Final unit at Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant permanently shut down
Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant, in Russia’s Arctic north east, has been operating for 51 years in the permafrost zone, with its reactors operating for a combined 190 reactor-years, generating 11.6 billion…
BWRX-300 to be considered for deployment in Bulgaria
The BWRX-300 is a 300 MWe water-cooled, natural circulation SMR with passive safety systems that leverages the design and licensing basis of GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GVH’s) US Nuclear…
DOE awards USD2.7 billion to strengthen US uranium enrichment
The “historic” investment expands US capacity for low-enriched uranium (LEU) and jumpstarts new supply chains and innovations for high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU), the Department of Energy (DOE) said. The department had…
Decommissioning licence to 2055 issued for Leningrad 1
Rosatom says that the 30-year decommissioning work will “serve as a benchmark for all subsequent pressure-tube reactor dismantling projects worldwide”. The Russian state nuclear corporation says that what it calls the “Immediate…
Agreement extension enables continued development of Polish plant
In November 2022, the then Polish government selected Westinghouse AP1000 reactor technology for construction at the Lubiatowo-Kopalino site in the Choczewo municipality in Pomerania in northern Poland. In September 2023,…
Denison ready to start construction at Canadian uranium project
Regulatory, engineering, and construction planning progress over the past year has positioned Phoenix in a “construction-ready state”, the company said, and has confirmed an expected 2-year construction timeline. Provided final…
Fourth shell of BREST-OD-300 peripheral cavity installed
Ivan Babich, from theExperimental and Demonstration Energy Complex at the Siberian Chemical Combine, said: “At the moment, the pressure vessel of the BREST-OD-300 reactor block is approximately 70% assembled.” He said…
China begins construction of two new nuclear power units
The construction of Phase I (units 1 and 2) of the Bailong plant was among approvals for 11 new reactors granted by China’s State Council in August 2024. State Power…
Chinese reactor enters commercial operation
On 1 January, the 1126 MWe (net) domestically-designed pressurised water reactor completed a series of commissioning tests, including a test run lasting 168 hours, the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC)…
US enrichment companies end 2025 on high note
Centrus announced on 19 December that it had started manufacturing centrifuges at its centrifuge manufacturing factory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee – relying on a domestic manufacturing supply chain – to…
