A newly signed Memorandum of Understanding could see investment of up to GBP900 million (USD1.2 billion) in the Welsh nuclear supply chain if the Sizewell C nuclear power plant project receives the go-ahead from the UK government. The MoU between the Sizewell C Consortium and the Welsh government follows news last week that Horizon Nuclear Power had withdrawn its planning application for the Wylfa Newydd project on Anglesey.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 06 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sizewell-C-consortium-Welsh-government-sign-MoU
General Atomics (GA) has completed the construction and testing of the first of seven superconducting magnet modules that will make up the Central Solenoid of the ITER international fusion machine. The module is part of the USA's largest contribution to the fusion project, and will be shipped to the ITER construction site in France later this year.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 06 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-ITER-solenoid-module-completed
Rosatom's portfolio of foreign orders remains at the level of over USD250 billion and, in the 10-year perspective, "hovers around" USD140 billion, Director General Alexey Likhachov said yesterday during his meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The two men discussed the results of the state corporation's work in 2020, implementation of current projects, as well as the direction of strategic development, including green regulation and digitalisation of the economy.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 06 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Rosatom-s-overseas-work-unaffected-by-pandemic,-sa
The European Union should embark on a "nuclear renaissance" programme if it is to achieve its climate objectives, a new study on the bloc's climate policy has concluded. Commissioned by ECR Group and Renew Europe, the report says it is practically impossible to generate sufficient energy with wind and solar energy as there is not enough available land to meet electricity demand.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 06 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Study-calls-for-European-nuclear-renaissance
Russia’s Mayak Production Association (part of Rosatom) in Ozersk (Chelyabinsk region) announced that it is to build a new vitrification complex for high-level waste (HLW) generated at its radiochemical plant during the reprocessing of used fuel assemblies.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 05 February 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-mayak-proceeds-with-decommissioning-remediation-and-modernisation-8494308
The government of Belarus on 2 February approved the National Action Plan to implement the recommendations and proposals of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission on a comprehensive assessment of the development of the nuclear energy infrastructure in Belarus (INIR 3).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 05 February 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbelarus-to-implement-iaea-recommendations-8494322
Kozloduy said in a statement that the contract is part of the station’s efforts to diversify its fuel supplier portfolio as required by the European Union’s energy security strategy.
Diversification plans were coordinated with the Euratom Supply Agency (ESA), the body which supervises nuclear fuel supplies in the bloc.
In March 2019, ESA director-general Agnieszka Kaźmierczak said that the agency was concerned about Kozloduy’s “excessive” dependence on a single out-of-EU supplier.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 05 February 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/kozloduy-signs-contract-for-safety-assessment-of-westinghouse-fuel-2-4-2021
Climate scientist James Hansen has warned UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson that his government's decision not to block plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria, in the North West of England, means the country risks humiliation as the host of COP26. Meanwhile, the UK's Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) has published analysis showing that, although Britain remains dependent on fossil fuels, regions with both nuclear and wind power are already reaching the 2030 decarbonisation targets.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 05 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-urged-to-set-a-good-example-ahead-of-climate-ta
US energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions will likely take years to return to pre-COVID levels, according to projections in the US Energy Information Administration's (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2021. Energy-related CO2 emissions are projected to increase post-2035, but remain lower than the 2007 peak of 6 billion tonnes in the period to 2050.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 05 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-energy-sector-will-take-years-to-reach-its-new
With 10 research and innovation actions linked to nuclear, the Strategic Energy Technology Plan is "really stimulating new partnerships" across the 18 SET countries that are participating in them, Rosalinde van der Vlies, 'clean planet' director at the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission, said this week. Speaking in the plenary session of SNETP Forum 2021, she said all EU Member States have "very high standards" in safety, radiation protection and security.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 05 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/ECs-clean-planet-director-presents-role-of-nuclear
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