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Akkuyu nuclear plant's first airlock gateway installed

Akkuyu nuclear plant's first airlock gateway installed

The 7-metre diameter and 14-metre-long cylindrical chamber has an airlock system allowing the moving of material or equipment into and out of the heart of the first unit at Turkey's new Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant.

New Nuclear 03 May 2024

Partnership for ARC-100 commercialisation

Partnership for ARC-100 commercialisation

A trilateral collaboration agreement has been signed to further cooperation between Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, ARC Clean Technology and New Brunswick Power with the goal of establishing teaming agreements for global small modular reactor fleet deployment. It follows the signing of a memorandum of understanding last November.

New Nuclear 02 May 2024

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Work under way for first Westinghouse AP1000 in Ukraine

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Further Norwegian site identified for SMRs

Commercial operation marks completion of Vogtle expansion

Funds awarded to assist Xe-100 deployment in the UK

Partnership aims to drive forward HTMR-100 SMR in South Africa

Norwegian town initiates nuclear plant zoning work

Flamanville EPR aiming for summer 2024 grid connection

STEP components to undergo testing in Czech research reactor

STEP components to undergo testing in Czech research reactor

High temperature superconducting tapes for use in the UK's prototype fusion power plant will be tested in a Czech research reactor following the signing of an agreement between the UK Atomic Energy Authority and Research Centre Řež.

New Nuclear 02 May 2024

Production of ITER poloidal field coils completed

Production of ITER poloidal field coils completed

The manufacture of poloidal field coil No 3 - the final poloidal field coil produced for the ITER fusion machine - has been completed in the Poloidal Field Coils Winding Facility at the construction site in Cadarache, France.

New Nuclear 01 May 2024

Lufeng 5 inner dome hoisted into place

Lufeng 5 inner dome hoisted into place

The inner containment dome has been installed at unit 5 of the Lufeng nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province. It is the first of two HPR1000 (Hualong One) under construction at the site, where four CAP1000s are also planned.

New Nuclear 30 April 2024

KHNP and EDF submit updated bids for four new Czech units

KHNP and EDF submit updated bids for four new Czech units

ČEZ and its Elektrárna Dukovany II subsidiary have received binding bids from Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power and France's EDF for the construction of four new nuclear units in the Czech Republic.

New Nuclear 30 April 2024

Thailand considers deployment of Seaborg power barge

Thailand considers deployment of Seaborg power barge

Thai innovative and sustainable power company Global Power Synergy Public Company Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding with Denmark's Seaborg Technologies ApS to explore the potential deployment of the compact molten salt reactor Power Barge in Thailand.

New Nuclear 30 April 2024

Forging work begins for Paks II project reactor vessel

Forging work begins for Paks II project reactor vessel

The mayor of Paks in Hungary was among those present in Russia to see the start of forging of blanks for the reactor vessel of the first unit at the Paks II nuclear power plant, which Rosatom is building.

New Nuclear 30 April 2024

Commercial operation marks completion of Vogtle expansion

Commercial operation marks completion of Vogtle expansion

Georgia Power has announced the start of commercial operations at the second of the two AP1000 units built as an expansion of the existing two-unit Vogtle plant. The plant is now the largest generator of clean energy in the USA.

New Nuclear 29 April 2024

Construction starts of second Lianjiang unit

Construction starts of second Lianjiang unit

The first safety-related concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 2 at the Lianjiang nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province. It is the second of two CAP1000 units planned as the initial phase of the plant, which will eventually house six such reactors.

New Nuclear 29 April 2024