Blykalla applies for state aid for SMR plant
Last month, the company submitted an application to the government to construct the Norrsundet plant, which will have a total generating capacity of up to 330 MWe and an estimated…
Military action near nuclear plants puts external power needs in spotlight
Grossi, responding to a media question about whether nuclear power plant design safety standards needed to be reviewed as a result of military action near them, said safety standards were kept under constant…
Belarus targets radioactive waste disposal facility by 2030
According to the official Nikolai Mikhailov, Deputy Director of the Department for Nuclear Power Plant Operations and Radioactive Waste Management of the Ministry of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Department, outlined the…
Refurbished Bruce unit back on the grid
Major Component Replacement – or MCR – involves removing and replacing key reactor components including steam generators, pressure tubes, calandria tubes and feeder tubes and adding 30-35 years to the…
US SMR developers announce partnerships
California-based Deep Fission’s Gravity reactor is a small modular reactor (SMR) designed to be placed underground in an optimised borehole one mile (1.6 km) deep. Using traditional pressurised water reactor…
Ceremony marks reclamation work on uranium sites in Kyrgyzstan
More than 27 hectares of land were reclaimed and the volume of tailings material transported exceeded 1.4 million cubic metres, Rosatom said. In total, during nine years of the programme…
Italian bill on nuclear energy progressing through parliament
In October last year, Italy’s Council of Ministers, at a meeting chaired by Meloni, approved for final consideration a bill delegating responsibility for the reintroduction of nuclear energy in the…
Argentina sees exports as a key nuclear policy objective
The strategy was outlined in the Guidelines for the Argentine Nuclear Policy 2026 document which was published as the country marked the 76th anniversary of the founding of the National Atomic…
Dutch MSR testing facility launched
The launch of the test facility came during a visit by Dutch European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth Wopke Hoekstra to the High Tech Campus together with…
Final steam generators delivered for Akkuyu
The steam generators – which are about 14 metres long and have a diameter of 4 metres – were manufactured at the Atommash plant in Volgodonsk, which part of Rosatom’s…
