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First micro-nuclear PP for Alaska
Copper Valley Electric Association, located in Glennallen, Alaska is collaborating with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, headquartered in Seattle, to determine the feasibility of...
Government awards £100m to proposed Sizewell C NPP
Plans to build the Sizewell C 3.2 GW nuclear power plant have been backed by £100 million of government funding in order to try and attract further financing from private investors.
Germany retires more reactors and lignite plants
Germany’s nuclear and coal phase-out programmes both took a step towards their completion on the last day of 2021, when the country decommissioned several GW of nuclear and lignite capacity
Olkiluoto NPP achieves first criticality
The EPR reactor installed at unit 3 of the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in Finland achieved first criticality on 21 December, power utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) announced.
UK chooses HTGR for AMR development
In a speech to the UK Nuclear Industry Association on 2 December, Greg Hands, minister of state for Business, Energy and Clean Growth, said 'excellent progress' had been made on the...
Macron says France will construct new NPPs
In a significant change to national policy, France is to begin building new nuclear reactors ‘to guarantee energy independence,’ and meet its climate change goals, president...
R-R confident of SMR delivery by 2030s
Roll-Royce has announced that following the raising of £195 million in equity funding, its Small Modular Reactor business has now been established.
Illinois NPPs reverse retirement plans
Exelon, the owner-operator of Illinois’s six nuclear power plants, has announced that the Byron and Dresden nuclear plants will continue operating rather than retire this autumn...
Inaugural meeting of the Vienna Group
The ‘Group of Vienna’ is an IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) initiative to discuss and promote nuclear technology’s roles in addressing social challenges. It includes...
US lab closes in on a key goal of nuclear fusion
Scientists at the National Ignition Facility, a science institute in Livermore, California, believe they are on the verge of achieving a longstanding goal in nuclear fusion...
Funded SMR project may be cut back
It has been reported by local press that Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, a co-operative that last year received nearly $1.3m in federal funding to pursue an SMR (small...
Nuclear startup raises millions in seed funding
The German-Canadian nuclear startup Dual Fluid, founded in January 2021, has successfully completed its first investment round. The round was fully subscribed as planned....
TerraPower and PacifiCorp to advance nuclear technology in Wyoming
PacifiCorp and TerraPower, backed by Wyoming governor Mark Gordon have announced efforts to push forward a Natrium reactor demonstration project at a retiring coal plant in Wyoming....
Vattenfall to become minority shareholder in Estonian nuke start-up
Vattenfall has signed an agreement with the Estonian nuclear energy start-up company Fermi Energia in order to become a minority shareholder of the company with a seed investment of €...
Potential solution to one of fusion energy's hottest problems
Scientists at the UK Atomic Energy Authority have successfully tested what is said to be a world-first concept, one that could solve one of the major problems in developing fusion energy.
India to build six nuclear reactors
EDF has submitted an offer to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to provide assistance in the construction of six nuclear reactors in the Indian province of Maharashtra.
Fusion research company installs UK’s biggest gas gun
First Light Fusion, a prominent company in the research field of energy generation via inertial fusion, has completed construction of a 22-metre-long two-stage gas gun as part of...
Indian Point NPP retired after 59 years
The Indian Point Energy Center permanently stopped generating electricity on 30 April when it retired its last operating nuclear reactor, Unit 3, earlier than originally planned....
UKAEA completes project to accelerate
fusion development
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has completed a pilot project working with five companies to tackle some of fusion energy’s most complex challenges.
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