Rostov’s first unit set for 30-year life extension
Friday, 24 January 2025 (Image: Rosatom) The Rostov plant features four VVER-1000 units and is about 13 kilometres from the city of Volgodonsk in southwest Russia. It is part of Rosatom’s…
TVA names contractors for Clinch River SMR project
Friday, 24 January 2025 An artist rendering of a proposed SMR plant at Clinch River (Image: TVA) The contractors will work with GE Hitachi – designer of the BWRX-300 SMR…
UK opts for disposal of plutonium inventory
Friday, 24 January 2025 Nuclear fuel reprocessing plant product store (Image: NDA) “Continued, indefinite, long-term storage leaves a burden of security risks and proliferation sensitivities for future generations to manage,”…
OPG awards major contract for Pickering refurbishment
Friday, 24 January 2025 Pickering (Image: OPG) The contract for works associated with the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station Retube, Feeder and Boiler Replacement project covers professional engineering services, procurement of…
Expansion of Swedish repository under way
Friday, 24 January 2025 The ceremonial start of blasting (Image: Frida Karlsson/SKB) The SFR repository is situated 60 metres below the bottom of the Baltic Sea and began operations in…
KHNP to cooperate with Scandinavian SMR project developers
Thursday, 23 January 2025 The signing of the MoU with Norsk Kjernekraft (Image: KHNP) On 20 January, in Oslo, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) signed a memorandum of understanding…
Regulator in final stages of Finnish repository licence review
Thursday, 23 January 2025 The Onkalo facility with the Olkiluoto plant in the background (Image: Posiva) Radioactive waste management company Posiva submitted its application, together with related information, to the…
Expansion of test programme for MOX fuel for VVER reactors
Thursday, 23 January 2025 (Image: Rosatom) Rosatom says that, if the proposed VVER-S reactors can use a full load of MOX fuel, it will cut its use of natural uranium…
First plasma generated in SMART tokamak
Thursday, 23 January 2025 The SMART tokamak (Image: University of Seville) SMART (Small Aspect Ratio Tokamak) is unique due to its flexibility to generate plasmas with different shapes. It will…
Sabey considers Natrium deployment at its data centres
Wednesday, 22 January 2025 A rendering of a Natrium plant (Image: TerraPower) The strategic collaboration includes exploring new Natrium plants in the Rocky Mountain region, as well as Texas, to…
