Tomari 3 meets safety requirements, regulator concludes
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 Unit 3 of Hokkaido Electric Power Company’s Tomari nuclear power plant – Japan’s newest power reactor – has moved a step closer to restarting after the…
Regulator approves South African waste facility licence transfer
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 Vaalputs is South Africa’s facility for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste (Image: NRWDI) The Vaalputs National Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility in the Northern Cape Province…
Korean SMRs to be considered for Norwegian project
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 Norway’s Trondheimsleia Kjernekraft AS and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power are to conduct a feasibility study on the construction of a power plant based on multiple…
Lightbridge fabricates enriched uranium advanced fuel sample
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 A finished enriched uranium-zirconium coupon sample is visually inspected inside a glovebox by INL and Lightbridge’s team (Image: Lightbridge) The company says this is a critical…
Dukovany landmark chimney being dismantled
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 Workers have begun to dismantle the 100-metre-tall gas flue/chimney which predates the reactor buildings at the Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant in the Czech Republic. (Image: CEZ)…
Fuel debris removal from Fukushima reactors delayed
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 The start of full-scale fuel debris removal from the damaged reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is now expected to begin in 2037 at…
Russia-Niger MoU on nuclear energy cooperation
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 A memorandum of understanding has been signed between Russia’s Rosatom and the Ministry of Energy in Niger to cooperate on using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.…
Regulatory progress for Last Energy’s UK project
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 US microreactor developer Last Energy said it remains on track to obtain a site licence decision by December 2027 for its South Wales project after successfully…
Second stage of reprocessing centre in Zheleznogorsk launched
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 The second complex of the Experimental and Demonstration Centre, which will process used nuclear fuel, has been launched, and follows an initial experimental stage. Likhachev speaking…
ENEC signs collaboration deals with Korea, USA
Monday, 28 July 2025 The Emirates Nuclear Energy Company and Hyundai Engineering & Construction are to jointly explore international nuclear energy opportunities. The announcement came days after ENEC signed an…
