Japan’s Tohoku Electric Power Co has unit 2 at its Onagawa NPP in Miyagi Prefecture for inspection, following the detection of a trace of radioactive steam. The reactor 825 MWe boiling water reactor ...

Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, has confirmed an agreement with Russia for the construction of eight nuclear plants in the southern Iranian provinces of Bushehr and ...

The Kazakh government has approved the location for its second NPP. According to an official decree, the facility will be constructed in the Zhambyl district of the Almaty region, adjacent to the site ...

Rwanda plans to invest up to $6bn in NPPs as part of its strategy to secure reliable electricity and support long-term economic growth, President Paul Kagame told the global nuclear energy summit in ...

3D modelling of Kyoto Fusioneering’s UNITY integrated testing facility for fusion power generation (Credit: Kyoto Fusioneering) Japan-based Kyoto Fusioneering has been awarded a major contract by UK ...

California-based startup Radiant Nuclear (formerly Radiant Industries) has raised more than $300m in a new round of funding just six months since closing its Series C round in June. Radiant said this ...

Kiki Lauwers, CEO of Thorizon and Young Choi, Chief Operating Officer of Hyundai E&C at the MOU signing ceremony (Image credit: Thorizon) French-Dutch start-up Thorizon and South Korea’s Hyundai ...

Pravir Sinha, CEO of leading Indian power company Tata Power, told shareholders that the company is advancing its plans for small modular reactors (SMRs). He said the company is in the process of ...

An unmanned aerial vehicle has crashed near the power units of the Zaporizhia NPP (ZNPP). The drone did not detonate when it fell, which according to a statement on ZNPP’s Max and Telegram channels.

The Supervisory Board of Ukrainian nuclear utility Energoatom has adopted a series of decisions aimed at strengthening integrity, accountability, and corporate governance. The actions were taken at an ...

The ageing nuclear waste facility in the Asse II salt mine near Wolfenbüttel in Lower Saxony is facing a growing problem of water penetration. The mine, which holds some 126,000 barrels of low- and ...

Vogtle units 3 and 4 are AP1000 units from Westinghouse (Source: Georgia Power) The US Government (Department of Commerce) has entered into a binding term sheet with Canada-based Cameco Corporation ...