Bureau Veritas to aid Dutch deployment of Rolls-Royce SMR
The agreement was signed during the NExSMR conference, which was held from 14-16 January in The Hague. “ULC-Energy is delighted with the collaboration with Bureau Veritas,” said ULC-Energy CEO Dirk…
Civil construction of replacement Trino waste store completed
Work on the 41-metre-long, 19-metre-wide, and 8.5-metre-high facility, which began in November 2024, involved demolishing the old storage facility and rebuilding it on the same site, with a volume equal…
Denmark begins study on potential use of nuclear energy
In 1985, the Danish parliament passed a resolution that nuclear power plants would not be built in the country. However, in a parliamentary vote in May last year, two-thirds of…
Tepco halts restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactor
The company said that control rods had been withdrawn at 19:02 local time on 21 January and the reactor restarted. “However, at 12:28 on 22 January, an alarm was triggered in…
Amentum-led consortium contracted for Dutch new-build programme
The consortium will work on the development of up to two new gigawatt-scale nuclear power plants to support the country’s strategies for decarbonisation and energy security and will support the…
First VVER-1200 fuel delivered to China for Tianwan 7
The fuel was manufactured at the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant and is part of the contract for units 7 and 8 at the plant in China’s Jiangsu province which are…
EDF seeking maximum use of existing UK reactors
EDF Energy manages the UK’s eight nuclear power plant sites, five that are operating (Sizewell B, Torness, Heysham 2, Heysham 1 and Hartlepool) and three that have entered decommissioning (Hunterston…
Laramide pulls out of Kazakh project citing law change
Canada-based uranium exploration and development company Laramide said it has terminated its option agreement with Kazakhstan-registered Aral Resources for the Chu-Sarysu Project with immediate effect. The three-year agreement, signed in…
EnergySolutions sets date for Kewaunee licence application
In May 2025, EnergySolutions and WEC Energy Group announced their plans to explore new nuclear energy generation at Kewaunee, where a 566 MWe (net) pressurised water reactor operated from 1974…
Tepco restarts Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactor
“Today, we received approval from the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) to begin test operation of the reactor to confirm the integrity of the equipment, including a pre-operational operator inspection to…
