World Nuclear News

Belgian reactor operator Electrabel is preparing to restart units at Tihange and Doel after national nuclear regulators confirmed that defects discovered in the reactor's pressure vessels are of no safety significance. ...read more

Spanish utility Nuclenor has requested a partial revocation of a ministerial order which would enable it to request an operating licence extension for the shut Garoña nuclear power plant. ...read more

Westinghouse and China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) are to work together to develop a small modular reactor (SMR) design licensable in both the USA and China. ...read more

Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy has been awarded a contract to develop the design of Horizon Nuclear Power's proposed new nuclear power plant at Wylfa in the UK. ...read more

Plans for the Cigéo facility to dispose of radioactive waste at Bure in France have reached the stage of final public consultation. ...read more

Europe faces a "lost decade" in low carbon development, the continent's electricity industry association Eurelectric has warned, due to signals that detract from the ultimate goals of energy policy. ...read more

China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPC) has changed its name to China General Nuclear Power Group to reflect the group's ambitions to grow outside of Guangdong and China itself. ...read more

Westinghouse and China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corp have formed a joint venture to develop the global AP1000 supply chain. ...read more

A four-year process is planned to rebuild the cover over Fukushima Daiichi 1, equipping it to remove used reactor fuel still stored there. ...read more

Uranium production has begun at North Butte, a satellite facility to Cameco's Smith Ranch-Highland in situ leach uranium project in Wyoming, in a step described as a significant milestone for the company's US operations. ...read more

Residents will be able to repair tsunami damage in the town of Futaba after the Japanese government decided to prepare for the removal of parts of the town from the Fukushima evacuation zone. ...read more

EnBW Kernkraft has formally applied to the state of Baden-Wurttemberg for permission to decommission and demolish two nuclear units forced to close by German politicians in response to the Fukushima nuclear accident. ...read more

Most of the highly active liquid waste produced from the reprocessing of Material Test Reactor fuel at the UK's Dounreay site has now been cemented into drums ready for disposal. ...read more

Steam generators have been installed at new nuclear power reactors in Ningde and Fangjiashan in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces respectively. ...read more

Argentine nuclear technology firm Invap will construct two research reactors, one in Brazil and one in Argentina, under a contract signed with the two countries. ...read more

The first digital instrumentation and control (I&C) system developed jointly by Mitsubishi Electrical Corporation of Japan and China Techenergy Corporation has entered commercial operation. ...read more

Vietnam is to set up a new National Council for Atomic Energy Development, tasked with identifying strategies and priorities for the development and application of nuclear energy in the country. ...read more

Nine new backup generators will be delivered to the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in what owners TVO are describing as the largest ever individual modification of the plant. These are to be supplied and installed by Wärtsilä over the period 2016 to 2020. ...read more

Canada's L3-MAPPS will upgrade the full scope simulator of China's Ling Ao Phase II nuclear power plant with a severe accident simulation model. ...read more

A panel of two judges at India's Supreme Court has concluded that the Kudankulam nuclear power plant is vital for the country's economic growth and dismissed widespread public apprehension at the development as having 'no basis'. ...read more

Electricity generation at Dominion's Kewaunee nuclear power plant in Wisconsin ended today after almost 40 years of operation. ...read more

Support for the ailing European carbon market has continued with a joint letter from nine EU member states urging another attempt to put through 'backloading' measures as well as structural reform by the middle of this year. ...read more

Turkey stands to be the first country to use the Atmea1 reactor design by Areva and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. An accord signed today could see four of the units deployed at Sinop in the early 2020s. ...read more

London watchmaker Hoptroff has produced the world's first watch true atomic-clock accuracy. ...read more

Duke Energy has suspended plans to construct two new reactors at its existing Shearon Harris plant in North Carolina due to slower growth in electricity demand than previously expected. ...read more