Finnish university to test safety of SMR designs
Thursday, 20 March 2025 A multiple LDR-50 unit plant (Image: Steady Energy) One of the facilities – to be built over the next two years – will model passive decay…
Can a guide to Sweden’s repository last 100,000 years?
Thursday, 20 March 2025 (Image: Linköping University) Sweden’s radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB) submitted applications to build Sweden’s first nuclear fuel repository and an encapsulation plant to…
Kazatomprom updates national president on performance and plans
Thursday, 20 March 2025 Yussupov briefed President Tokayev on Kazatomprom’s results and plans (Image: Akorda) Announcing Kazatomprom’s 2024 full-year financial results on Wednesday, CEO Meirzhan Yussupov said the company’s Board…
Hydraulic tests completed at Bangladesh’s Rooppur 1
Thursday, 20 March 2025 (Image: Rosatom) The two-unit Rooppur nuclear energy plant will be Bangladesh’s first. It will feature two VVER-1200 reactors, being built by Russia’s Rosatom. Hydraulic 24.5 MPa…
First concrete poured for Leningrad’s eighth unit
Thursday, 20 March 2025 (Image: Rosatom) Leningrad units 1 and 2 – both 1000 MWe RBMK units – shut down in 2018 and 2020, respectively. As the first two of…
KHNP pulls out of Dutch reactor project
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 The Borssele plant (Image: EPZ) In December 2021, the Netherlands’ new coalition government placed nuclear power at the heart of its climate and energy policy. Based…
Brazil aiming to develop national microreactor
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 (Image: Adobe Stock) The vision is for the microreactor to fit within a 40-foot container and be operated remotely for more than 10 years without any…
EBRD representatives inspect Chernobyl shelter damage
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 (Image: ChNPP) During the visit they inspected the shelter – the New Safe Confinement (NSC) – and held meetings with Chernobyl nuclear power plant (ChNPP) leaders. The…
Urenco to supply fuel for Westinghouse microreactor
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 From left to right: Tarik Choho, Westinghouse President of Nuclear Fuel, Laurent Odeh, Urenco Chief Commercial Officer and Kallie Metzger, eVinci Fuel Director (Image: Westinghouse) “This…
Kazakhstan sets up nuclear energy agency
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 President Tokayev announced the new agency at the National Kurultai (Image: Ministry of Energy/Facebook) Separate decrees signed by Tokayev on 18 March as a state body…
