Fuel transfer work begins at Fukushima Daiichi unit 2
A total of 615 fuel assemblies (587 used and 28 unused) are currently stored in unit 2’s storage pool. Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) completed an initial survey of Fukushima…
Containment dome installed at Lianjiang 1
The steel dome module is an important component of the shielded building, situated on top of a steel-concrete composite structure, and supporting the passive containment cooling water storage tank. The…
In pictures: Second Hinkley Point C reactor vessel installed
Following a two-day lifting and installation operation that began on Thursday morning, the reactor vessel was installed in position within unit 2’s reactor building on Friday afternoon. Unlike the reactor…
IAEA says turbine building damage ‘consistent with impact of a drone’
The agency (IAEA) has had experts stationed at the Zaporizhzhia plant since September 2022. The six-unit nuclear power station has been under Russian military control since March 2022, and it…
Cameco, Orano take full ownership of Cigar Lake
The agreement with Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ subsidiary Tepco Resources Inc will see Cameco’s ownership in the Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan increase by 2.871 percentage points to…
ABS introduces shipping’s first nuclear-ready notation
The US-based classification society said the notation is featured in the latest American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) document, the . It has been developed “to assist vessel owners, designers, and…
Nineteen years on, companies team up for US new-build project
Fulcrum Point is an affiliate of Utah nuclear services company Hi Tech Solutions. Last year, Hi Tech Solutions signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Holtec International and the State of Utah…
Decommissioning milestone reached at Trawsfynydd
The 392 MWe Trawsfynydd Magnox nuclear power plant – the only inland nuclear power station in the UK – began operation in 1965 and was retired in 1991, with defueling…
Energoatom gets operating licence for centralised fuel storage facility
The Centralised Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility, located in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, is a dry storage site for used nuclear fuel assemblies from the country’s VVER-1000 and VVER-440 reactors.…
ITER magnet test facility begins operation
The ITER magnet cold testing programme was launched in 2023 as part of ITER’s revised approach to assembly and commissioning. The facility is located in a building at Cadarache, France,…
