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The Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD), which owns and operates the Cooper NPP, is studying possible sites for a small modular reactor (SMR). The project is to be financed through legislative bill 1014 approved in April 2022 that appropriated $1.04bn allocated to Nebraska from federal pandemic relief funds. As an owner of Cooper Nuclear Station, NPPD qualified to apply for the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding. Its application for funds, submitted in 2022, has now been approved by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development.

Date: Thursday, 26 January 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnebraska-to-investigate-possible-smr-sites-10541346

Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) - operator of the Cooper nuclear power plant - has begun the process to identify sites that have the potential to host small modular reactors (SMR) after receiving state-allocated funding for the study.

Date: Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nebraska-begins-SMR-siting-study

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) under construction at Saint-Paul-les-Durance in southern France is facing more delays, ITER director general Pietro Barabaschi said in an interview with AFP.

Date: Friday, 13 January 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-delays-for-iter-10511382

Unit 3 of China's Fangchenggang NPP in Guangxi Autonomous Region has been connected to the grid for the first time, according to China General Nuclear (CGN). The 1,180 MWe pressurised water reactor (PWR) is the first of two Hualong One (HPR1000) demonstration reactors under construction at the site and is scheduled to begin commercial operation in the second half of 2023. The unit was synchronised to the grid, "indicating that the unit is capable of generating electricity and moving towards the goal of commercial operation”, CGN said.

Date: Friday, 13 January 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschinas-fangchenggang-3-connected-to-the-grid-10511440

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project has given a progress update on tackling the defects discovered last year in the thermal shields and vacuum vessel sector. It hopes to tender for the thermal shield work, and have a contractor in place, by the end of March.

Date: Friday, 13 January 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/ITER-to-replace-23km-of-cooling-pipes-on-thermal-s

Unit 3 of the Fangchenggang nuclear power plant in China's Guangxi Autonomous Region has been connected to the grid for the first time, China General Nuclear (CGN) announced. The unit - the first of two demonstration Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors at the site - is scheduled to enter commercial operation in the second half of 2023.

Date: Thursday, 12 January 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/CGN-s-first-Hualong-One-reactor-starts-supplying-e

China General Nuclear (CGN) has said that unit 3 at its Fangchenggang NPP in Guangxi Autonomous Region will begin operation in first half of 2023, postponed from the second half of 2022. Fangchenggang 3 is the first of two demonstration Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors under construction at the site. In an announcement published on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange website, CGN Power said: "The company has recently made an overall evaluation of the construction of the Fangchenggang unit 3 in order to realise the high-quality operation of the first reactor of the demonstration projects of HPR1000 technology of the company and to ensure the long-term safe and stable operation of the unit when put into operation." 

Date: Friday, 23 December 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscgn-postpones-start-up-of-unit-3-at-its-fangchenggang-npp-10456755

Unit 3 of the Fangchenggang nuclear power plant in China's Guangxi Autonomous Region will now not begin operation until the first half of 2023, China General Nuclear (CGN) announced in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The unit - the first of two demonstration Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors under construction at the site - had been due to start up in the second half of 2022.

Date: Thursday, 22 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Delay-to-start-up-of-CGN-s-first-Hualong-One-unit

The manufacture of the reactor pressure vessel for the first of two EPR units at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset, UK, has been completed in France and the large component is ready for delivery to the construction site.

Date: Saturday, 17 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-reactor-vessel-for-Hinkley-Point-C-completed

The world’s largest crane, called 'Big Carl', lifted the 304-tonne steel liner ring on to the first reactor building at Hinkley Point in the early hours of Monday.

Date: Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/In-Pictures-World-s-largest-crane-lifts-304-tonne