Key commissioning tests completed at Tianwan 7
Hot functional tests involve increasing the temperature of the reactor coolant system and carrying out comprehensive tests to ensure that coolant circuits and safety systems are operating as they should.…
Third tier of Iran’s Bushehr 2 nuclear power unit installed
The installation of the 12 sections which make up the tier, was completed within four weeks “by domestic experts … despite adverse weather conditions”, the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI)…
Construction milestone at Chinese underground laboratory
The laboratory – in the Gobi Desert – will be used to test the suitability of the area for the long-term storage of high-level radioactive waste. It will eventually comprise…
US NRC approves Limerick digital retrofit project
The Limerick Clean Energy Center in Pennsylvania in the USA, is a nuclear power plant featuring two boiling water reactors with a combined capacity of 2,317 MW. The first unit…
CFS accelerates commercial fusion with Siemens, NVIDIA
The digital twin will leverage data from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industrial software, including its Designcenter NX for advanced product engineering and Teamcenter product lifecycle management tools, which Commonwealth…
Fuel loading under way at new Chinese units
Both units received operating licences from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on 24 December, China General Nuclear (CGN) said. The loading of the first fuel assemblies began at each…
Final unit at Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant permanently shut down
Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant, in Russia’s Arctic north east, has been operating for 51 years in the permafrost zone, with its reactors operating for a combined 190 reactor-years, generating 11.6 billion…
BWRX-300 to be considered for deployment in Bulgaria
The BWRX-300 is a 300 MWe water-cooled, natural circulation SMR with passive safety systems that leverages the design and licensing basis of GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GVH’s) US Nuclear…
DOE awards USD2.7 billion to strengthen US uranium enrichment
The “historic” investment expands US capacity for low-enriched uranium (LEU) and jumpstarts new supply chains and innovations for high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU), the Department of Energy (DOE) said. The department had…
Decommissioning licence to 2055 issued for Leningrad 1
Rosatom says that the 30-year decommissioning work will “serve as a benchmark for all subsequent pressure-tube reactor dismantling projects worldwide”. The Russian state nuclear corporation says that what it calls the “Immediate…
