The US has issued a request for proposals to buy up to $2.7bn (€2.5bn) of enriched uranium from domestic sources in an effort to boost supplies of the nuclear reactor fuel and move the country away from buying it from Russia, the Department of Energy (DOE) said on Thursday....
Construction has begun on the first phase of a new nuclear research reactor in Belgium that could be fully operation by 2038 for nuclear research and the production of crucial medical radioisotope....
Slovenia’s state-owned power company GEN Energija is to make public research showing that the location of the existing Krško nuclear power station and a planned new reactor is safe from the point of view of seismic activity....
Finland has successfully completed its first nuclear decommissioning project with the dismantling of the FiR1 research reactor, which operated for over 50 years at the VTT Technical Research Centre premises in Otaniemi, Espoo, near the capital Helsinki....
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has approved extensions to the operational lifetimes for Units 3 and 4 at Kansai Electric Power’s Ohi nuclear station based on a law that was enacted in May last year....
Lawmakers in California have approved a $400m (€374m) loan to keep the two-unit Diablo Canyon nuclear power station operating until 2030 after initially expressing concerns over the cost to the taxpayer....
Petyo Ivanov tells industry conference ‘we live in some tough times related to costs’....
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has almost finished designing its next-generation large-scale nuclear reactor, paving the way for possible construction once a site is chosen, company president Seiji Izumisawa told Bloomberg...
AtkinsRéalis aiming to deploy first reactor around 2034-2035....
Southeast Asian country abandoned earlier Moscow-backed plans in 2016....
Company says country is only one in Europe currently producing material....
Generation III+ unit features passive containment cooling system....
Country takes step closer to setting up a regulatory authority....
Reactor construction needs to offer ‘good technology and a good business case’....
Company examining large-scale unit deployment in parallel....
Inaugural dig underway at retiring coal site for facility where sodium coolant system will be tested....
Many want Doel-4 and Tihange-3 to operate for 20 more years....
Technology could be used in advanced power reactors....
First unit could be operational in 2030....
Work will include cost and schedule estimates....
Move comes as Sofia aims to end nuclear power dependence on Russia....
New group says key tasks include identifying most promising and cost-effective technologies....
State agency Rosatom says construction of six-unit small modular reactor scheduled to begin this summer....
Two VVER-1200 pressurised water reactor units under construction at site....
Nuclear plant to be built near retiring coal site in Wyoming....
