The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $14 million to help build a hydrogen energy production facility at Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island nuclear power plant in Minnesota, USA.
A consortium led by Rolls-Royce is hoping to secure £217 million of funding from the UK Government to enable it to build 16 small modular reactors (SMRs).
Rosatom has announced that unit 1 of the Ostrovets nuclear power plant, the first to be built in Belarus, has been connected to the grid and is supplying electricity.
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has announced that Synthos Green Energy (SGE), part of the Synthos Group, has started discussions with Poland’s National Atomic Energy Agency (Państwowa Agencja Atomistyki – PAA) about a potential BWRX-300 small modular reactor project.
Kenya’s plan for a nuclear power plant has been delayed beyond the initial estimate of 2030.
Achieving net zero calls for four times as much clean power as now for the UK to stop burning polluting fossil fuels, and the Climate Change Committee says nearly 40 per cent of that needs to come from firm sources. Some argue nuclear is the best way to get there.
By Tom Greatrex , Chief Executive of the Nuclear Industry Association
Reuters has reported that EDF Energy will shut Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in southwest England earlier than planned.
NuScale Power has announced that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed the last phase of the Design Certification Application (DCA) for the company’s SMR with the issuance of the Final Safety Evaluation Report (FSER).
EDF has announced it will begin decommissioning its Hunterston B nuclear power plant in Scotland by January 2022.
Rosatom has said that it will make remix (regenerated mixture) uranium-plutonium fuel for VVER-1000 reactors.