Industry News

2022-08-01

Last Energy agrees to build ten SMRs for Polish industrial zone

Last Energy has signed a Letter of Intent with Poland's Legnica Special Economic Zone (LSEZ) and DB Energy on the construction of a power plant consisting of ten SMRs with a combined capacity of 200 MWe.
2022-07-29

Preparations under way for refurb of Chinese Candus

Canada's Candu Energy said it is conducting pre-project design and engineering work to facilitate a 30-year life extension of the two Candu reactors at the Qinshan Phase III nuclear power plant.
2022-07-28

Westinghouse, EDF to study use of accident-tolerant fuel

Westinghouse Electric Company and France's EDF are to jointly explore the functionalities of Westinghouse's EnCore accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) technology.
2022-07-27

CFS, UKAEA to collaborate on fusion research

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the USA's Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) have signed a five-year Collaboration Framework Agreement aimed at advancing commercial fusion energy.
2022-07-26

X-energy selects constructors of initial Xe-100 reactors

X-energy has selected Zachry Group and the combined team of Burns & McDonnell and Day & Zimmermann as constructors to collaborate and work with the company.
2022-07-25

Agreement on operation of Belgian reactors expected by year-end

The Belgian government and Electrabel have signed a non-binding Letter of Intent on continuing negotiations on the feasibility and terms for the operation of Doel 4 and Tihange 3 for a further ten years.
2022-07-22

Sellafield ends nuclear fuel reprocessing after 58 years

Just before midnight on 17 July, the final feed of used fuel was fed into Sellafield's Magnox Reprocessing Plant's charge machine and dissolved in nitric acid to separate out the plutonium and uranium.
2022-07-21

Construction of Egypt's first nuclear power plant under way

The first safety-related concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 1 of the El Dabaa nuclear power plant in Egypt.
2022-07-20

UK government fund to accelerate nuclear fuel supply

The UK's Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is to launch a GBP75 million (USD90 million) Nuclear Fuel Fund to boost domestic production of fuel for nuclear power reactors.
2022-07-19

Belgium asks Engie to extend Tihange 2's life

The Belgian government has asked energy company Engie to see if it can extend the operating life of Tihange unit 2 until the end of the winter peak electricity season.

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