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Published: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:35:21 GMT
The municipality of Heim in Trøndelag county, Norway, has announced the start of regulatory work for creating a zone for the construction of a nuclear power plant and the cancellation of previous plans for the zone.
Published: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:28:05 GMT
Tokyo Electric Power Company plans to begin loading fuel into unit 7 of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture following approval by Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority. It is not yet known when the reactor will be restarted.
Published: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:00:32 GMT
Brazil's Eletronuclear has highlighted the economic benefits of investing in completing the Angra 3 nuclear unit, and stressed that an official study has yet to be completed into the likely final tariff paid by customers.
Published: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:01:20 GMT
Energoatom and Westinghouse's CEOs, Ukraine's Minister of Energy and the US ambassador have gathered at an event to mark the start of the project to build unit 5 at the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant.
Published: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:25:48 GMT
All remaining highly enriched uranium from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency's Japan Materials Testing Reactor Critical Assembly has now been returned to the USA. Japan and the USA have been cooperating for many years to repatriate HEU from Japanese research reactors to the USA.
Published: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:33:54 GMT
International Atomic Energy Agency staff at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant report that they have been told unit 4 is being transferred to cold shutdown - making it the sixth and last unit to do so.
Published: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:25:46 GMT
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission should address potential impacts of climate change–related hazards during the licensing process for nuclear power plants, the Government Accountability Office has recommended.
Published: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:23:39 GMT
Russian nuclear regulator Rostechnadzor has issued a licence which will allow the production of mock-ups of fuel assemblies with depleted uranium for the BREST-OD-300 fast neutron reactor.
Published: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:09:04 GMT
The retrieval has been completed of more than 2100 tonnes of solid intermediate-level radioactive waste from five above-ground concrete bunkers at the Hunterston A Magnox nuclear power plant in Scotland. The project began 20 years ago.
Published: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:46:05 GMT
The new partnership brings together the US Department of Energy and Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to work to accelerate the demonstration and commercialisation of fusion energy. The announcement was made during a visit by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to the USA.