Construction of the second reactor at the Hinkley Point C plant in Somerset, England, passed a major milestone with the lifting of the first part of the massive steel containment liner, EDF Energy announced yesterday. Lifted by the world's largest crane, 'Big Carl', just nine months after the same lift for the first reactor, construction of the 170-tonne liner cup was 30% quicker than the identical part on the first reactor.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Hinkley-Point-C-lift-demonstrates-benefits-of-flee
Nuclear power programmes can benefit society through the creation of high-quality employment opportunities while providing secure, reliable energy supplies, but the industry must make sure it engages in open and transparent communications with stakeholders, as well as being cost-competitive with all other forms of generation, if those benefits are to be realised. These were the feelings from an international high-level panel of nuclear industry and academic experts at World Nuclear Association's Strategic eForum 2020.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Cost-and-communication-vital-for-realisation-of-nu
Agneta Rising is standing down as director general of World Nuclear Association next month and today announced her replacement as Dr Sama Bilbao y León, currently head of the Division of Nuclear Technology Development and Economics at OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/World-Nuclear-Association-appoints-new-Director-Ge
Bruce Power and BWXT Canada Ltd have announced that they are collaborating on several projects to advance the made-in-Ontario economic recovery programme, including an estimated $55 million contract for BWXT to perform fuel channel maintenance on unit 3 at Bruce nuclear power plant. BWXT has also begun to ship steam generators to Bruce Power for unit 6.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 15 September 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbruce-power-and-bwxt-collaborate-on-life-extension-projects-8131266
US-based General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has delivered a design concept of a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) reactor to power future astronaut missions to Mars for a NASA-funded study.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 15 September 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnasa-studies-general-atomics-reactor-design-for-mars-missions-8132668
The UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and UK Research and Innovation have announced £65 million ($84m) to help make the UK the global home for future technologies in battery development, robotics and advanced healthcare treatments. Funding will be available through the government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 15 September 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-announces-funding-for-robots-batteries-and-medical-technologies-8132671
The recent shutdown of six nuclear reactors at South Korea’s Kori and Wolsong nuclear power plants during the typhoons Maysak and Haishen resulted from the failure of power supply equipment, caused by salinity carried on the wind, Hankyoreh reported on 11 September, citing an independent investigation by Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 15 September 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssix-korean-reactors-shut-down-due-to-salinity-during-recent-typhoons-8132674
A new European Union collaborative research project co-ordinated by Finland's VTT Technical Research Centre, seeks to improve the understanding of ageing and deterioration of such concrete.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 15 September 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newseurope-to-investigate-concrete-degradation-8132676
Russia’s Atommash (the Volgodonsk branch of AEM-Technologies, part of Rosatom’s engineering division, Atomenergomash) has embarked on a key stage in the manufacture of a reactor vessel for the first power unit of Kursk II.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 15 September 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsatommash-assembles-reactor-vessel-for-russias-kursk-ii-8132689
Japan’s Electric Power Development Co (J-Power) has announced further delays to construction of its Ohma nuclear power palnt in Aomori Prefecture, which is designed to operate solely on plutonium-uranium mixed oxide mox fuel.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 15 September 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfurther-delays-for-japans-ohma-8132683
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