and is evaluating them and that there is healthy competition.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 27 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstrkiye-to-decide-on-second-npp-this-year-10790373
The US has sensitive nuclear technology at a nuclear power plant inside Ukraine and is warning Russia not to touch it, according to a letter the US Department of Energy (DOE) sent to Rosatom, CNN reported. The letter, from the director of DOE’s Office of Nonproliferation Policy, Andrea Ferkile, was dated 17 March 2023. It tells Rosatom’s director general that the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Enerhodar “contains US-origin nuclear technical data that is export-controlled by the United States Government”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 22 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-warns-russia-not-to-touch-us-technology-at-zaporizhia-npp-10779550
Bangladesh has recently approved payment of $318m for payment to Russia in the Chinese currency of yuan for construction of the Rooppur NPP. At a recent meeting between the Bangladesh Finance Ministry’s Economic Relations Division and Russian officials, it was decided that the payment will be made in yuan at a Chinese bank account, Uttam Kumar Karmkar, head of the European affairs of Economic Relations Division (ERD), Ministry of Finance confirmed. He added that the transaction has not yet been completed s payment details need to be clarified and resolved.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 22 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbangladesh-pays-russia-in-yuan-for-npp-to-avoid-sanctions-10779590
Russia will switch the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant back from US-made nuclear fuel as soon as possible, according to reported comments from Renat Karchaa, an adviser to Rosenergoatom's CEO. It follows a CNN report that the US Department of Energy had sent a letter saying that the occupied plant in Ukraine "contains US-origin nuclear technical data that is export-controlled by the United States Government".
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 21 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Rosatom-ready-to-discuss-non-proliferation-and-exp
The nuclear market will be able to respond as it transitions away from the oversupply of recent years - but decisions to increase capacity in the front-end of the fuel cycle will need to be taken soon, according to speakers at World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2023 (WNFC 2023).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 21 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Market-dynamics-under-spotlight-at-WNFC-2023