Korea completes delivery of ITER vessel sectors
Tuesday, 26 November 2024 (Image: Korea Institute of Fusion Energy) The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor’s (ITER’s) plasma chamber, or vacuum vessel, houses the fusion reactions and acts as a first…
Westinghouse, Core Power join forces for floating nuclear power plant
Tuesday, 26 November 2024 (Image: Core Power/Westinghouse) Floating nuclear power plants are a game-changing approach to deploying nuclear energy to islands, ports, coastal communities and industry, the companies said. Such plants…
IAEA assesses operational safety at Hungary’s Paks nuclear plant
Monday, 25 November 2024 (Image: MVM) The Paks plant is located about 180 kilometres southwest of Budapest and is owned by Magyar Villamos Művek (MVM). The existing four units at…
Applications lodged for Swiss waste disposal facilities
Monday, 25 November 2024 (Image: Nagra) In September 2022, following a 14-year site selection process, Nagra proposed Nördlich Lägern in northern Switzerland as the site of a deep geological repository,…
Iran announces enrichment expansion in response to IAEA resolution
Monday, 25 November 2024 Grossi at the Fordow and Natanz sites during his trip to Iran earlier this month (Image: AEOI) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi…
Reactor vessel installed at Haiyang 4
Monday, 25 November 2024 (Image: SPIC) The reactor pressure vessel – which houses the nuclear reactor and is the core of a nuclear power plant – was hoisted by a…
Kursk NPP preparing for medical isotope production
Monday, 25 November 2024 (Image: Kursk NPP) The company, part of state nuclear giant Rosatom, said the plan for the production of a broad range of medical isotopes had been…
Brazil’s Angra 1 approved for 20-year life extension
Friday, 22 November 2024 Angra 1 and 2 (Image: Eletronuclear) Angra 1 reached criticality in 1982 and entered commercial operation in 1985. The Westinghouse pressurised water reactor has a design…
Strategic partnership plans to develop advanced nuclear energy in South Africa
Friday, 22 November 2024 Gold mining operations at Cooke (Image: Sibanye-Stillwater) Their newly announced strategic partnership will explore opportunities worldwide related to the identification, acquisition, financing, development, and management of…
Finland and UK to work together under new nuclear energy pact
Friday, 22 November 2024 (Image: Government of Finland) The objective of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by Finland’s Minister of Climate and the Environment Kai Mykkänen and UK Minister…
