Category: Industry News – Nuclear

Workers gather in the Unit 3 turbine hall to celebrate 45 years of the unit’s operation and one month until the beginning of its Major Component Replacement (MCR) outage. Bruce Power February 1, 2023 Bruce Power’s Unit 3 marked 45 years of commercial operation on Feb. 1, with the Bruce A unit beginning its lengthy…
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Office of Nuclear Energy April 3, 2020 More than 20 U.S. companies are developing advanced reactors that will completely change the way we think about the nuclear industry. Most of these new reactor designs will be smaller, more flexible and less expensive to build and operate. Some of them may consume used nuclear fuel or help bring…
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(1) Nuclear reactor zones (2) Sandstone (3) Uranium ore layer (4) Granite Laura Gil IAEA Office of Public Information and Communication August 10, 2018 Physicist Francis Perrin sat at a nuclear fuel-processing plant down in the south of France, thinking to himself: “This cannot be possible.” It was 1972. On the one hand, there was…
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The restart of only one nuclear reactor will allow Japan to reduce imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by one million tons, Japanese Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Wednesday UrduPoint Muhammad Irfan January 18, 2023 TOKYO (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 18th January, 2023) The restart of only one nuclear reactor will allow Japan to reduce imports of…
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World Nuclear Association Updated July 2022 In 2021 Kazakhstan produced the largest share of uranium from mines (45% of world supply), followed by Namibia (12%) and Canada (10%). Production from mines (tonnes U) Country 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Kazakhstan 21,317 22,451 23,127 23,607 24,689 23,321 21,705 22,808 19,477 21,819…
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World Nuclear News 17 January 2023 The French Senate has begun discussing a bill aimed at accelerating procedures related to the construction of new nuclear facilities near existing nuclear sites and to the operation of existing facilities. In February last year, President Emmanuel Macron proposed the construction of six new EPR2 reactors, with an option…
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Emma Derr | NEI December 15, 2022 This year saw many major world events. Russia invaded Ukraine—the largest military attack in Europe since WWII. Our world continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as inflation, and the UN talked climate at the annual COP meeting in Egypt. Against the background of geopolitical upheaval and…
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The reactor pressure vessel was built in France | EDF Energy Tess de la Mare | BBC News December 16, 2022 Hinkley Point C’s first nuclear reactor is built and ready to be delivered. The reactor pressure vessel is the first to be built for a British power station for more than 30 years.  It…
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Riley Beggin | Hannah Mackay | The Detroit News December 19, 2022 Updated December 20, 2022 Holtec International, the owner of the Palisades nuclear plant near South Haven, will reapply for federal funding in an attempt to revive the shuttered plant. The company applied for funds through the U.S. Energy Department’s Civil Nuclear Credit Program…
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