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…
Pilot non-nuclear SMR plant to be built in Finnish coal-fired plant
Tuesday, 6 May 2025 (Image: Steady Energy) Steady Energy and energy firm Helen have signed an agreement to lease the decommissioned Salmisaari B power plant building as a space for…
EDF court injunction blocks Czech-KHNP contract signing
Tuesday, 6 May 2025 Dukovany’s four units started up in the 1980s (Image: CEZ) The regional court granted the injunction – which lasts until EDF’s case is heard in full…
US Administration’s initial proposal sees cuts to nuclear energy budget
Tuesday, 6 May 2025 Energy Secretary Chris Wright pictured during a meeting with US national laboratory directors in February (Image: DOE/Donica Payne) Donald Trump’s discretionary budget request for fiscal year…
