IAEA warning after drone hits used fuel facility near Chernobyl
In a briefing to the IAEA’s Board of Governors, and in a subsequent press conference, Grossi said that in a separate incident on Friday a drone had injured Russian military personnel…
Ceremony to mark first concrete for Uzbekistan SMR
The presidents of Uzbekistan and Russia, meeting in St Petersburg, joined the event via video link, with International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi among those attending in…
First criticality for US microreactor under DOE programme
The demonstration took place at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) under US Department of Energy (DOE) authorisation, with Antares saying it is the first private company to bring an advanced reactor to criticality…
Japan proposes replacement of up to 14 nuclear reactors
Prior to the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, Japan’s 54 reactors provided about 30% of the country’s electricity. However, within 14 months of the accident, the country’s…
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…
