Sep 10, 2024 · India's Department of Atomic Energy marked the start of inital fuel loading at Kakrapar 4 on social media (Image: DAE)DAE. Kakrapar 4 - also referred to as KAPP-4 - is one of two Indian-designed 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs) being built at …

What do you think are the main priorities for the year ahead? One of the things that has been keeping me a little bit awake at night is to make sure that we, the global nuclear industry, make the most of the perfect alignment of the stars that we are seeing right now.We haven't seen this ever perhaps, or not in many decades. I keep saying this, but the time is truly now.

Key decisions on which small modular reactor technologies to select and on a Final Investment Decision on Sizewell C will be taken in spring 2025, according to timelines set out in the government's Budget documents. ;

Oct 9, 2024 · Construction of the three start-up wellfields at Honeymoon (Image: Boss Energy) The Perth-based company said it remains fully-funded through to production, with cash on hand of AUD103 million (USD69 million) and a strategic uranium stockpile valued at AUD96 million based on current spot prices.

Sep 9, 2024 · How a Rolls-Royce SMR might look (Image: Rolls-Royce SMR) Rolls-Royce SMR said that Sumitomo Corporation, the global business and investment company headquartered in Japan, would "use the report to support site suitability work and develop its understanding around the potential for utilising" the firm's SMRs "alongside clean hydrogen production facilities in …

Oct 25, 2024 · The 1000 MW Candu Monark, a Generation III+ reactor with the highest output of any Candu technology, is currently in the definition phase, the company said at the World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris, and will feature simplified construction and a 70-year operating life. ;

The partially constructed units 3 and 4 at Cernavoda (Image: Nuclearelectrica) Romania's nuclear power plant operator Nuclearelectrica said that the estimated value of the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract, which was signed at the COP29 climate conference, was about EUR3.2 billion (USD3.4 billion).

NPCIL Chairman and Managing Director Bhuwan Chandra Pathak was present as the reactor reached first criticality (Image: NPCIL/Facebook) The plant, also known as Kakrapar Atomic Power Project unit 4 (KAPP 4 ), is an Indian-designed and built 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactor and is the second in a series of sixteen units, the first of which - Kakrapar unit 3 - was declared in commercial ...

Nov 13, 2024 · World Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León speaking at the event (Image: World Nuclear Association) During COP28 - held in Dubai, UAE, in December last year - 25 countries backed a Ministerial Declaration calling for the tripling of global nuclear energy capacity by 2050.

Sep 11, 2024 · The USA's first-of-its-kind 1 MW demonstration scale, nuclear-powered clean hydrogen production facility has begun operating at Constellation's Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant in Oswego, New York. The company said the new facility will help demonstrate the potential for hydrogen to power a clean economy.