Milestones for Canada’s Bruce Power units
Monday, 24 February 2025 One of the steam drums is moved into place above a row of steam generators at Bruce 3 (Image: Bruce Power) Bruce 3’s steam generators are…
Viewpoint: South Africa’s G20 Presidency – will nuclear energy be on the agenda?
Friday, 21 February 2025 (Image: Princess Mthombeni) The G20, or Group of Twenty, is a forum of major developed and developing economies established to address global economic and financial issues.…
Belgian nuclear extension financing plans approved by EU
Friday, 21 February 2025 The Doel plant in Belgium (Image: Engie) The context Under a plan announced by Belgium’s coalition government in December 2021, Doel 3 was shut down…
Western Australians support lifting uranium ban, poll finds
Friday, 21 February 2025 Exploration drilling at Kintyre, one of the four projects conditionally excluded from Western Australia’s uranium ban (Image: Cameco Australia) The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies…
Akkuyu’s first back-up diesel generator being commissioned
Friday, 21 February 2025 (Image: Akkuyu NPP) Each of the four units at the Akkuyu plant will have three diesel generators, which will be ready to operate within 15 seconds…
South Korea confirms need for new reactors
Friday, 21 February 2025 An artistic impression of Shin Hanul 3 and 4 (Image: KHNP) The , a draft of which was released in May last year, was presented to…
Site location application submitted for new Kozloduy unit
Thursday, 20 February 2025 An image showing how the two new AP1000s could look at Kozloduy (Image: Westinghouse) The project company, Kozloduy NPP–New Build EAD, is state-owned via its parent…
Milestone for Wyoming uranium operation
Thursday, 20 February 2025 Inside the Irigaray central processing plant (Image: UEX/X) The Irigaray plant, in Wyoming, is the central hub to 11 satellite in-situ recovery (ISR) projects across the…
European partnerships for fast reactor development
Thursday, 20 February 2025 (Image: Tractebel) Hexana aims to develop a small modular reactor (SMR) featuring a sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor, integrated with a high temperature storage device. A plant…
Efforts continue to eliminate small fires in Chernobyl shelter’s roof
Thursday, 20 February 2025 (Image: ChNPP) Workers from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have been working at the site since the drone strike on Friday 14 February damaged the…
