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Holtec Britain has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with South Korea’s Hyundai E&C and UK construction and engineering companies Balfour Beatty, and Mott MacDonald. The event was hosted at the Korean Embassy in London by Ambassador Yoon Yeocheol and attended by UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Korea, Sir John Whittingdale MP.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsholtec-and-hyundai-partner-with-british-companies-to-deliver-smr-technology-in-the-uk-11594510
EDF, in its annual fleet update, said it plans to invest a further £1.3bn ($1.65bn) in the UK’s five generating NPPs over 2024-26, taking the total invested in the fleet to nearly £9bn since 2009. EDF Energy manages the UK’s eight nuclear power station sites, five in operation (Sizewell B, Torness, Heysham 2, Heysham 1, Hartlepool) and three that are being defuelled pending decommissioning (Hunterston B, Hinkley Point B and Dungeness B).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsedf-may-extend-operation-of-uk-agrs-11423166
Company also looking at running Sizewell B for 20 years longer than scheduled
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 10 January 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/edf-energy-plans-to-extend-life-of-four-nuclear-stations-with-gbp1-3-billion-investment-1-2-2024
EDF Energy has announced it will invest a further GBP1.3 billion (USD1.7 billion) in the UK's five operating nuclear power plants over the next two years and plans to further extend the lives of the four operating Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) plants.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 10 January 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EDF-plans-significant-investment-in-UK-nuclear-fle
First reactor is onsite in Somerset, southwest England, and ready to be installed next year
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 16 December 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/world-s-largest-crane-used-to-lift-reactor-dome-into-place-12-5-2023
US-based Jacobs Solutions has won a new Project Management Resources (PMR) framework contract with EDF Nuclear Generation, licensee of eight NPP which account for some 16% of UK electricity output. EDF estimates the value of the new two-year contract, which starts in January 2024, at more than $53m.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 09 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjacobs-wins-new-contract-to-support-uk-npps-11282508
A temporary water desalination plant, powered with electricity from Sizewell B, is planned to meet the water requirements for the construction of the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, UK. A new water main is expected to provide a permanent supply in the early 2030s.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 03 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Desalination-plant-planned-for-Sizewell-C-construc
The defuelling of the first reactor at the UK’s Hunterston B NPP has been completed, on time and on budget, EDF Energy reported. Reactor 3 was defuelled in 16 months and work is due to start shortly on Reactor 4.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 22 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdefuelling-of-first-reactor-complete-at-hunterston-b-11164076
Last plants due to stop generating electricity in 2028
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/agr-decommissioning-milestone-as-scotland-s-hunterston-b1-defuelled-on-time-and-on-budget-9-3-2023
UK government ministers have announced the release of GBP170 million (USD218 million) funding to take forward development work to prepare the Sizewell C site "for future construction, procure key components from the project’s supply chain, and expand its workforce".
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 26 July 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-funding-seeks-to-speed-up-Sizewell-C-developmen