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Strikes over French nuclear reform plan reduce output

• 2020-12-10 07:35:10.726446
• David Flin

Strikes by workers protesting against a French nuclear reform plan reduced nuclear power generation by more than 1 GW on Wednesday evening (9 December).

Hinkley Point B nuclear power station to close down by 2022

• 2020-11-23 07:13:20.524628
• David Flin

EDF has announced that it plans to start decommissioning of Hinkley Point B nuclear power station in Somerset, England by July 2022.

US DOE awards $14 million for hydrogen production at Prairie Island nuclear plant

• 2020-11-12 08:26:09.804327
• David Flin

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.

Rolls-Royce seeking funding for 16 SMRs

• 2020-11-11 07:35:24.754569
• David Flin

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).

First nuclear unit connected to grid in Belarus

• 2020-11-04 07:12:40.788577
• David Flin

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 in discussions over possible SMR for Poland

• 2020-10-30 08:20:46.921937
• David Flin

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 nuclear energy plan delayed past 2030

• 2020-10-26 06:39:02.461800
• David Flin

Kenya’s plan for a nuclear power plant has been delayed beyond the initial estimate of 2030.

Net Zero: Time to turn ambition into action

• 2020-09-18 11:06:28
• Junior Isles

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

EDF Energy plans early closure of Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant

• 2020-09-14 08:01:45.741677
• David Flin

Reuters has reported that EDF Energy will shut Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in southwest England earlier than planned.

NuScale Power’s SMR receives design approval

• 2020-08-31 07:30:59.436700
• David Flin

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).