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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
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
Reactor technology provider not yet confirmed
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 11 May 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/pej-could-announce-two-possible-sites-for-second-nuclear-station-this-year-5-3-2023
Critics argue that switching off reactors will deprive country of low-emission power and increase reliance on fossil fuel plants that contribute to climate change
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 27 April 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/last-three-plants-to-go-offline-despite-last-minute-appeals-for-extensions-4-4-2023
Companies eyeing coal sites and plan to have pilot plant connected to grid by 2029
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 25 April 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/energoatom-and-us-based-holtec-sign-agreement-for-up-to-20-smr-160-nuclear-reactors-4-1-2023
Up to 20 Holtec SMR-160 plants will be built in Ukraine under a cooperation agreement signed between Holtec International and Ukrainian national nuclear operator Energoatom. The agreement calls for the first plant to begin supplying power by March 2029.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 25 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Accord-sees-mass-deployment-of-Holtec-SMRs-in-Ukra
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