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Reactors will be first in country to use US-based Westinghouse AP1000 technology
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 16 April 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/ceremony-marks-start-of-construction-at-two-new-khmelnitski-nuclear-plants-4-1-2024
In a wide-ranging interview for the World Nuclear News podcast, Bannerman Energy’s CEO Brandon Munro outlined the major changes in the global uranium and wider nuclear fuel sector as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war - and gives his advice on winning people over to nuclear energy.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 21 March 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/In-Quotes-Bannermans-Brandon-Munro-on-war-s-impa
Latest updates, 8 March:
• Ukraine regulator says nuclear power stations operating safely
• But warns of ‘interference’ in work of staff at Zaporozhe
• Says scheduled maintenance at Chernobyl unable to take place
• CERN council suspends Russia’s observer status
• IAEA director general restates willingness to travel for talks on safety of nuclear sites
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 09 March 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukraine-regulator-s-concerns-over-nuclear-sites
The UK, as host of the next round of UN climate talks, must take the opportunity to show how nuclear energy is essential to decarbonisation, Tim Stone, chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association, said at a Westminster Energy Forum conference last week. "In fact, I would go as far as to say: No nuclear? No net zero."
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 19 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Finance-need-not-be-harder-than-physics,-says-NIA
US Centrus Energy Corp (formerly known as USEC) announced on 2 October that it had been awarded a $15 million work authorisation by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) to prepare the K-1600 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for demolition. Centrus has leased K-1600 - the former K-25 site - from the DOE since 2002 to test and demonstrate its uranium enrichment technology. The company has also been conducting centrifuge manufacturing, engineering and design at its own nearby Technology and Manufacturing Centre (TMC) in south Oak Ridge, at the former Boeing plant.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 05 October 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-awards-centrus-15m-for-decommissioning-work-6786749
It is now 75 years since the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn and colleagues in Berlin. It is also 60 years after US president Dwight Eisenhower's UN address later known as the 'Atoms for Peace' speech, which essentially started the international nuclear supply industry.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 05 February 2014
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-power-and-the-civil-military-link-4171667