Todd Smith, Ontario’s Energy Minister, is to announce a multi-billion dollar refurbishment of the four reactors at Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG’s) Pickering B power plant, east of Toronto.
The Hinkley Point C nuclear power project in the UK has been delayed by an estimated 2-4 years.
The UK Government has committed an additional £800 million to the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power project in Suffolk, England, in an attempt to attract outside investors to the project.
Capital Power Corporation, based in Edmonton, Alberta, and Ontario Power Generation are working together to assess the feasibility of developing SMRs to help power Alberta’s electricity grid.
The UK Government has announced it will invest £300 million into creating specialist fuel for the next generation of nuclear reactors.
Rafeal Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that his inspectors are being denied access to parts of Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaprizhzhia nuclear power plant and had yet to receive 2024 maintenance plans for the facility.
Shanghai has announced that it has commissioned the Shidaowan demonstration nuclear power plant project equipped with Fourth Generation technology in Shandong province, China.
Spain’s government has confirmed that it will close all of its remaining nuclear power plants by 2035.
Japan’s nuclear power regulator has lifted an operational ban it imposed on Tokyo Electric Power’s (Tepco’s) 8212 MW Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, clearing the path for a restart.
Six EU countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands), along with Switzerland, have signed a commitment to end carbon emissions in power generation by 2035.