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US-based Westinghouse Electric Company has formally submitted an application to the UK Department of Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) for approval to enter the General Design Assessment (GDA) process for its AP300 small modular reactor (SMR).

Date: Friday, 16 February 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswestinghouse-applies-for-uk-generic-design-assessment-for-its-ap300-smr-11519660

The company has formally submitted an application to the UK Department of Energy Security and Net Zero for approval to enter the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) for the AP300 small modular reactor.

Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Westinghouse-begins-UK-licensing-process-for-AP300

Rolls-Royce announced that its 470MW small modular reactor (SMR) design is entering the UK's Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process with regulators – the Office for Nuclear Regulation, the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales. 

Date: Tuesday, 08 March 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrolls-royce-smr-entering-regulatory-assessment-process-9531670

The UK's Environment Agency (EA) has published its assessment so far of the UK Hualong One pressurised water reactor (UK HPR1000) as it invites public comment on this proposed new reactor design. The UK HPR1000 is the Hualong One design that General Nuclear Services (GNS) - a subsidiary of EDF and China General Nuclear (CGN) - proposes to use at a prospective new nuclear power plant in Bradwell, England.

Date: Tuesday, 12 January 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-HPR1000-design-opened-for-public-comment

The UK has opened for consultation its assessment of a new financing model aimed at reducing the cost of new nuclear power plant projects by having consumers pay upfront through their energy bills. A solution is needed urgently because nuclear energy is seen as a vital part of the government's commitment to cutting the country's carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. Seven of the UK’s eight existing nuclear plants are set to be retired by 2030.

Date: Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-considers-Regulated-Asset-Base-model-to-finance

The UK has opened for consultation its assessment of a new financing model aimed at reducing the cost of new nuclear power plant projects by having consumers pay upfront through their energy bills. A solution is needed urgently because nuclear energy is seen as a vital part of the government's commitment to cutting the country's carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. Seven of the UK’s eight existing nuclear plants are set to be retired by 2030.

Date: Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-considers-Regulated-Asset-Base-model-to-finance

In their latest quarterly report on the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear reactor designs, the UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), Environment Agency, and Natural Resources Wales, offer updates on their GDA of the Westinghouse AP1000 and Hitachi-GE’s UK Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (UK ABWR). The report, for November 2016 to January 2017, also considers the start of the GDA of the UK HPR1000.

Date: Thursday, 23 March 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-gda-reports-good-progress-for-ap1000-and-uk-abwr-5770316

EDF Energy CEO Vincent de Rivaz told UK parliament's Energy and Climate Change Committee on 23 March that the Hinkley Point C nuclear project in the UK will "clearly and categorically" go ahead with a final investment decision at the beginning of May. He said: "It will go ahead because we have the expertise, the supply chain and our long-standing partners CGN [China General Nuclear]. We are confident in this project and in the EPR technology."

Date: Saturday, 26 March 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-parliament-scrutinises-uk-plans-4847996

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