Nuclear
2023, December, 15, 06:35:00
U.S. ELECTRICAL RESTRICTIONS
The United States is entering a period of severely constrained electric supply. Demand is rising — including anticipated electric load from artificial intelligence, the need to shutter all coal facilities, and the limits to transmission from the renewable resources (wind and sun) 0f the West — and it will overwhelm the system unless it is substantially augmented with new generation.
2023, December, 7, 07:00:00
CLEAN NUCLEAR POWER
The goal of global net zero carbon emissions can only be reached by 2050 with swift, sustained and significant investment in nuclear energy. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change see nuclear as important part of the solution to climate change and energy insecurity.
2023, November, 30, 06:40:00
NUCLEAR FUEL FOR HUNGARY
The Hungarian government plans to extend the service of the Paks NPP. Four of its reactors, build by Soviet specialists some 40 years ago, are to go out of operation between 2032 and 2037, but their life span may be extended by 20 years, to 2052-2057. At the same time, the plant’s units Five and Six are now being built in accordance with Rosatom’s designs.
2023, November, 27, 06:45:00
EUROPEAN NUCLEAR POWER
Nuclear had only partially been included in the commission's proposal for NZIA. Among the 10 technologies it proposed was "advanced technologies to produce energy from nuclear processes with minimal waste from the fuel cycle, small modular reactors, and related best-in-class fuels".
2023, November, 27, 06:35:00
S.KOREA, BRITAIN NUCLEAR COOPERATION
Among the areas for cooperation, the partnership will see the UK and Korea commit to strengthening cooperation on civil nuclear, including on large-scale, small-scale and advanced reactors, decommissioning and waste management, and supply chains.
2023, November, 23, 06:20:00
URANIUM PRICES MAXIMUM
Following the invasion of Ukraine, things couldn’t be more different, with countries looking to nuclear power as a source of low-carbon power that can diversify their mix from intermittent renewable energy and imported fossil fuels.
2023, November, 22, 06:40:00
KAZAKHSTAN'S URANIUM FOR CHINA
Kazakhstan’s National Atomic Company Kazatomprom has signed a contract for the supply of natural uranium concentrate with China National Uranium Corporation Limited (CNUC - a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation).
2023, November, 22, 06:35:00
HUNGARY'S NUCLEAR SCHEDULE
The Paks II project was launched in 2014 by an inter-governmental agreement between Hungary and Russia for two VVER-1200 reactors (units 5&6) to be supplied by Rosatom.
2023, November, 22, 06:30:00
U.S., PHILIPPINES NUCLEAR
The agreement was signed by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Philippine Department of Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla on the sidelines of the 30th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Summit in San Francisco. The signing was witnessed by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos.
2023, November, 22, 06:25:00
NUCLEAR POWER FOR SWEDEN
The agreement also said necessary regulations should be developed to create the conditions for the construction and operation of small modular reactors (SMRs) in Sweden. In addition, the permitting process for nuclear power plants must be shortened.
2023, November, 17, 06:45:00
RUSSIA, KAZAKHSTAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION
The recent visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Kazakhstan resulted in a raft of agreements covering a wide range of areas.
2023, November, 17, 06:40:00
RUSSIAN ARCTIC NUCLEAR DECISION
The energy system for the remote region is a standalone one run by Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company, part of the Norilsk Nickel group. The city of Norilsk is within the Arctic circle in Russia's north, and has a population of more than 170,000 people.
2023, November, 17, 06:35:00
EUROPEAN NUCLEAR SMR
The Commission set up a European SMR pre-Partnership in June with the overall objective of identifying enabling conditions and constraints, including financial ones, towards safe design, construction and operation of SMRs in Europe in the next decade and beyond in compliance with the EU legislative framework in general and to the Euratom legislative framework in particular.
2023, November, 17, 06:25:00
U.S., BRITAIN FUSION PARTNERSHIP
The new partnership builds on a long history of collaborative efforts in fusion energy research and development, supported predominantly in the US through the DOE Office of Science’s Fusion Energy Sciences programme and in the UK through the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).
2023, November, 17, 06:20:00
THE NEW NUCLEAR DECISIONS FOR CLIMATE
Many oil and gas, drilling, and extraction operations take place in remote locations, and in many cases, it is not possible for these processes to be fuelled by electricity from the grid. It is here that microreactors (MRs) or small modular reactors (SMRs) could provide a low carbon alternative.