Framatome awarded I&C upgrade work at Swiss plant
Thursday, 27 March 2025 The Leibstadt plant (Image: KKL) Instrumentation and control systems – or I&C – coordinate the operation of all the components that make up a nuclear power…
Minister announces funds for new reactor as Safari-1 turns 60
Thursday, 27 March 2025 Ramogkopa pictured at Safari-1’s 60th anniversary celebration (Image: Necsa/X) Addressing the celebrations held by the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa (NECSA) on 25 March, Ramokgopa…
German nuclear association calls for restart of reactors
Thursday, 27 March 2025 Unit 2 of the Isar plant was one of the last units to shut down (Image: PreussenElektra) In August 2011, the 13th amendment of the Nuclear…
President signs bill on funding for Polish nuclear power plant
Thursday, 27 March 2025 How the plant in Pomerania could look (Image: PEJ) In November 2022, the then Polish government selected Westinghouse AP1000 reactor technology for construction at the Lubiatowo-Kopalino…
Proposed reactor designs ‘seem suitable’, Dutch regulator concludes
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 The Borssele nuclear power plant (Image: Amentum) In December 2021, the Netherlands’ new coalition government placed nuclear power at the heart of its climate and energy…
Eighth NuScale SMR simulator opened
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 (Image: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Installed in February, the Energy Exploration (E2) Centre at the Jonsson Engineering Center – a hub of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of…
Japan, Korea develop prototype nuclear batteries
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 The uranium battery concept (Image: JAEA) The uranium storage battery utilises depleted uranium (DU) as the negative electrode active material and iron as the positive one,…
Podcast: Canada’s leading role in life-saving medical isotopes
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 He outlines the life-saving diagnostics and treatments that now exist thanks to isotopes produced in Canada’s Candu reactors, research reactors and cyclotrons, and talks about the…
ExLabs, Antares to develop nuclear-powered spacecraft
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 (Image: ExLabs) Through the partnership, Antares’ microreactor technology will be integrated into ExLabs’ Science Exploration and Resource Vehicle (SERV), establishing a high-power spacecraft platform for Geostationary…
US DOE re-issues SMR funding solicitation
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 Chris Wright (Image: DOE) The funding to de-risk the deployment of Generation III+ light-water small modular reactors (SMRs) is offered through two tiers. Tier 1 –…
