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US Has Lifted Sanctions On Hungary’s Paks II Nuclear Project, Says Foreign Minister
Source: NucNetThe US government has lifted sanctions that had held up Hungary’s planned expansion of its Paks nuclear power station, foreign minister Peter Szijjártó said on 29 June. Donald Trump’s administration withdrew the penalties imposed during…
Holtec CEO Says Firm Will Go Public
Topics: Industry & BusinessSource: Neutron BytesHoltec CEO Says Firm Will Go Public Later This Year According to a report in Barrons, a financial news service, Holtec CEO Krishna Singh told Barrons on 06/23/25 that the firm plans to go public…
Tepco Completes Unit 6 Fuel Loading As Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Station Approaches Restart
Source: NucNetTokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has completed loading all 872 fuel assemblies into the core of Unit 6 at its Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata prefecture, western Japan, ahead of a planned restart.…
Bulgaria’s Kozloduy-5 Completes First Fuel Cycle With Westinghouse RWFA Assemblies
Source: NucNetUnit 5 of Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear power station has completed its first fuel cycle using 43 Westinghouse-made RWFA (Robust Westinghouse Fuel Assembly) fuel assemblies, the country’s national nuclear regulator said. The Bulgarian Nuclear Regulatory Agency…
Former NRC Officials Send Letter of Protest on the Firing of Commissioner Hanson
Topics: Policy & RegulationSource: Neutron BytesOn June 16th President Donald Trump fired a Democratic commissioner for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The action is part of the Trump Administrations efforts to reign in the authority of independent regulatory agencies. In…
Russia And Uzbekistan Agree To Study Project For Large-Scale Nuclear Plants
Source: NucNetRussia’s state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom and Uzbekistan’s nuclear energy agency (Uzatom) have signed an agreement to study the possibility of building a nuclear power station the Central Asian country, potentially comprising two to four VVER-1000…
Norwegian Nuclear Developer Forms New Company For Possible SMR Deployment
Source: NucNetNorwegian nuclear project developer Norsk Kjernekraft and Austrheim Municipality have established a new company to look at the potential deployment of a nuclear power plant consisting of several small modular reactors (SMRs). The planned plant…
Grossi Calls For Resumption Of IAEA’s ‘Indispensable’ Nuclear Verification Work In Iran
Source: NucNetInternational Atomic Energy Agency director-general Rafael Grossi has stressed the need for a resumption of the IAEA’s “indispensable safeguards verification work” in Iran following a 12-day military conflict that severely damaged several of its nuclear…
GVH Announces Plans For ‘Cutting Edge’ SMR Engineering And Service Centre In Canada
Source: NucNetGE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) is to establish a cutting-edge engineering and service centre for BWRX-300 small modular reactors (SMRs) near Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) Darlington new nuclear project site. The company said on…
US DOE Releases More Funding To Restart Palisades Nuclear Power Plant
Source: NucNetUS Department of Energy has released the fourth loan disbursement to Holtec International to help with the company’s plan to restart the shuttered single-unit Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan. The move, announced on 20 June,…
DOE’s Wishful Thinking About Expedited Testing of Advanced Reactors
Source: Neutron BytesThe Department of Energy wants to “expedite” the testing of advanced reactors at sites other than at national labs like the INL where a number of advanced SMRs and microreactors are planning to build their…
TerraPower Lands $650 Million Investment
Source: Neutron BytesTerraPower Lands $650 Million in New Investment Funding TerraPower, which is developing a first-of-a-kind sodium cooled advanced 345 MW small modular reactor, announced this week it closed on $650 million from new and current investors.…
US DOE Extends Centrus’ Contract To Produce Crucial Haleu For Advanced Reactors
Source: NucNetThe US Department of Energy has extended Centrus Energy’s contract to produce high-assay, low-enriched uranium (Haleu) to 30 June 2026 with additional options for continued production for up to eight additional years. In 2019, the…
Slovakia Preparing To Sign Agreement For Westinghouse To Build New Bohunice Nuclear Plant, Says PM
Source: NucNetSlovakia is preparing to sign an intergovernmental agreement with the US that would pave the way for Westinghouse Electric Company to build a new nuclear reactor unit at the existing Bohunice site, prime minister Robert…
ARC Clean Technology And Deep Atomic Sign Deal To Explore Nuclear For Data Centres
Source: NucNetARC Clean Technology and Deep Atomic have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the deployment of ARC-100 small modular reactors (SMRs) to power next-generation data centres and AI infrastructure. ARC, which has offices in…
Czech Republic Takes Key Step In Plans To Diversify Nuclear Fuel Supplies
Source: NucNetWestinghouse has completed the first VVER fuel reload deliveries to the Temelín and Dukovany nuclear power stations in the Czech Republic, marking what the US company called “a key milestone” in Prague’s strategy to increase…
Sweden’s SKB Signs Key Repository Contract With Swiss Construction Company
Source: NucNetSweden’s nuclear fuel management company SKB has signed an agreement with Switzerland-based construction company Implenia for work on a deep geologic repository which will store highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel for 100,000 years. SKB said…
Russia Grants Five-Year Life Extension For Smolensk-2 Nuclear Plant
Source: NucNetRussia’s nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor has granted a five-year licence extension for Unit 2 of the Smolensk nuclear power station, state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom said in a statement. Rosatom said the move will allow the reactor…
IAEA Chief Says Natanz Above-Ground Enrichment Plant Destroyed, No Off-Site Radiation Release
Source: NucNetInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general Rafael Grossi said today (16 June) that there has been no additional damage at Iran’s Natanz fuel enrichment facility since initial Israeli strikes on 13 June, with levels of…
Kazakhstan Chooses Rosatom To Lead First Nuclear Power Plant Project
Source: NucNetKazakhstan has selected Russia’s state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom to lead an international consortium for the deployment of the Central Asian country’s first nuclear power station. The Kazakhstan Atomic Energy Agency (KAEA) said in a statement…