Latest News

Filters

Unit 4 of the Fangchenggang nuclear power plant in China's Guangxi Autonomous Region has entered commercial operation, China General Nuclear (CGN) announced. The unit is the second of two CGN-designed demonstration Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors at the site.

Date: Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Second-CGN-Hualong-One-completes-commissioning-tes

Read more …

The UK's National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) has appointed engineering group Jacobs to help in the development of a high temperature gas reactor design that it is developing in partnership with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency.

Date: Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Jacobs-to-assist-in-development-of-UK-Japanese-HTG

Read more …

An agreement between Uzbekistan and Russia will see a six-unit small modular reactor nuclear power plant built in the Jizzakh region of Uzbekistan, with construction work due to begin as early as this summer.

Date: Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russia-set-to-build-SMR-nuclear-power-plant-in-Uzb

Read more …

Two VVER-1200 pressurised water reactor units under construction at site

Date: Saturday, 25 May 2024
Original article: nucnet.org/news/russia-ships-rpv-for-tianwan-8-nuclear-power-plant-5-5-2024

Read more …

Deputy General Director for Shipbuilding, Floating Energy and Marine Engineering at Rosatom's Atomenergomash, Vladimir Aptekarev, on the potential for floating power units.

Date: Saturday, 25 May 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Q-A-The-prospects-for-floating-nuclear-power-plant

Read more …

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has said concerns continue over the impact potential disruption to off-site power could have at Ukraine's nuclear power plants.

Date: Saturday, 25 May 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-s-Grossi-continued-concerns-over-Zaporizhzhia

Read more …

GEN energija has given its latest update on the development of plans for the JEK2 new nuclear capacity in Slovenia, putting forward likely costs and saying that from the point of view of the power network 1300 MW would be the optimal size.

Date: Saturday, 25 May 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Estimated-cost-for-JEK2-options-range-from-EUR9-4

Read more …

Leaders from the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the European Commission (EC) have highlighted the need to strengthen security of radioactive sources in open civilian facilities such as hospitals, research laboratories, and industrial facilities to prevent the use of these materials in acts of terrorism.

Date: Saturday, 25 May 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US,-EC-bodies-call-for-enhanced-security-of-radioa

Read more …

Framatome has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to carry out its first major mitigation of buried condenser feed pipes using its innovative spray-in-place structural pipe liner solution at a three-unit operating nuclear plant in the USA.

Date: Saturday, 25 May 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Innovative-piping-rehabilitation-solution-to-be-us

Read more …