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WEBSep 5, 2024 · Homepage - World Nuclear News. The generator stator has been hoisted into place at the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project at the Changjiang site on China's island province of Hainan, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced. New Nuclear · Monday, 16 September 2024.
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WEBThe nuclear supply chain will need to expand and innovate in order to facilitate the tripling of nuclear capacity by 2050, panellists agreed during a session at World Nuclear Symposium 2024. However, they said an environment needs to be created where companies are confident about investing in the sector. New Nuclear · Tuesday, 10 September 2024.
Financing issues for nuclear under the spotlight
WEBSep 9, 2022 · issues for nuclear under the spotlight. 09 September 2022. The financing of nuclear projects under current mechanisms faces many challenges, panelists at World Nuclear Symposium agreed. However, plans for a new multilateral bank specifically for nuclear infrastructure could help projects move forward. "I think we all share a …
AECL, AtkinsRéalis to collaborate on advanced Candu design
WEBSep 9, 2024 · AtkinsRéalis' vision of a Candu Monark plant (Image: AtkinsRéalis) AtkinsRéalis unveiled its plans for the 1000 MW Candu Monark, a Generation III+ reactor with the highest output of any Candu technology, last November, saying the new design would build on the commercial success of currently operating Candu units and decades of design development to offer amongst other things a higher output ...
CNEA and Nucleoeléctrica sign CAREM SMR agreement
WEBAn aerial view of the pilot plant, in November 2022 (Image: CNEA) The technical assistance framework agreement was signed by CNEA president Adriana Serquis and Nucleoeléctrica President José Luis Antúnez and will have a two-year duration, extendable by mutual agreement, and provides a general framework for contracts for …
US regulator completes first SMR design certification rulemaking
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Monday, 23 January 2023. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued the final rule certifying NuScale Power's small modular reactor, making it the seventh reactor design - and the first SMR - to be cleared by the regulator for use in the USA. How a VOYGR plant could look (Image: NuScale)
Full-scale production of NuScale SMR to begin
WEBSep 9, 2024 · Park (on the left) and Hopkins pictured at the signing ceremonyat Doosan Tower in Seoul (Image: Doosan) Under an agreement signed on 25 April, the Korean company could begin production of forging materials for the reactors this year, with full-scale equipment manufacturing expected to begin by the latter half of 2023.
Podcast: How are the USA's historic new Vogtle nuclear units doing?
WEBPodcast: How are the USA's historic new Vogtle nuclear units doing? Southern Nuclear's Senior Vice President at Vogtle 3 and 4, John Williams, on the achievement of completing the first new US nuclear power units in more than 30 years - and the lessons which can be shared. Williams talks about the "tremendous pride" felt by everyone involved in ...
China's demonstration HTR-PM enters commercial operation
WEBIt follows a successful 168-hour demonstration run for the High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor - Pebble-bed Module (HTR-PM) in Shidao Bay (also known as Shidaowan), in Shandong Province, which is currently operating at 2×200 MWt power. The HTR-PM features two small reactors (each of 250 MWt) that drive a single 210 MWe steam turbine.
SMR fuel supply chain grows as agreements signed
WEBSep 11, 2024 · Ontario Power Generation has selected suppliers Cameco, Urenco USA, Orano and Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas for the first fuel contracts for its planned small modular reactor units at the Darlington New Nuclear Project, while TerraPower and uranium producer Uranium Energy Corp are to work together on the fuel supply chain ahead of the construction of the first-of-a-kind Natrium plant.