Finnish University to Test Safety of SMR Designs
Wedoany.com Report-Mar 21, Finlands Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology is to build two new test facilities at its nuclear engineering laboratory on its Lappeenranta campus for research into t...
First Concrete Poured for Leningrad’s Eighth Unit
Wedoany.com Report-Mar 21, A ceremony has been held to mark first concrete being poured on Thursday for the foundation of the reactor building for unit 4 at the Leningrad II nuclear power plant in Rus...
Northstar Acquires Vallecitos for Decommissioning
Wedoany.com Report-Mar 20, US NorthStar Group Services has finalised an agreement to accept ownership of the Vallecitos Nuclear Center, in Sunol, California from GE Vernova and GE-Hitachi Nuclear Ener...
Holtec Gets $57 MM DOE Loan for Palisades Nuclear Plant Restart
Wedoany.com Report-Mar 20, United States Energy Secretary Chris Wright has announced a second loan disbursement to Holtec for the Palisades nuclear plant. The Department of Energy (DOE) released $56,7...
Kazakhstan Sets up Nuclear Energy Agency
Wedoany.com Report-Mar 20, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has appointed Almassadam Satkaliyev to head the new state body which will take over various functions and powers from Kazakhstans Energy Mini...
Brazil Aiming to Develop National Microreactor
Wedoany.com Report-Mar 20, The National Nuclear Energy Commission has begun a three-year project to demonstrate the feasibility of the development of a Brazilian 3-5 MW microreactor. The vision is for...
Urenco to Supply Fuel for Westinghouse Microreactor
Wedoany.com Report-Mar 20, Westinghouse and Urenco have signed a long-term fuel enrichment agreement under which Urenco will provide enrichment of high-assay low-enriched uranium to Westinghouse for f...
KHNP Withdraws From Competition for Netherlands Nuclear Plant Project
Wedoany.com Report-Mar 19, South Korea’s state nuclear firm has decided to withdraw from the competition for a nuclear power plant project in the Netherlands. Sources within the nuclear energy i...
Fresh Stage of Tests for VVER-S and MOX Fuel
Wedoany.com Report-Mar 19, Russias A.I. Leypunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering has begun tests to study the neutron-physical characteristics of the VVER-S reactor with MOX fuel. Based on...
Russian Regulator Approves Fourth Reactor at Kursk-II
Wedoany.com Report-Mar 18, Russia’s Federal Environmental, Technological & Nuclear Surveillance Service (Rostekhnadzor) has issued a licence to nuclear utility Rosenergoatom (electricity divisio...