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The US Trade and Development Agency has awarded a $1.2m grant to Romania’s national nuclear energy company Societatea National Nuclearelectrica, to support the development of small modular reactor solutions in Romania. USTDA said its technical assistance ...read more

Georgia Power is likely to adjust the dates for the start of hot functional testing and fuel load for the Vogtle-3 nuclear power plant under construction in the US, but still expects to achieve the November 2021 and 2022 regulatory-approved in-service ...read more

British construction and engineering group Costain is collaborating with U-Battery Developments Ltd to develop an advanced modular reactor which is being funded by the UK Department of Business. The company said the work is in support of the government ...read more

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has established an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to consider whether a hearing is needed on Dominion Energy's licence renewal application for the North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia, the American Nuclear ...read more

The Leningrad 2-2 nuclear power plant in Sosnovy Bor, western Russia, has reached 100% of its design power level as testing continues ahead of commercial operation, state nuclear corporation Rosatom said. Rosatom said the VVER-1200 Generation III ...read more

Belgium’s nuclear regulator has approved the restart of Tihange-2 nuclear power plant following a maintenance outage after concluding no new hydrogen flakes have appeared and the existing flakes had not increased in size. The Federal Agency for Nuclear ...read more

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Kristine Svinicki announced she intends to leave the commission on January 20 after 13 years of service. Ms Svinicki has served as a commissioner under three administrations and is the longest serving member ...read more

Italy’s state-owned nuclear waste management company Sogin has published a list of 67 potential sites for a national radwaste storage facility. The list includes potential sites in the northwest, central Italy, the south, and the islands of Sicily ...read more

The Olkiluoto nuclear power station in southwest Finland produced 14.6 TWh of electricity in 2020, meeting about one-sixth of the country’ total electricity consumption but representing a slight fall from the 14.75 TWh produced in 2019. Operator ...read more

After 44 years of commercial operation, the Ringhals-1 nuclear power reactor near Varberg in southwestern Sweden has been shut down for good. The 881-MW boiling water reactor unit reactor began commercial operation on 1 January 1976 and according ...read more

Slovenia’s single-unit Krško nuclear power station is scheduled for restart and grid connection at 22:00 local time on 30 December 2020, after an automatic shutdown the day before was caused by an earthquake in neighbouring Croatia. Krško operator ...read more

Bulgaria’s Kozloduy-5 and -6 nuclear reactor units generated a record amount of electricity in 2020, the plant operator Kozloduy NPP said in a statement. From 1 January until 30 December 2020 the two VVER-1000 units produced 16.55 TWh of electricity ...read more

Slovenia’s single-unit Krško nuclear power station is in a safe sate after it was automatically shut down earlier on 29 December as a result of an earthquake in neighbouring Croatia, according to the national nuclear regulator. Earlier today, Krško ...read more

The UK and the European Union reached last week a draft nuclear cooperation agreement in the framework of the general UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) concluded after last-minute talks in Brussels, the UK government and European Commission ...read more

Atomstroyexport, the export branch of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has handed over the Tianwan-4 nuclear reactor unit to plant operator Jiangsu Nuclear Power Corporation (JNPC), a statement said. Tianwan-4 is a Russia-designed 1,045 ...read more

NucNet will be operating a limited news service over the Christmas and New Year holiday. The next daily newsletter will be on Monday 28 December and the next Weekly Nuclear News Review, usually published every Friday, will be on Friday 8 January ...read more

A $908bn relief and stimulus plan approved by US Congress includes $1.5bn for nuclear energy programmes, signalling the importance of nuclear as the country tries to move towards an increasingly decarbonised economy. The total appropriation for the ...read more

The Czech cabinet has approvd a shortlist of four potential sites for a deep geological repository and has rubber-stamped legislation that will set out the “rules of the game” and improve transparency throughout the selection and construction process ...read more

The US Department of Energy has announced $20m in awards for the third of three programmes under its new advanced reactor demonstration programme. Three teams will receive FY20 funding for projects designed to help domestic private industry demonstrate ...read more

Climate and environmental activists in Poland are calling on Germany to reconsider its 2011 decision to permanently shut down all operational nuclear power plants. Members of the FOTA4Climate initiative submitted to the Germany embassy in Warsaw ...read more

Canada’s nuclear regulator has renewed the nuclear fuel facility licence held by BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada Inc (BWXT) for plants in Toronto and Peterborough, Ontario. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission also decided to authorise the commercial ...read more

US-based Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a contract with Swedish utility Vattenfall to segment the nuclear reactor at its Agesta nuclear power plant near Stockholm. Under the terms of the contract, Westinghouse will plan, design and manufacture ...read more

Japan’s nuclear regulator said on Thursday it had filed an appeal to overturn a court ruling requiring the Ohi-3 and Ohi-4 nuclear power plants, also owned and operated by Kansai Electric, to be kept offline. The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA ...read more

A town assembly gave the green light on 18 December to resume operations at the Mihama-3 nuclear power plant in Fukui prefecture, western Japan. Kansai Electric is keen to resume operation of the 780-MW pressurised water reactor unit in January. ...read more

The US Department of Energy has chosen five nuclear technology companies to receive $30m each in initial funding for risk reduction projects under its advanced reactor demonstration programme (ARDP). The recipients are: Kairos Power’s Hermes Reduced ...read more