Flamanville Nuclear Plant with Reactor 3 (EPR) in foreground (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) The third French Multiannual Energy Plan (PPE – Programmation Pluriannuelle de l’Énergie) covering the period ...
Aerial view of the ITER construction site (Image credit: ITER) The 37 th meeting of the ITER Council has reported significant progress. ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi reported that ITER is ...
Argentina’s nuclear utility, Nucleoeléctrica Argentina SA (NA-SA) has said testing is underway at the Spent Fuel Dry Storage Project (ASECG II – Almacenamiento en Seco de Elementos Combustibles ...
Cyclife Germany GmbH has successfully finalised the acquisition of Kraftanlagen Heidelberg GmbH and its associated specialised units. Cyclife is an international nuclear decommissioning subsidiary ...
Japan’s Chubu Electric Power Co has admitted to intentionally falsifying 14 construction and expense reports. The fraudulent claims concern the ongoing decommissioning of units 1&2 reactors at its ...
UK-based nuclear technology company Newcleo on 31 August announced its incorporation with the closing of a $118 million initial capital raising and the acquisition of Hydromine Nuclear Energy. Newcleo ...
Artistic rendering of the Stellaris fusion power plant (Credit: Proxima Fusion) Munich-based start-up Proxima Fusion has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Free State of Bavaria, RWE, ...
In an era where nuclear energy is being called upon to meet global decarbonisation and reliability goals, the workforce behind it is being stretched thin. Between regulatory pressure, aging ...
Unit 1 of Russia’s Kursk-II NPP, with a Kursk NPP-2 with an innovative Generation 3+ 1,252 MWe VVER-TOI reactor begins commercial operation after receiving final approval from the Federal Service for ...
Tokio Marine GX and specialist MGA Northcourt (part of the Optio Group) have launched NC Fusion, the Lloyd’s market’s first dedicated insurance facility for nuclear fusion technology. Traditional ...
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are newer generation reactors designed to generate electric power typically from 20 MWe up to 300 MWe, whose components and systems can be shop fabricated and then ...
The world’s biggest superconducting magnet for a nuclear fusion reactor has passed final tests as part of China’s CRAFT (Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology) project, overcoming one ...