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Biggest expansion of UK nuclear power for 70 years
On 11 January the UK government launched its plans for the biggest expansion of nuclear power for 70 years, including the prospect of a new power station on the same scale as Hinkley...
JET delivers its final plasma pulse
Some 40-and-a-half years after delivering its first plasma pulse on 25 June, 1983, the Joint European Torus (JET) located at Culham, near Oxford, UK, delivered its final pulse, number...
UK invests in high-tech nuclear fuel HALEU
The UK will become the first country in Europe to launch a high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) nuclear fuel programme, strengthening supply for new nuclear projects. The aim is...
China’s world-first pebble bed facility goes commercial
Following a 168 hour demonstration run, China’s HTR-PM (high temperature gas cooled pebble bed module) demo facility at the Shidaowan site in Shandong Province has entered...
ENEC signs MoU with MoltexFLEX
Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with British advanced nuclear technology developer MoltexFLEX in a move that marks a significant...
Significant declarations at COP28
A historic Ministerial Declaration signed on 2 December at the COP28 UN climate change conference in Dubai by more than twenty countries has set a clear goal of tripling global...
Investors file lawsuit against NuScale after SMR cancellation
A group of investors has filed a lawsuit against Portland-based US company NuScale following the cancellation of its Small Modular Reactor (SMR) project. The complaint, filed in a...
Saskatchewan microreactor receives $80 m funding
Saskatchewan Research Council has received $80 million in government funding to operate the first eVinci ‘microreactor’ in Canada. Westinghouse and SRC signed an MOU last year to...
Mott MacDonald to explore UK nuclear prospects with KEPCO
Mott MacDonald has signed an MOU with KEPCO Engineering & Construction Company. The two companies have agreed to work together to explore the potential for constructing a...
ULC-Energy, Topsoe and Rolls-Royce SMR to co-operate on H2 production
ULC-Energy has signed an agreement with Topsoe and Rolls-Royce SMR to jointly investigate the production of hydrogen using Topsoe’s solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) technology...
Austin and CPS oppose Constellation NPP purchase
Constellation has completed its acquisition of NRG Energy’s 44% ownership stake in the South Texas Project Electric Generating Station, a 2645 MW nuclear power plant located 90 miles...
Russians ‘likely targeted Khmelnytsky nuclear plant’
The likely target of a Russian drone attack in western Ukraine was the Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant, says Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky. According to a BBC...
IAEA Update 191 – attacks on two nuclear plants, but little damage
International Atomic Energy Agency experts have assessed the damage caused by powerful explosions near Ukraine’s Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant (KhNPP), observing 26 broken windows...
EDF under nuclear cybersecurity scrutiny in UK
The UK government’s nuclear safety watchdog, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), has put nuclear company EDF Energy on notice over its cybersecurity practices.
Sheffield Forgemasters signs civil nuclear MOU
Sheffield Forgemasters, with X-energy and Cavendish Nuclear, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the next generation of UK nuclear reactors. The collaboration...
Six companies through to next stage of UK’s nuclear competition
Six companies’ designs for the next generation of nuclear reactors have been selected to progress in a UK government competition supporting the development of Small Modular...
Initial plans agreed for Poland’s first nuclear power plant
US and Polish officials have signed an agreement to go ahead with the construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant, under the Polish government’s policy to reduce its dependence...
EDF creates new UK engineering subsidiary
EDF has created EDF EPR Engineering UK, a move designed to strengthen its nuclear engineering presence in the United Kingdom and ‘optimise its project performance’. The new company is...
ZNPP risks diminish, but not military tensions
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant (ZNPP) has completed the drilling of ten groundwater wells, bringing the plant close to having a longer-term solution for the provision...