DOE makes first pick for advanced fuel pilot project
Tuesday, 5 August 2025 TRISO fuel particles (Image: Standard Nuclear) The fuel line pilot programme supports the Department of Energy’s (DOE) new reactor pilot programme, which aims to have at…
In pictures: Final module in place at Haiyang 3
Tuesday, 5 August 2025 The final module – the containment water tank – has been installed at the first of two CAP1000 units under construction at the Haiyang nuclear power…
PFBR’s first-of-a-kind issues ‘being solved systematically’
Tuesday, 5 August 2025 Atomic Energy Minister Jitendra Singh told India’s parliament that a “delay in completion of the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor project is mainly due to first-of-a-kind technological issues…
Rooppur unit 1 progressesing though commissioning tests
Tuesday, 5 August 2025 A blowdown of the fresh steam pipelines in the turbine compartment has been completed at the first unit of the Rooppur nuclear power plant being built…
Regulatory approval for Indonesian site survey
Tuesday, 5 August 2025 Indonesia’s nuclear regulator has approved Thorcon’s site evaluation plan and the site evaluation management system plan for a proposed power plant based on its advanced molten…
Computer modelling confirms Mont Terri findings
Monday, 4 August 2025 A study led by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that simulations of underground radioactive waste interactions, generated by new, high-performance computing software, aligned well…
Key equipment manufactured for BREST-OD-300 reactor
Monday, 4 August 2025 Six items weighing more than 1,000 tonnes have been manufactured for the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor which is being built at the Siberian Chemical Combine…
IAEA concern after explosions heard near Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Monday, 4 August 2025 International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has repeated calls for “maximum military restraint near nuclear facilities”. There have been IAEA experts stationed at…
Polish research reactor permitted to continue operating
Monday, 4 August 2025 Poland’s National Atomic Energy Agency has issued a new operating licence for the MARIA nuclear research reactor, operation of which was suspended after its previous licence…
Delay in Flamanville 3 attaining full power
Monday, 4 August 2025 The long-delayed Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in Normandy in northern France is now expected to reach full power for the first time “before the end of…
