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Published: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:19:59 GMT
Twenty two countries have signed up to the goal of tripling global nuclear energy capacity by 2050, at the UN's COP28 climate change conference.
Published: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:08:31 GMT
Hot conditioning of unit 7 at the Rajasthan Atomic Power Plant has been completed, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has announced. The unit is the third in a series of indigenously designed 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors.
Published: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:29:31 GMT
A consortium led by Hyundai Engineering & Construction has been selected by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power as the contractor for the construction of the main facilities at units 3 and 4 of the Shin Hanul nuclear power plant.
Published: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 15:23:28 GMT
Uranium production has begun at enCore Energy Corp's South Texas Rosita Central Processing Plant (CPP). The restart of the plant which last produced yellowcake in 2008 is the first step in enCore's South Texas in-situ leach uranium production pipeline strategy.
Published: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:42:50 GMT
The successful operation of the Japan Torus-60 Super Advanced fusion device, the world's largest operational superconducting tokamak, has been marked by Japan and the European Union in a ceremony to inaugurate the facility.
Published: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:48:47 GMT
Much progress has been made over recent years in the representation of nuclear in national, regional and international debates on energy and the climate, speakers agreed at the opening session of the World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris this week.
Published: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:12:15 GMT
Ontario Power Generation has selected suppliers Cameco, Urenco USA, Orano and Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas for the first fuel contracts for its planned small modular reactor units at the Darlington New Nuclear Project, while TerraPower and uranium producer Uranium Energy Corp are to work together on the fuel supply chain ahead of the construction of the first-of-a-kind Natrium plant.
Published: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:37:54 GMT
Sweden's parliament has approved a bill that will clear the way for new nuclear power in the country by removing the current limit on the number of nuclear reactors in operation, as well as allowing reactors to be built on new sites. The amendment will enter into force on 1 January.
Published: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:11:15 GMT
The nuclear energy industry will be highly visible at the 28th Conference of the Parties, taking place in Dubai over the coming weeks, World Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León told delegates at the World Nuclear Exhibition 2023 in Paris.
Published: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:12:49 GMT
The contract will see Urenco continuing to supply Ukraine's Energoatom with enriched uranium until 2035, with an option to extend the contract to 2043.