Ghana’s site selection process for first nuclear plant assessed by IAEA
Monday, 24 February 2025 (Image: Nuclear Power Ghana) The Site and External Events Design Review Service mission last week included four experts from Pakistan, Turkey, the UK and the USA. It…
Another Swedish municipality named as SMR candidate site
Monday, 24 February 2025 Illustration of a multi-unit SMR campus (Image: Instance/MIT) Small modular reactor (SMR) project development company Kärnfull Next said it has signed cooperation agreements with landowners to…
Call to include nuclear in Europe’s affordable energy plan
Monday, 24 February 2025 The European Commission (Image: Pixabay) The European Commission says the Affordable Energy Action Plan will set out concrete short-term measures to deliver on competitiveness, affordability, security…
Orano looks to positive 2025 despite events in Niger
Monday, 24 February 2025 Exploration drilling at Zuuvch Ovoo in Mongolia (Image: Orano/C Amankulov Janarbek Aman) Contracts covering the return to Japan of all waste still in storage at the…
Construction starts on Lufeng unit 1
Monday, 24 February 2025 (Image: CGN) China General Nuclear (CGN) said the first concrete was poured at 11:36 on 24 February. The company said it marks “the official start of the…
Milestones for Canada’s Bruce Power units
Monday, 24 February 2025 One of the steam drums is moved into place above a row of steam generators at Bruce 3 (Image: Bruce Power) Bruce 3’s steam generators are…
Viewpoint: South Africa’s G20 Presidency – will nuclear energy be on the agenda?
Friday, 21 February 2025 (Image: Princess Mthombeni) The G20, or Group of Twenty, is a forum of major developed and developing economies established to address global economic and financial issues.…
Belgian nuclear extension financing plans approved by EU
Friday, 21 February 2025 The Doel plant in Belgium (Image: Engie) The context Under a plan announced by Belgium’s coalition government in December 2021, Doel 3 was shut down…
Western Australians support lifting uranium ban, poll finds
Friday, 21 February 2025 Exploration drilling at Kintyre, one of the four projects conditionally excluded from Western Australia’s uranium ban (Image: Cameco Australia) The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies…
Akkuyu’s first back-up diesel generator being commissioned
Friday, 21 February 2025 (Image: Akkuyu NPP) Each of the four units at the Akkuyu plant will have three diesel generators, which will be ready to operate within 15 seconds…
