EDF aims to maintain output of UK nuclear fleet in years ahead

Tuesday, 28 January 2025 The Sizewell B plant (Image: EDF Energy) EDF manages the UK’s eight nuclear power plant sites, five that are operating (Sizewell B, Torness, Heysham 2, Heysham…

Lightbridge and Oklo aim to co-locate fuel fabrication facilities

Tuesday, 28 January 2025 (Image: Lightbridge/Oklo) Lightbridge Fuel is a proprietary next-generation nuclear fuel technology for existing light water reactors and pressurised heavy water reactors. The company says the metallic…

US NRC adds ‘enabling’ focus to mission statement

Tuesday, 28 January 2025 NRC’s Maryland headquarters (Image: Michael Grizer/NRC) The new mission statement says: “The NRC protects public health and safety and advances the nation’s common defence and security…

Major contracts awarded for OPG SMR and life extension projects

Tuesday, 28 January 2025 Minister Stephen Lecce (centre) visited BWXT’s Cambridge facility for the announcement (Image: Stephen Lecce/X) The separate contracts are worth more than CAD1 billion (USD696 million) in…

Uranium production resumes at Inkai

Monday, 27 January 2025 Inkai: back in operation (Image: Kazatomprom) The Kazakh national atomic company announced in its Q4 operations and trading update: “As was announced on 2 January, JV…

Second NuScale SMR steam generator tube contract for Alleima

Monday, 27 January 2025 How a NuScale SMR plant could look (Image: NuScale) In June 2023, Alleima was awarded a similar order by Doosan Enerbility for steam generator tubes for…

Phoenix Manufacture to help industrialise XAMR

Monday, 27 January 2025 (Image: Naarea) The aim of this partnership is to structure the industrialisation of the XAMR, integrating the key phases of the project: design, prototyping, first-of-a-kind (FOAK)…

Feasibility results announced for Zambia uranium project

Monday, 27 January 2025 The Muntanga project is located to the north of Lake Kariba, about 200 kkm south of Lusaka (Image: GoviEx) The Vancouver-based company said the NI 43-101-compliant…

Czech minister says KHNP contract timetable still on track

Friday, 24 January 2025 Dukovany’s four units started up in the 1980s (Image: CEZ) According to a statement from the Czech Republic’s trade ministry, they also discussed the recent agreement…

UK to cut legal hold-ups to infrastructure projects

Friday, 24 January 2025 The proposed Sizewell C plant (Image: EDF Energy) “Current excessive rules mean unarguable cases can be brought back to the courts three times – causing years…