News Iran starts $15bn nuclear power plant on Strait of Hormuz Iran has broken ground on a greenfield nuclear power plant at Sirik on the Strait of Hormuz, Nuclear Engineering International reports.
News Ontario to spend $1.5bn refurbishing Canada’s third-biggest nuclear plant Ontario will refurbish a nuclear power station near Toronto to extend its life by 30 years amid rapid growth in demand for electricity. Province-owned company Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will…
News China turns on world’s first fourth-generation reactor The world’s first commercial, fourth-generation reactor has entered service at the Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant in northeast China.
News Candu wins $540m deal to refurbish Romanian reactor Romanian nuclear operator Nuclearelectrica has hired Canadian engineer Candu Energy and the state-owned Canadian Commercial Corporation to extend the life of the Unit 1 reactor at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant.
News Fuel loaded into Vogtle 4 as epic reactor project nears end US utility Georgia Power started loading fuel into the reactor core of the new Unit 4 at the Vogtle nuclear power plant near Waynesboro, Georgia on 17 August.
News China’s all-important Hualong reactor passes final test The first two units of China’s Hualong One reactor design passed their final acceptance test, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced this week. The country’s future nuclear plans are based…
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.