In pictures: Final module installed at Haiyang 4
The CB-20 module will store more than 3,000 tonnes of water, which can be used to help cool the reactor in an emergency. The water can also be directed into…
SGE-led team targets 14 BWRX-300 SMRs in UK
SGE (formerly Synthos Green Energy) submitted the application under the UK’s Advanced Nuclear Framework for reactors which could provide 4.2 GW of capacity, equivalent to 11% of current UK power…
State support needed to make new Swiss reactors viable, report says
investigated under which conditions the construction of new nuclear power plants may make financial sense for Switzerland’s future energy system. The findings of the study are based on four different…
Scottish sites suitable for nuclear new build, study says
The Energy Secretary commissioned Great British Energy – Nuclear (GBE-N) in late 2025 to conduct a technical study into potential suitable areas in Scotland for possible new nuclear developments in…
Commonwealth Fusion Systems joins UKAEA’s tritium blanket testing programme
Future fusion power plants will rely on two hydrogen isotopes – deuterium and tritium – to produce energy. Deuterium can be readily extracted from seawater. Tritium, however, is scarce in…
Russia and Rwanda hold first nuclear energy joint committee meeting
The meeting, co-chaired by Rosatom Deputy Director General Kirill Komarov and Lassina Zerbo, Chairman of the Rwanda Atomic Energy Board and advisor to Rwanda’s president, pictured above signing the agreement,…
US uranium project completes federal permitting process
This follows an Environmental Assessment and a Finding of No Significant Impact in support of the licence issued by the commission earlier this month. The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM)…
Fuel loading begins at Slovakia’s Mochovce 4
The Nuclear Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic issued notice of its commissioning permission for the new unit on 22 May, with the go-ahead confirmed on 24 June following a…
More new capacity online at US uranium enrichment plant
The new cascade is part of a programme that began in 2025 to install 700,000 separative work units (SWU) of enrichment capacity by early 2027. The capacity expansion – part…
In pictures: Akkuyu 2’s inner dome lifted into place
A heavy duty crawler crane was used for the lift in an operation which took about seven hours in total. (Image: Akkuyu NPP) It involved more than 40 specialists at…
