First Taipingling unit enters commercial operation
On 19 April, the 1116 MWe (net) domestically-designed pressurised water reactor completed a series of commissioning tests, including a test run lasting 168 hours, China General Nuclear (CGN) said. The…
EC to examine Romanian plans for funding reactor refurbishment
In January, Romania notified the EC of its plan to support the refurbishment of Cernavoda 1 reactor, which began commercial operation in 1996 and currently supplies about 10% of the…
Kazakhstan strategy considers four nuclear power plants
The Kazakhstan Atomic Energy Agency developed the strategy, which has now been adopted. It said that “given the projected growth in electricity consumption, a project to build a fourth plant…
UK awards GBP100 million in contracts for prototype fusion plant
In October 2022, the West Burton coal-fired power plant site in Nottinghamshire, England, was selected to host the UK’s Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP). The demonstration plant is due…
Dutch agreement paves way for construction of commercial MSR
The MoU – signed by Thorizon, EPZ, NRG-Pallas, the provinces of Zeeland and North Holland, Impuls Zeeland, ROM InWest, and Invest-NL – increases the activities for the non-nuclear demonstrator in…
CNL to produce demonstration ANEEL fuel bundles
ANEEL has been developed for use in pressurised heavy water reactors and Candu reactors (its name is taken from Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life). Clean Core Thorium Energy says it can…
ConverDyn considering building Metropolis 2.0 plant, conference told
ConverDyn, a partnership between Solstice Advanced Materials and General Atomics, is the exclusive marketing agent for all uranium hexafluoride produced at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed Metropolis Works plant. Hyder…
Application lodged to build microreactor at US university
The (CPA) was submitted on 31 March by The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, NANO Nuclear Energy Inc’s partner for the KRONOS MMR deployment at…
Growing recognition of nuclear fuel cycle’s importance, WNFC hears
Speakers at the event co-organised by the Nuclear Energy Institute and World Nuclear Association highlighted the challenges and opportunities at a time when geopolitical uncertainty means nuclear energy – underpinned by…
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa 6 resumes commercial operation
The 1,356 MWe Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) in Japan’s Niigata Prefecture, which had been offline since March 2012, was restarted in the evening of 21 January. Tepco aimed to…
