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Zaporizhzhia Drone Strikes / IAEA’s Grossi Warns Against Violating Principles Preventing Nuclear Accidents
Topics: Safety & EnvironmentSource: NucNetInternational Atomic Energy Agency director-general Rafael Grossi has called for compliance with the key principles preventing nuclear accidents as he said they were violated by recent drone strikes on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine.…
Romania / Grossi Promises Deeper Collaboration As IAEA Says Doicesti Nuclear Site Selection Meets Safety Standards
Source: NucNetAn International Atomic Energy Agency mission has concluded that the selection of Doicesti in central Romania as the site for deployment of small modular reactors complied with the agency’s safety standards. State-owned nuclear power company…
Advanced Reactors / newcleo Signs LFR Agreement With France’s CEA
Source: NucNetEuropean nuclear technology developer newcleo has signed a partnership agreement with France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) that includes looking at possible scenarios for the development and deployment of advanced lead-cooled fast reactors…
Nuclear Fusion / Germany’s Proxima Raises €20 Million For QI Stellarator Reactor
Source: NucNetProxima Fusion, a spinoff of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, has raised €20m ($21.7m) in seed funding to build the first generation of fusion power plants based on quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarators…
China / CGN Announces First Criticality At Fangchenggang-4 Nuclear Power Plant
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNetUnit 4 of the Fangchenggang nuclear power station in the Guangxi region of southern China has reached first criticality, China General Nuclear (CGN) announced. CGN said the 1,000 MW plant reached criticality for the first…
Poland / Report Outlines Economic Benefits Of Westinghouse AP1000 Deployment
Source: NucNetThe deployment of six Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power units will produce more than $30bn (€27bn) of gross domestic product impact while their subsequent operation would generate $9.5bn in GDP annually, a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers has…
Turkey / Akkuyu-1 Nuclear Plant Begins ‘Full-Scale’ Commissioning Stage, Says Rosatom
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNetThe “full-scale” commissioning phase has begun for Unit 1 of the Akkuyu nuclear power station under construction in southwest Turkey, Russian project developer Rosatom said. Alexey Likhachev, head of the Russian state-owned nuclear power corporation,…
Challenges and Opportunities for Microsoft’s AI Data Centers
Source: Neutron BytesData Center Dynamics, a computer industry trade publication based in London, UK, published a report that Microsoft and OpenAI plan to build a new $100 billion supercomputer center that will require 5 GW of electrical…
Oklo Signs $25M Deal for Data Center Power
Source: Neutron BytesOklo Signs $25M Deal for Data Center Power Norway Opens Site Selection Process for Five SMRs UK Gov’t Awards $3.4M to X-Energy and Cavendish Nuclear for Supply Chain Work New Industry Association for Maritime Nuclear…
Maritime / Global Names Announce New Association For Nuclear Power In Shipping
Source: NucNetNuclear shipping stakeholders have formed a new association that aims to help nuclear and maritime regulators in the development of standards and rules for the deployment, operation and decommissioning of nuclear power plants for the…
China / Shidao Bay HTR-PM Nuclear Energy Heating Project Begins Operation
Source: NucNetA project to use the Generation IV* Shidao Bay-1 nuclear power unit in in Shandong province, northeastern China, to generate nuclear heating has been connected to the heating grid and begun operation, state electricity generator…
Advanced Reactors / X-energy and TransAlta To Study Feasibility Of Xe-100 Nuclear Plant In Alberta
Source: NucNetUS-based nuclear reactor and fuel design company X-energy and Canadian power producer TransAlta are to study the feasibility of deploying an X-energy Xe-100 advanced small modular nuclear reactor at a repurposed fossil fuel power plant…
Langer Heinrich / Paladin Announces First Commercial Production From Namibia Mine
Source: NucNetAustralia-based Paladin Energy has announced the first commercial production from the Langer Heinrich uranium mine since operations were suspended at the Namibian project in 2018 in an effort to preserve the mine’s uranium resource and…
Japan / Court Allows Five Nuclear Reactors At Mihama And Takahama To Continue Operation
Source: NucNetA Japanese district court on Friday (29 March) rejected petitions from residents and allowed five commercial nuclear reactors in western Japan to continue operations. Local residents had asked the Fukui District Court to halt operation…
Constellation Saves Millions Using Blue Wave AI Tools
Source: Neutron BytesConstellation Saves Millions Using Blue Wave AI Tools TerraPower Submits Its Natrium Construction Permit Application the NRC South Korea Gears Up For Advanced Reactor Development Urenco Signs New Nuclear Fuel Contract With South Korea Eagle…
Japan / Tepco Applies For Fuel Load Approval As Kashiwazaki Kariwa Restart Moves Closer
Source: NucNetTokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has applied for regulatory approval to load nuclear fuel into Unit 7 at its Kashiwazaki Kariwa power station in Niigata Prefecture, western Japan, from April 15 as it seeks to…
US / AI Tools Deployed At Constellation Nuclear Plants ‘Could Help Company Save Millions’
Source: NucNetUS-based technology company Blue Wave AI Labs has successfully deployed machine learning (ML) tools at two nuclear power plants operated by Constellation, potentially saving the company millions of dollars per reactor each year, the US…
Holtec’s Audacious Plan to Reopen Palisades Pays Off
Source: Neutron BytesThere are likely some celebrations taking place in Jupiter, FL, home of Holtec Intl, where the firm learned today (03/27/24) that the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced a conditional commitment…
Nuclear Energy Summit 2024 / Industry Needs Global Interconnections For New Reactors, Says Belgium’s Prime Minister
Source: NucNetGrid interconnections are needed globally to allow for the investment in all new energy technologies including nuclear, said Alexander De Croo, the prime minister of Belgium, which co-hosted the first ever nuclear energy summit (NES)…
Kenya / African Nation Backs Nuclear With $83 Million Budget For First Research Reactor
Source: NucNetKenya has unveiled plans for the development of a nuclear power programme over the next five years that would see it allocate $83m (€76m) by 2027 towards the cost of its first nuclear research reactor.…