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Algerian authorities have set a new target date to build the country's first nuclear plant. On Sunday, Minister of Energy and Mining Youcef Yousfi said he expects the plant will be operational in 2025, the state-run APS news service reported. That would be five years later than an earlier target...

China's nuclear industry is wasting no time in wooing South Africa as it considers building several new reactors to meet its expanding energy needs. The country's government will make a decision on whether to move forward with a 9,600 megawatt project this year, Public Enterprise Minister Malusi...

Construction at Georgia's Plant Vogtle, where Southern Co. is leading a project to add two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors, continued to make visible progress in April. That work will continue unabated thanks to an appeals court decision Tuesday rejecting a suit by nine environmental groups opposed...

French nuclear firm EDF and Russia's Rosatom are in discussions to work more closely, a French publication has reported, potentially including co-ownership of Turkey's first commercial nuclear plant. Les Echos recently quoted Rosatom Deputy General Director Nikolai Spassky as saying the French...

Since its airing at the Sundance Film Festival, a new documentary by Robert Stone has raised a contentious question among environmentalists: If global warming poses the greatest environmental threat of our time, shouldn't we make use of existing nuclear technologies that can meet growing global energy...

India's largest nuclear power project has cleared yet another hurdle toward full operation with a Supreme Court decision issued Monday. Justices dismissed a petition to prevent operation of the Kudankulam nuclear plant near the southern tip of the country. The court said it had to balance the economic...

On Friday, the prime ministers of Japan and Turkey announced a contract to build Turkey's second nuclear plant at Sinop. Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Japan's Shinzo Abe signed a $22 billion contract for Areva and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build four, generation III Atmea pressurized...

Duke Energy will no longer pursue licensing for two new reactors at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant near Raleigh, N.C., the company announced Thursday. “The Harris site is well-suited for new nuclear generation and has not been eliminated from our long-term consideration as a site to expand our...

The staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined that foreign ownership could keep Nuclear Innovation North America from pursuing a license for new reactors at the South Texas Project. "On reviewing your application and all other relevant material, including the changes to Part 1 included...

Federal officials will hold a conference with South Carolina Electric & Gas next week to address questions surrounding rebar in the foundations of new reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant. Following an inspection in February, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asserted that the spacing and anchor...

Utility CEZ issued an unexpected message Tuesday to the companies vying to build two new reactors in the Czech Republic: Try harder. Westinghouse and a consortium led by Rosatom entered discussions with CEZ earlier this month regarding their bids to provide new units at the Temelin nuclear plant. On...

The Department of Energy and Babcock & Wilcox mPower have hammered out the financial details of DOE's first round of funding to accelerate the development of small modular reactors. DOE selected mPower in November as part of a cost-matching program aimed at licensing SMRs by 2022. In a release...

As the British government and EDF push back another target date for completing negotiations over new reactor construction at Hinkley Point, a prominent former politician has argued that the outcome will have far-reaching consequences for both nuclear power and energy policy in the UK. In an editorial...

The Tennessee Valley Authority's project to complete the second reactor at the Watts Bar nuclear plant remains on track to be finished by December of 2015 at a cost of $4 billion to $4.5 billion. The federally owned utility provided an update on the progress at Watts Bar 2 on Thursday. The report...

Turkey's energy minister denied a recent report in Japanese media that the country had selected Areva and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build a 5,000 megawatt nuclear plant at Sinop. An unnamed Chinese company remains in contention, Taner Yildiz said in a television interview, although Korea Electric...

Crews have lowered the top section of the containment vessel for one of the world's first Generation III AP1000 reactors at China's Haiyang nuclear plant. The 659-ton containment vessel top head was placed Friday morning at the China Power Investment Corp. plant in Shandong Province, according...

Progress Energy's application to build two new reactors near Gainesville, Fla., will continue to move forward after a regulatory body dismissed an appeal by environmental groups. The Nuclear Information and Resource Service and the Ecology Party of Florida had challenged the final environmental impact...

In the days following completion of the concrete basemat for unit 3 at Plant Vogtle, Southern Co. released more photos documenting the new reactors taking shape at the Georgia nuclear facility. Taken over the course of this month, they show the enormous footprint of the unit 3 cooling tower, more...

Westinghouse has emerged as the early favorite to build two new reactors in the Czech Republic, although Rosatom remains in the running as Czech utility CEZ continues to study their bids. On Monday, Westinghouse announced that a preliminary ranking placed its proposal to build two AP1000 reactors at...

The UK's energy secretary has granted planning permission for two new reactors at the Hinkley Point nuclear plant. While critical power price negotiations are ongoing, the approval represents the last go-ahead from the government required for EDF to build the units. With support from the governing...

On the heels of a similar milestone at V.C. Summer, Plant Vogtle recently completed the concrete basemat for the first of its new AP1000 reactors. The 7,000-cubic-yard concrete pour at unit 3 took 41 hours and was completed late last week, according to a Southern Co. release. "This historic...

At about 10 a.m., Monday, crews completed the basemat for the first new unit at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant – a milestone for the reactor that will be among the first to come on line in the U.S. since Watts Bar 1 opened in 1996. The 6-foot-thick basemat serves as the foundation for the reactor's...

Utility regulators have clarified that Utah's energy plans must consider the possibility of new nuclear power – a positive development for a company planning to build the first commercial reactor in the state. Blue Castle Holdings on Thursday published a letter from the chairman of Utah's...

Despite a lengthened schedule , significant progress is evident at the construction site of two new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at Southern Co.'s Vogtle nuclear plant. The following photos, taken by Southern in January and February, show the project's recently started cooling tower, containment...

Southern Co. has asked power regulators in Georgia for permission to increase the budget for its share of two new reactors under construction at Plant Vogtle. In a progress report filed with the Georgia Public Service Commission Thursday, the company asked for approval of a $381 million capital cost...