Industry News

2020-08-03

UAE's first power reactor achieves criticality

Nawah Energy Company has started up unit 1 of the Barakah nuclear power plant, located in the Al Dhafrah region of Abu Dhabi.
2020-07-31

Tianwan 5 achieves criticality

Unit 5 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China's Jiangsu province has attained a sustained chain reaction for the first time.
2020-07-30

Remediation work begins at Kyrgyz legacy uranium site

Work has started in Kyrgyzstan to overcome the legacy of uranium mining in Central Asia with a ground-breaking ceremony in Shekaftar, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced on July 28.
2020-07-29

UK invites innovation in radwaste management

The UK has launched a GBP3.9 million (USD5.0 million) competition to find innovative ways to sort and segregate radioactive waste at some of its oldest nuclear sites.
2020-07-28

New NRG tests could lead to novel nuclear fuels

New irradiation experiments on the behaviour of nuclear fuel have recently started in the High Flux Reactor at Petten, in the Netherlands.
2020-07-23

Report shows advantages of nuclear employment

The nuclear energy industry provides more numerous, better-paid and more highly-trained jobs than does the wind power sector, according to a technical position paper published today by World Nuclear Association.
2020-07-23

Kakrapar 3 achieves first criticality

Unit 3 of the Kakrapar nuclear power plant in the Surat district of the Indian state of Gujarat has attained a sustained chain reaction for the first time.
2020-07-21

IAEA, GIF call for faster deployment of next generation reactors

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) have called for greater efforts to support the early deployment of innovative nuclear reactor systems to address climate change.
2020-07-21

Mexico's Laguna Verde plant relicensed for 30 years

Mexico's Ministry of Energy (SENER) has authorised the renewal of the operating licence for unit 1 of the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant for an additional 30 years to 2050, by which time the unit will have been in commercial operation for 60 years.
2020-07-20

Pandemic drives plant operators to employ remote checks

Nuclear power plant operators are carrying out remote quality and safety related assessments of systems, structures and components (SSCs) to overcome physical distancing and mobility restrictions during the global COVID-19 pandemic, participants in a recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) webinar said.

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