Cold testing completed at Changjiang unit 3

Friday, 11 April 2025 (Image: China Huaneng) Cold functional tests are carried out to confirm whether components and systems important to safety are properly installed and ready to operate in…

Surveys show US public support for nuclear energy

Friday, 11 April 2025 Vogtle units 3 and 4 in Georgia, where support for nuclear is amongst the highest (Image: Georgia Power) In the poll commissioned by Radiant Energy Group,…

Tenders submitted in UK SMR selection process

Friday, 11 April 2025 (Image: Composite of the bidders’ proposed SMRs) There were initially six companies shortlisted by Great British Nuclear (GBN), the arms-length body set up to oversee the UK’s…

Concreting of Pallas foundation under way

Thursday, 10 April 2025 (Image: NRG-Pallas) NRG-Pallas applied in June 2022 to the Dutch regulator, the Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ANVS), for a permit to construct and…

Proposal for Norwegian SMR power plant progresses

Thursday, 10 April 2025 (Image: TBU) Norsk Kjernekraft submitted a proposal to Norway’s Ministry of Energy in November 2023 for an assessment into the construction of the small modular reactor…

‘Great opportunities ahead’ for fuel cycle

Thursday, 10 April 2025 Gitzel, Butcher and Bilbao y León (Image: World Nuclear Association) Kicking off the annual event in Montreal on 9 April, World Nuclear Association Director General Sama…

DOE selects first recipients of HALEU

Thursday, 10 April 2025 HALEU fuel pellets (Image: INL) HALEU – uranium enriched to contain between 5% and 20% uranium-235 – will be used by many advanced reactors which are…

Deep Yellow defers Tumas decision pending price improvement

Wednesday, 9 April 2025 (Image: Deep Yellow) In January, the Australian company had said it expected to be ready to make a final investment decision – or FID – on…

Aalo unveils microreactors option for data centres

Wednesday, 9 April 2025 (Image: Aalo Atomics) The Austin, Texas-based company says the Aalo Pod is “purpose-built to provide fast, reliable, clean, safe, and scalable on-site power for modern data…

Production starts of Paks 6 reactor vessel

Wednesday, 9 April 2025 (Image: Paks II Ltd) Workers at the AEM-Spetsstal plant in St Petersburg – part of Rosatom’s Machine-Building Division – have begun forging a batch of blanks…