Germany narrows search for radioactive waste repository location
The Law on the Search and Selection of a Site for a Repository for High-Level Waste stipulates a multi-phase search for a site with the best possible safety precautions and the…
Antares, BWXT in TRISO fuel procurement deal
The announcement comes shortly after the US Department of Energy approved the Nuclear Safety Design Agreement for Antares’s first electricity-producing reactor, known as Mark-1. Under the agreement with BWXT Advanced…
Westinghouse to conduct key study for AP1000 in Slovakia
The six-month study, funded in part by a grant from the US State Department’s Foundational Infrastructure for Responsible Use of Small Modular Reactor Technology (FIRST) Program, will advance engineering, licensing…
Turkish oil refiner to consider SMR deployment
Scheduled to take about one year, the study is intended to examine various US small modular reactor (SMR) technologies and assess their technical maturity, licensing status, safety and security frameworks,…
US government loan to support Constellation uprates
In March this year, the Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Utility Power Reactor Incremental Scaling Effort (UPRISE) initiative aiming to get 5 GW of additional nuclear capacity by 2029…
Nuclear is Ethiopia’s next chapter, PM says
The Commission was established last year as the African country officially launched a nuclear energy programme. In a YouTube video shared to mark his visit to view the Commission’s facilities,…
Togo signs nuclear energy MoU with Rosatom
The agreement was signed during the Russia-Africa Summit taking place in Moscow. According to Rosatom the MoU will also consider non-power applications of nuclear technology and steps to develop workforce…
Hyundai Engineering agrees to cooperate with US SMR developers
The MoU with NANO Nuclear Energy – which is developing a micro modular reactor based on a high-temperature gas reactor – aims to establish a framework for potential collaboration to…
Nuclear fuel delivered for Bangladesh’s second unit
The delivery was by cargo plane and then by road. The fuel assemblies were produced at the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant, which is part of Rosatom’s fuel division TVEL. They…
NVIDIA to consider data centres at former German nuclear sites
PreussenElektra – a subsidiary of EOn Group – is responsible for the decommissioning and dismantling of eight nuclear power plants in Germany. All of the company’s plants have now been…
