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Ministerial declaration puts nuclear at heart of climate action

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.


ENEC and Kazatomprom sign commercial uranium contract

Published: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:11:56 GMT

Kazakhstan’s Kazatomprom has signed its first commercial uranium fuel supply contract with the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, for the United Arab Emirates' Barakah nuclear power plant.


Moon base micro-reactor concept unveiled by Rolls-Royce

Published: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:48:40 GMT

The results of a UK Space Agency backed research programme have been unveiled by Rolls-Royce, with the company saying it aims to have a micro-reactor ready to send to the Moon by the early 2030s.


KHNP touts i-SMR to international audience

Published: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:23:41 GMT

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power has used the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, UAE, to launch its new Innovative SMR technology and its i-SMR powered Smart Net-Zero City model. The company has agreed to cooperate with Indonesian and Jordanian partners to investigate the deployment of i-SMR units.


Further interest in Steady Energy SMR for district heating

Published: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 12:47:11 GMT

Steady Energy - Finnish developer of the LDR-50 small modular reactor - has signed a letter of intent with municipal energy company Kuopion Energia that includes an option for the construction of up to five district heating reactors starting in 2030.


Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant suffers eighth power blackout

Published: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 12:46:24 GMT

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant lost off-site power for the first time since May, and had to rely on emergency diesel generators for nearly five hours at the weekend, prompting renewed safety concerns amid the on-going war.


Indian unit reaches construction milestone

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.


Contract awarded for construction of Shin Hanul 3 and 4

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.


Texas uranium operation returns to production

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.


Japan and EU mark first plasma from JT-60SA fusion device

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.