NRG-Pallas to test fuel and materials for Kairos SMR
Friday, 21 March 2025 A rendering of the Hermes demonstration reactor plant (Image: Kairos Power) Under the contract, NRG-Pallas will conduct fuel irradiation tests in the High Flux Reactor (HFR)…
Reactor vessel assembled for El Dabaa’s first unit
Friday, 21 March 2025 (Image: Rosatom) According to Rosatom, there was continuous heating of the weld and workers used about two tonnes of flux and more than 1.5 tonnes of special…
IAEA will support Zaporizhzhia, whatever agreement is reached
Friday, 21 March 2025 IAEA staff have been at the plant since September 2022 (Image: IAEA) The six-unit Zaporizhzhia plant – Ukraine and Europe’s largest nuclear power site – has…
Costain chosen to upgrade UK enrichment plant
Thursday, 20 March 2025 The Capenhurst site (Image: Urenco) The framework is expected to see contracts awarded to Costain over a minimum of three years. Costain will lead and deliver…
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…
