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2021-10-27
UK government adopts new financing model for nuclear projects
The Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill, which will use the Regulated Asset Base (RAB) model to fund future nuclear power stations in the UK, has been set out by the country's Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng.
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2021-10-26
Mihama 3 offline for completion of terrorism countermeasures
Kansai Electric Power Company took unit 3 of its Mihama nuclear power plant in Japan's Fukui Prefecture offline on 23 October as it could not meet today's deadline set by regulators to implement antiterrorism measures.
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2021-10-25
Lightbridge fuel moves closer to irradiation testing
Lightbridge Ltd has completed work to design an experiment for the irradiation of samples of its metallic fuel material in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
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2021-10-22
New Bruce Power business to focus on nuclear-complimentary technologies
Bruce Power has launched Bruce Power Net Zero Inc to leverage the net-zero generation provided by Bruce's nuclear power plants to enable the company to achieve its own ambition to be net-zero by 2027.
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2021-10-21
GEH, BWXT team up to support BWRX-300 deployment
GEH and BWXT Canada have entered into a teaming agreement to cooperate on engineering and procurement to support the design, manufacturing and commercialisation of the BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR).
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2021-10-19
IAEA takes the case for nuclear to COP26
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has made the full case for nuclear to be deployed rapidly to enable the phase out of coal in a new Nuclear Energy for a Net Zero World brochure.
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2021-10-18
Fuel loading completed at Shin Hanul 1
The loading of all 241 fuel assemblies into the core of unit 1 at the Shin Hanul nuclear power plant in South Korea has been completed
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2021-10-15
France makes nuclear offer to Poland
France's EDF has made an offer to the Polish government to build as many as six EPR units.
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2021-10-14
IEA calls for commitments at COP26 to reach net-zero
The transition to a clean energy system is still progressing too slowly for the world to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
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2021-10-13
Nuclear to power remote gold mine
Nuclear power is the required energy source for development of the Russian gold deposit at Kyuchus.