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A robust supply chain is needed to enable new reactors to be built on time, on budget and at the scale needed to meet decarbonisation goals - and major players in the nuclear engineering, procurement and construction sector shared some of the experiences and lessons learned from projects both nuclear and non-nuclear at World Nuclear Symposium 2024 ...read more

There is an increasing willingness to consider investing in new nuclear projects - but issues remain around the lengthy investment timelines and perceived regulatory risks, a panel at World Nuclear Symposium heard. ...read more

Italian multinational oilfield services company Saipem has signed a cooperation agreement with UK-headquartered Newcleo to study offshore applications of Newcleo's innovative reactor technology. ...read more

Actions being taken by various countries to meet the target of tripling global nuclear power generating capacity by 2050 were discussed by panellists during a session at World Nuclear Symposium 2024 . Cooperation will be key to meeting the target, they agreed. ...read more

Orano USA has selected Oak Ridge as its preferred site for a new centrifuge uranium enrichment facility. ...read more

Westinghouse says that it believes the Hive System - a generative artificial intelligence system built on more than 100 years of its in-house expertise - "will drive improved cost and schedule through the entire reactor lifecycle from design, licensing, manufacturing, construction and operations". ...read more

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has inspected the cooling tower affected by fire last month at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and says it is "not usable in the future, so it will probably be demolished". ...read more

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has amended its regulations for licensing non-power production or utilisation facilities to reflect the limited risk such facilities pose to public safety. At the same time, it is also revising the definition of a testing facility to a more risk-informed standard than the current power-based definition. ...read more

Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation has announced that the fourth unit of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant has entered into commercial operation, with the company's CEO Mohamed Al Hammadi stressing the global nuclear industry's growth opportunity as demand soars for carbon-free energy, at World Nuclear Symposium . ...read more

Lead author of World Nuclear Performance Report , Jonathan Cobb, outlines the key findings on the industry's performance in 2023, including the trend that older plants are operating better than ever. ...read more

The reactor pressure vessel has been moved into place at unit 8 of the Tianwan plant in China's Jiangsu province. ...read more

Swedish lead-cooled small modular reactor technology developer Blykalla said it is participating in a new project focused on integrating SMRs with thermochemical processes to produce renewable materials, like bio-coal and bio-oil, which can then be used to reduce carbon emissions and enhance energy efficiency in Sweden's steel and chemical industries ...read more

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published its final environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact for Kairos Power's construction permit application for the dual unit Hermes 2 test reactor project. ...read more

Thorizon of the Netherlands has announced that the Dutch and French nuclear regulators are to collaborate on a preparatory review of its Thorizon One molten salt reactor to streamline the pre-license applications expected next year. ...read more

The concrete foundation of the turbine building for Akkuyu unit 3 in Turkey includes a steel reinforcement frame which measures 58.2 metres by 20.4 metres by 5.3 metres. ...read more

The lower part of the reactor internals has been installed at the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project at the Changjiang site on China's island province of Hainan, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced. ...read more

Tohoku Electric Power Company announced it has started loading fuel assemblies into the reactor of unit 2 at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in Japan's northeastern Miyagi Prefecture. The reactor has been offline since November 2010 and will become the 13th Japanese reactor to be restarted. ...read more

The UK's Tokamak Energy has set up TE Magnetics as it seeks to commercialise its high temperature superconducting magnet technology for both fusion and non-fusion applications. ...read more

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed the presidential decree setting the date for a national referendum on the construction of a nuclear power plant. The referendum will take place on 6 October. ...read more

Workers at the Flamanville EPR have begun the process required for achieving the first nuclear reaction in the reactor following approval from the French nuclear regulator. The reactor is expected to be connected to the grid in the coming months. ...read more

The USA's nuclear workforce continued to grow in 2023 - but with over 60% of nuclear employees aged between 30 and 60, employers across the industry are reporting at least some difficulty in hiring workers, according to a newly released annual report from the Department of Energy. ...read more

The first batch of VVER-440 fuel assemblies supplied by Westinghouse has been loaded into unit 2 of Finland's Loviisa nuclear power plant. ...read more

Brazil's Eletronuclear says the first phase of the second campaign to move used fuel from Angra 2 to its on-site used fuel dry storage facility has been successfully completed, with 480 used fuel elements transferred. ...read more

The Sizewell C nuclear power plant project is set to benefit from up to GBP5.5 billion (USD7.2 billion) in subsidies from a new development expenditure subsidy scheme announced by the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. ...read more

Mobile phone giant Vodafone and Czech nuclear operator ČEZ have introduced what they say is Europe's first private 5G mobile phone network at a nuclear power plant. ...read more