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Apr 17, 2025 · News, features and analysis covering the global nuclear energy sector, supported by World Nuclear Association
DOE selects HALEU enrichment providers - World Nuclear News
Oct 18, 2024 · The US Department of Energy has selected Louisiana Energy Services, Orano Federal Services, General Matter and American Centrifuge Operating to provide enrichment services to help establish a US supply of high-assay low-enriched uranium. ;
Key Cernavoda 3 and 4 engineering contract signed
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).
More countries sign declaration to triple nuclear capacity
Nov 13, 2024 · At the COP29 UN climate change conference taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, six more countries - El Salvador, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Nigeria and Turkey - have added their support for the tripling of global nuclear energy capacity by 2050.
Canadian government announces nuclear investments
A rendering of the Monark concept (Image: AtkinsRéalis) Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson announced that the government had entered into a preliminary agreement with AtkinsRéalis to finance up to half of the design costs of a "new, large-scale, natural uranium-fuelled Canadium deuterium nuclear reactor (e.g. Monark)" to a maximum of CAD304 million, through a loan ...
TerraPower breaks ground for Natrium plant - World Nuclear News
The groundbreaking ceremony marks the start of non-nuclear construction work at the site (Image: TerraPower) The 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten salt-based energy storage system - which can boost the system's output to 500 MW of power when needed, allowing it to integrate seamlessly with renewable resources - is being built near a retiring coal-fired plant.
In Quotes: What to watch out for in 2025 - World Nuclear News
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.
Uranium & Fuel - World Nuclear News
Apr 15, 2025 · BWX Technologies, Inc has acquired 97 acres of land in Oak Ridge with plans to establish advanced centrifuge manufacturing capability that "will support the establishment of a reliable, long-term domestic supply of enriched uranium, an …
Eight RITM reactors currently under production - World Nuclear …
(Image: Rosatom) The new generation of Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers - the Project 22220 vessels - each feature two RITM-200 reactors and the ZIO-Podolsk plant, part of Rosatom's machine-building division, has already manufactured 10 of them for the icebreakers Arktika, Sibir, Ural, Yakutia and Chukotka.. The RITM-200 reactors, having demonstrated their suitability for Arctic conditions ...
Moltex reactor can consume used fuel, research confirms
Oct 4, 2024 · Moltex Energy Canada says new research demonstrates "the unique capability" of its Stable Salt Reactor - Wasteburner (SSR-W) to consume used nuclear fuel, supporting its ongoing development of a reactor that can "significantly reduce …