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…
Alleima expands capacity as nuclear demand grows
The new facility – which includes the upgrade and reopening after 10 years of the production facility for steam generator tubes – increases the company’s capacity by 60%. Göran Björkman,…
X-energy submits Xe-100 for UK regulatory assessment
Generic Design Assessment (GDA) is a process carried out by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales to assess the safety, security, and environmental…
Urenco to build new US enrichment plant capacity
Urenco USA’s facility in Eunice, New Mexico, is currently the only commercial uranium enrichment capacity in the USA. Urenco’s decision to increase capacity by 2.1 million SWU marks its commitment to…
Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz Again and Says its Negotiating Team With U.S. is Heading to Switzerland
