News SNC-Lavalin wins $65m nuclear contract in Romania SNC-Lavalin’s Candu Energy has won a two-year project worth C$65m to prepare for the life-extending refurbishment of a nuclear reactor in Romania.
News South Korea offers to build four reactors for Turkey The Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) said yesterday that it had contacted the government of Turkey to propose the construction of four reactors with a total power output of 5.6GW,…
News SNC-Lavalin, Aecon join team building North America’s first small modular reactor Canadian power company Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has retained Candu Energy, part of the SNC-Lavalin Group, and Canadian contractor Aecon to design and build a small modular reactor (SMR) at…
News Jacobs, Westinghouse to decommission Lithuania’s Soviet-era nuclear plant A consortium of Jacobs, Westinghouse and the Lithuanian Energy Institute has landed a decommissioning contract for Lithuania’s Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP). The Soviet-designed plant could be the first graphite-moderated…
News Netherlands approves two new reactors as old Borssele plant eyes retirement The Netherlands’ Council of Ministers has approved plans for two new reactors, with the country’s only existing plant at Borssele in Zeeland as the preferred location, VRT News reports. The…
News Iran starts building own-brand nuclear plant Iran broke ground on a nuclear power plant in the country’s southwestern Khuzestan region on Saturday, state news agency PressTV reports. The Karun plant will be located on a 50ha…
News Three nuclear engineers in race to build Czech nuclear plant Bids from US-Canadian engineer Westinghouse, France’s EDF and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) have been shortlisted for a nuclear plant in Dukovany, in the southeast of the Czech Republic.…
Uncategorized Russian shelling leads to ‘12 hits’ at Ukraine’s biggest nuclear plant operator says Russian shelling over Saturday and Sunday resulted in 12 direct hits on structures at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Ukraine’s nuclear power company Energoatom said yesterday. Experts from the…
News Russia pours concrete for second reactor at Egypt’s El-Dabaa nuclear plant Russian nuclear engineer Rosatom poured the first concrete on Saturday (19 November) for the second reactor at Egypt’s El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, the country’s first. Egypt’s energy minister Mohamed Shaker…
News Kenya picks possible sites for first nuclear power station After lengthy prefeasibility studies, the Kenya’s nuclear power authority has picked two possible sites for the country’s first commercial reactors, newspaper The Star reports.
News South Korea’s new president wants nuclear U-turn South Korea appears set to reverse its moratorium on new nuclear power stations imposed after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster of 2011.
