Iran Strikes Loaded Kuwait Oil Tanker off Dubai

An Iranian drone hit a fully laden Kuwaiti oil tanker off Dubai early on Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks on a vessel in a month of war,…

QatarEnergy Brings U.S. LNG Online Amid Ras Laffan Fallout

Golden Pass LNG, a joint venture between QatarEnergy and ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), has achieved first production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at its first liquefaction train, marking the transition of the…

Powell: Fed Will ‘Wait and See’ Before Pulling Interest Rate Trigger

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Monday said that U.S. monetary policy is in a good place, and the Fed will wait and see how the ongoing Middle East conflict…

Korean reactor gets go-ahead to restart

Kori unit 2 – South Korea’s second nuclear power reactor – began commercial operation in August 1983. The 685 MWe pressurised water reactor’s operating permit expired on 8 April 2023,…

South Africa’s Necsa seeks SMR partnership

CEO of the state-owned South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa), Loyiso Tyabashe, said: “Through the Expression of Interest (EOI) process, Necsa seeks to gather detailed information on available SMR technologies,…

Application lodged for Poland’s first nuclear power plant

One of the key elements of the documentation submitted with the licence application is the Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR). This report is one of the most important attachments, detailing…

Holtec SMR design clears key UK regulatory stage

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…

Rooppur 1 boron flushes completed, ahead of fuel loading

The work, described as one of the key stages of preparation for the first criticality test at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant’s unit 1, was completed in what its operators described…

US Natural Gas Falls on Warmer Outlook, Growing Storage Surplus

By US natural gas futures ended lower on forecasts showing warmer weather than previously expected in the eastern US, as well as market expectations that domestic stockpiles will increase relative…