Foundation in place for new Dutch research reactor
Friday, 9 May 2025 (Image: NRG-Pallas) NRG-Pallas applied in June 2022 to the Dutch regulator, the Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection, for a permit to construct and operate…
First concrete for US advanced reactor
Thursday, 8 May 2025 Concrete pouring begins in the first of Hermes’ 51 foundational piers (Image: Kairos) Kairos broke ground for the scaled demonstration of its KP-HFR fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature…
Metal cutting begins for nuclear icebreaker Stalingrad
Thursday, 8 May 2025 (Image: JSC Baltic Shipyard) There are currently a series of Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreakers operating – the Arktika, Sibir, Ural and the Yakutia – or under construction – the Chukotka and Leningrad. Work on…
OPG gets go-ahead to build first SMR in Canada
Thursday, 8 May 2025 The Darlington New Nuclear Project site (the existing Darlington nuclear power plant can be seen in the background) (Image: OPG) It will be the first new…
Construction of second Shidaowan Hualong One begins
Thursday, 8 May 2025 (Image: China Huaneng) The company plans to construct four Hualong One reactors, in two phases, at Shidaowan with a total installed capacity of 4.8 GWe. China’s…
Pivotal laser enrichment demonstration testing under way
Thursday, 8 May 2025 (Image: Pixabay) The testing programme at the Wilmington, North Carolina facility is expected to be a pivotal validation of large-scale enrichment performance under operationally relevant conditions,…
Supplier contracts signed relating to KHNP Czech project
Wednesday, 7 May 2025 (Image: CEZ) The signing of the contracts and agreements between the firms came despite a court injunction secured by France’s EDF on Tuesday which prohibited the…
Manufacture of ITER superconducting magnet system completed
Wednesday, 7 May 2025 The central solenoid module (Image: General Atomics) Each 4-metre-tall, 110-tonne cylindrical module is wound from about 6 kilometres of niobium-tin superconducting cable and requires more than…
Installation begins of overhead crane at BREST-OD-300
Wednesday, 7 May 2025 (Image: Rosatom) The double-girder crane has a lifting capacity of 280 tonnes and is being installed at a height of 29.6 metres and the six-month installation…
Google to fund development of three nuclear power sites
Wednesday, 7 May 2025 (Image: Sundry Photography – stock.adobe.com) The aim is that each of the three sites would have “at least 600 MW of capacity”. The value of the…
