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Ukraine’s Zaporizhia NPP (ZNPP) has completed drilling ten groundwater wells, bringing the plant closer to having a longer-term solution for the provision of cooling water to the shutdown reactors after destruction of the Kakhovka dam in June, according to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi.

Date: Thursday, 28 September 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswater-supply-for-zaporizhia-nears-solution-11175519

Russia’s DV Efremov Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus (NIIEFA, part of Rosatom) says a Japanese test assembly has completed testing for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), under construction in France. Eight elements of a prototype divertor, passed 6,000 test cycles at loads from 5 to 20 MW per square metre, confirming "the compliance of the Japanese element with the highest requirements" of ITER. The tests were carried out at the ITER Divertor Test Facility (IDTF) in St Petersburg, which supports tasks for the ITER project.

Date: Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-niiefa-tests-japanese-component-for-iter-11000375

Unit 1 at Russia’s Smolensk NPP has been closed for a scheduled maintenance outage during which major work will be carried out to restore characteristics of the graphite stack of the reactor in addition to replacing the technological channels. This procedure (URH) has already been performed on the RBMK reactors at the Leningrad and Kursk NPPs but never before at Smolensk.

Date: Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmolensk-npp-to-restore-graphite-stack-at-the-unit-1-rbmk-reactor-10952649

Rosatom is considering construction of a pilot nuclear thermal power plant (ATST) Elena-AM, designed for use in small remote villages. According to documents posted on Rosatom’s public procurement website, the contract price for development of the reactor project is RUB 3bn ($39m).

Date: Saturday, 01 April 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-plans-development-of-pilot-nuclear-thermal-power-plant-10722439

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, on 28 April, returning from Ukraine, briefed journalists on his visit to the Chernobyl NPP, including the results of initial radiation monitoring conducted by IAEA experts in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and his talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Date: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-director-general-returns-from-ukraine-report-issued-9669727

Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 16 March that the Zaporozhye NPP (ZNPP) had lost connection to a third power line but that two others remained available and there was no safety concern, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.

Date: Friday, 18 March 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-and-ukrainian-regulator-provide-updates-on-nuclear-facilities-9558886

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it had been told that Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant has lost connection to a third power line, but two others remain available.

Date: Friday, 18 March 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/No-safety-concern-as-Zaporozhe-loses-third-power-l

Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 13 March that Ukrainian specialist teams had succeeded in repairing a power line needed to resume external electricity supplies to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, four days after they were completely lost at the Russian-controlled site, director general Rafael Mariano Grossi said.

Date: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrepairs-underway-at-ukraines-nuclear-sites-9546939

The ITER group, in a ceremony on 28 July marked the start of the machine assembly of the international experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor under construction at Cadarache in France.

Date: Friday, 31 July 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsassembly-of-iter-begins-in-france-8053044

On 31 March, the first 10kV power supply section was connected to unit 2 of the Belarus nuclear power plant, which is being built in Ostravets by Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.  

Date: Friday, 03 April 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newspower-supply-installed-for-belarus-2-7854209