UK awards GBP100 million in contracts for prototype fusion plant
In October 2022, the West Burton coal-fired power plant site in Nottinghamshire, England, was selected to host the UK’s Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP). The demonstration plant is due…
Dutch agreement paves way for construction of commercial MSR
The MoU – signed by Thorizon, EPZ, NRG-Pallas, the provinces of Zeeland and North Holland, Impuls Zeeland, ROM InWest, and Invest-NL – increases the activities for the non-nuclear demonstrator in…
CNL to produce demonstration ANEEL fuel bundles
ANEEL has been developed for use in pressurised heavy water reactors and Candu reactors (its name is taken from Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life). Clean Core Thorium Energy says it can…
ConverDyn considering building Metropolis 2.0 plant, conference told
ConverDyn, a partnership between Solstice Advanced Materials and General Atomics, is the exclusive marketing agent for all uranium hexafluoride produced at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed Metropolis Works plant. Hyder…
Application lodged to build microreactor at US university
The (CPA) was submitted on 31 March by The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, NANO Nuclear Energy Inc’s partner for the KRONOS MMR deployment at…
Growing recognition of nuclear fuel cycle’s importance, WNFC hears
Speakers at the event co-organised by the Nuclear Energy Institute and World Nuclear Association highlighted the challenges and opportunities at a time when geopolitical uncertainty means nuclear energy – underpinned by…
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa 6 resumes commercial operation
The 1,356 MWe Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) in Japan’s Niigata Prefecture, which had been offline since March 2012, was restarted in the evening of 21 January. Tepco aimed to…
Bulgarian minister wants fixed price for Kozloduy 7 and 8
Traykov was speaking during a meeting with South Korea’s Ambassador to Bulgaria, Dong-bae Kim, and representatives from Hyundai Engineering and Construction, which included a discussion on progress. According to the Ministry…
Bruce Power to share large reactor experience with SaskPower
The provincial government of Saskatchewan and utility SaskPower announced plans in January to formally evaluate large nuclear reactor technologies for use in the province. Saskatchewan already has plans for the…
Bulgarian repository officially opened
According to the Ministry of Energy the new national repository will consist of 66 reinforced concrete structures with a total capacity of 19,000 containers – or 138,200 cubic metres – of…
