The USA and Japan have announced major Japanese investments in US power generation.
A projectile struck the grounds of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation issued a statement confirming that: “No financial, technical, or human damage occurred and no part of the plant was harmed.”
Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) will soon submit a plan to restart the decommissioned Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant in Hengchun, Pingtung County, Taiwan, with the objective of having it start to generate electricity by 2028.
The Manila Electric Company (Meralco) the signed an MOU with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and the Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) to support its Nuclear Energy Strategic Transition programme.
TerraPower, a US SMR company backed by SK Innovation and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), has received approval from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to build a commercial nuclear power plant.
Doosan Enerbility has won a €200 million contract to supply key turbine equipment for new reactors in the Czech Republic. It will supply two sets of steam turbines, generators, and turbine control systems for Units 5 and 6 of the Dukovany nuclear power plant through its subsidiary Doosan Skoda Power.
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has signed a partnership agreement with the city of Port Hope in Ontario Canada to develop “large-scale new nuclear generation” at the utility’s 1300 acre Wesleyville location on the shores of Lake Ontario.
Japan has restarted a nuclear reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world’s largest nuclear power plant by capacity, after a 15-year outage following the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
ABB has been selected by Bruce Power under a multi-year contract to modernise excitation systems at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Ontario, Canada.
Kim Sung-whan, South Korea’s Climate Minister, said that the country will construct two new nuclear reactors by 2038 at the latest.