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The latest nuclear energy news from around the world. WNN is produced from the World Nuclear Association secretariat. Website: Podcast: Substack:
Podcast: Nuclear generates about a fifth of Spain's electricity, but the plan is to close all its power reactors by 2035. Will there be a rethink? In this episode Marta Ugalde, President of Foro Nuclear, outlines the current situation. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/wil...
Chernobyl at 40: The exclusion zone has become a haven for wildlife, as well as providing a unique living laboratory for scientific study of the impact of radioactive elements. Plus - a look at Chernobyl's place in popular culture www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/che...
Chernobyl at 40: The decommissioning challenge - forty years after the accident, what is the current situation and what does the future hold? www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/che...
The inspection of primary equipment at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant unit 1 has been completed, and an operating licence issued, paving the way for fuel loading at Bangladesh's first nuclear power unit. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/ope...
The US Department of the Air Force has selected Radiant Industries, Inc, Westinghouse Government Services and Antares Inc as potential microreactor developers and operators under its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations initiative. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/us-...
Duke Energy's Robinson nuclear power plant in South Carolina has been cleared for an 80-year operating lifetime after the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission completed the fastest licence renewal review in the agency's history. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/us-...
What caused the 1986 Chernobyl accident + its health effects + how the alarm was raised internationally at a nuclear plant in Sweden + how lessons learned led to a global safety culture which underpins the widespread plans for new nuclear capacity. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/che...
🎙️Nuclear power plants produce medical isotopes that diagnose and save lives, a true 'hidden gem' as James Scongack explains in the latest WNN podcast: world-nuclear-news.org/articles/pod...
Westinghouse Electric Company and Bechtel have said they welcomed the announcement by the Polish government of its intention to allocate PLN60 billion (USD15.7 billion) to fund the country’s first #nuclear power plant: www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/bec...
🎙️ Podcast - Assessing the significance of the 14 international banks giving their support to the goal of tripling nuclear capacity + key decision-makers on the challenges/opportunities for private finance in new nuclear: www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/pod...
🎙️Podcast: A special report on the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2024 conference held in Kazakhstan, with leading industry figures giving their views on the challenges and opportunities ahead. www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Pod...
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission should address potential impacts of climate change–related hazards during the licensing process for nuclear power plants, the Government Accountability Office has recommended. www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NRC...
Waste transfer milestone at Scottish plant - the retrieval's been completed of more than 2100 tonnes of solid intermediate-level radioactive waste from five above-ground concrete bunkers at the Hunterston A Magnox nuclear power plant in Scotland. www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Was...
Podcast: How nuclear 'waste' can save lives - Prof Tim Tinsley outlines how material extracted from the UK's legacy nuclear material is being used in pioneering cancer treatments and for powering future space missions www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Pod...
The final Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant unit is being switched to cold shutdown, it has been announced. Putting all six units in cold shutdown is something the IAEA has been calling for. www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fin...
All remaining highly enriched uranium from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency's Japan Materials Testing Reactor Critical Assembly has now been returned to the USA. www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fur...
Japan demonstrates floating seismic isolation system for SMRs www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Jap...
Podcast: Newcleo's UK operations managing director Andrew Murdoch on its lead-cooled fast reactor technology, its plans for a demonstrator reactor and MOX fuel factory in France, and its future goal of rolling out up to 20 of its reactors in the UK: www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Pod...
The Joint European Torus (JET) produced the largest amount of energy achieved in a #fusion experiment during its final round of deuterium-tritium experiments, breaking its own record set in 2021. www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New...
The UK's Hinkley Point C #nuclear power plant is now unlikely to be operational before 2030, with the overall cost revised to between GBP31 to GBP34 billion (in 2015 prices), EDF has said: tinyurl.com/2s47jpns
Canadian regulators have concluded that there are no fundamental barriers to licensing the Xe-100 small modular reactor, X-Energy Reactor Company has announced #nuclear tinyurl.com/295c9zu6
The Technical University of Denmark is establishing a new interdisciplinary centre that will consolidate and strengthen research in #nuclear power technologies: tinyurl.com/6ywu58ym
The Estonian government's Nuclear Energy Working Group has concluded that introducing #nuclear energy to the country would help to meet climate goals and increase energy security, with small modular reactors deemed to be the most suitable for the country tinyurl.com/myv5byaf
🎙️Podcast - A special report on nuclear energy's breakthrough moments at COP28 - plus Sama Bilbao y León reviews the highlights of 2023 and picks out the likely key moments in the coming year: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Pod...
NuScale's NPM-20 small modular reactor technology is compliant with Polish #nuclear safety & radiological protection standards, the president of the National Atomic Energy Agency said in a general opinion tinyurl.com/43rm8bsf
The 281-tonne reactor pressure vessel has been successfully hoisted into position at unit 3 of the Haiyang #nuclear power plant in China's Shandong province, in a process which took just over two hours tinyurl.com/36wtxrae
Unit 2 of the Shin Hanul #nuclear power plant in South Korea has began supplying its first electricity to the grid, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power announced tinyurl.com/4ysdepsk