Posted by NucNet on 17 November 2014 in NucNet
Comment & People Former US energy secretary and Nobel prizewinning physicist Steven Chu believes using a variety of reactor designs – as the UK looks poised to do – is not the best way to keep costs down. Mr Chu told The Guardian newspaper that although the British ...
Plans & Construction China is expected to give the go-ahead by the end of the year for construction to begin on six new nuclear reactors at three sites, the First Financial Daily reported. The three sites are Hongyanhe, Shidaowan and Fuqing. The only one of the three that ...
Posted by NucNet on 14 November 2014 in NucNet
Decommissioning The nuclear energy industry needs to be ready to manage “an unprecedented rate” of decommissioning with almost 200 of the 434 reactors that were operating commercially at the end of 2013 to be retired by 2040, a report by the International Energy Agency said. World Energy Outlook ...
Plans & Construction Russia and Iran signed an agreement for the construction of up to eight new nuclear reactor units in Iran, the country’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said. IRNA said the head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, signed the agreement in ...
Plans & Construction Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have confirmed that the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the Baltic nuclear power station under construction in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad complies with international standards, Russian state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom said. Rosatom said the IAEA’s ...
Posted by NucNet on 13 November 2014 in NucNet
Uranium & Fuel A Russian company has developed and manufactured a remotely operated welding system that will be used in Russia for the production of mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies for nuclear power reactors. Moscow-based civil engineering company Nikimt-Atomstroy said the system is used to feed and ...
Security & Safety The Doel-3 and Tihange-2 reactor units in Belgium could restart “at the end of winter”, GDF Suez, owner of Electrabel which owns and operates the units, said today. A spokesperson for Belgium’s Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (Fanc) said “the statement by GDF Suez is ...
Posted by World Nuclear News on 13 November 2014 in WNN
Unit 1 of the Fuqing nuclear power plant in China’s Fujian province has reached full capacity for the first time. Meanwhile, first concrete could soon be poured at the plant’s fifth unit, the first-of-a-kind Hualong One reactor. Fuqing 1 reached 100% power at 5.00pm on 7 November, plant ...
Plans & Construction China’s Generation IV demonstration high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), being built near the city of Rongcheng in Shandong province, will be completed in 2017, the ministry of science and technology said. The ministry also said the first layer of concrete for the 200-megawatt reactor project has ...
Posted by NucNet on 12 November 2014 in NucNet
Plans & Construction The second of four steam generators has been shipped from its construction site in Russia to the Tianwan-3 nuclear reactor unit under construction in in Jiangsu province, China, the engineering division of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said. There are two Russian VVER-1000 nuclear units ...
Uranium & Fuel. A working group of Russian and Polish experts has carried out post-irradiation examinations on two fuel assemblies with low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel used in Poland’s Maria research reactor. The group said the assemblies have remained intact and do not have any external deformations. The delivery ...
Plant Operation The operating licence of the single-unit Trillo nuclear power station in central Spain has been renewed for a further 10 years following government approval. The approval followed the submission last month of a report by the Spanish nuclear regulator to the Ministry of Industry approving the ...
Uranium & Fuel The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed the operating licence for the Cameco-operated Crow Butte uranium mine in Nebraska for a further 10 years. The licence now has an expiration date of 5 November 2024. An environmental assessment found there would be “no significant environmental ...
Plans & Construction Installation has been completed of the irrigation system for the cooling tower at Unit 1 of the Novovoronezh 2 nuclear power station under construction in Voronezh Oblast, central Russia. The irrigation system allows efficient cooling of water coming from the turbine condensers. Novovoronezh 2-1 is ...
Posted by World Nuclear News on 12 November 2014 in WNN
The USA and China have jointly announced separate targets for greenhouse gas emissions over the next 10-15 years. They hope other countries will follow their lead so that a global climate agreement can be reached next year. US president Barack Obama and Chinese president Xi Jinping announced their ...
Posted by NucNet on 11 November 2014 in NucNet
Plans & Construction Russia and Iran have today signed an agreement for the construction of up to eight new nuclear reactor units in Iran, the country’s official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said. IRNA said the head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi, ...
