IEA sees rapid potential growth in nuclear, if key challenges overcome
Thursday, 16 January 2025 IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol presenting the new report (Image: Screengrab from IEA) The report, , reviews the status of nuclear energy around the world and…
Funding boost for UK fusion R&D
Thursday, 16 January 2025 A cutaway of the STEP fusion plant (Image: UKAEA) The funding – announced by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero – will support the…
Kazatomprom sets out strategy for next 10 years
Thursday, 16 January 2025 Production at JV Inkai was suspended on 1 January (Image: Kazatomprom) The company said its objectives for 2025-2034 are interdependent and complementary and will serve as…
Sweden breaks ground for used fuel repository
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 Minister of Climate and Environment Romina Pourmokhtari was present to officially start the work (Image: SKB) Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB) applied in 2011 to the Land…
Wyoming approves permit for demo Natrium plant
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 A rendering of a Natrium plant (Image: TerraPower) Natrium technology features a 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor using high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel, with a molten salt-based…
India’s NTPC sets up nuclear subsidiary
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 (Image: NTPC) NTPC Parmanu Urja Nigam Limited (NPUNL) was incorporated on 7 January as a wholly-owned subsidiary of NTPC Limited. According to a filing by the…
UK-Dutch partnership for deployment of SMRs at industrial parks
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 The Berkeley Science and Technology Park (Image: ULC-Energy) This collaboration will initially focus on the Berkeley Science and Technology Park and the Yorkshire Energy Park, with…
Newcleo joint venture aims to develop Slovakia units
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 Bohunice has two units in commercial operation (Image: Slovenske elektrarne) The agreement with JAVYS – the state-owned radioactive waste management company – establishes a joint venture tasked with…
Reactor vessel shipped for Kudankulam’s sixth unit
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 (Image: Rosatom) The reactor vessel was produced at AEM-Technology’s Atommash production site in Volgodonsk, Rostov Oblast, travelling by road, and then river, to the port of Novorossiysk from where it takes…
NANO announces MMR rebrand on completion of USNC technology acquisition
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 A rendering of the newly renamed KRONOS MMR Energy System (Image: NANO) The acquisition also includes the Pylon Transportable Reactor Platform, as well as contracts and…
Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz Again and Says its Negotiating Team With U.S. is Heading to Switzerland
