UK commits funding for Rolls-Royce small nuclear modular reactors
A consortium led by British engineering company Rolls-Royce has secured a commitment from the government to invest in the development…
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Feruta takes over the IAEA leadership, only in interim for the moment
Bogdan Tudorache The Romanian diplomat Cornel Feruţă one of the two candidates nominated to take over the position of general…
PwC: Elcomex won contracts of over RON 80 mln., to exit insolvency
Elcomex, the leader of the Romanian market of services and solutions for Nuclear Power Plants, is heading to insolvency exit…
Turkey’s Akkuyu nuclear plant facing numerous safety concerns – Birgün
Top-level officials working at Turkey’s Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant construction project say a series of problems, including lack of design…
IAEA Director Yukiya Amano has died
Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, has died, the agency said on Monday. “The Secretariat of…
Another Russian nuclear plant taken down after malfunction
Three units have been unplugged at a nuclear power plant in Russia after a short circuit, less than a week…
Dumitriu, Nuclearelectrica: Without CfDs there’s no business potential for reactors 3 and 4
We can not talk about the construction of reactors 3 and 4 in the absence of the CfDs, because at…
Cornel Feruţă, candidate to take over the IAEA directorate
The Romanian diplomat Cornel Feruţă is one of the two candidates nominated to take over the position of general director…
Security scares at Sellafield nuclear waste plant raise fears of disaster ‘worse then Chernobyl’
Security scares at Sellafield raise fears of a disaster “worse than Chernobyl”, campaigners warn. The Sun on Sunday can reveal…
Bulgaria’s NPP Kozloduy reconnects nuclear reactor after capacity tests
Bulgaria’s state nuclear power plant Kozloduy reconnected on Sunday its 1,000 megawatt Unit 5 nuclear reactor after successfully completing increased…
EU co-finances new arch for Chernobyl
Reactor 4 of the Ukrainian Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been covered with a new arch and is the largest…
Czech government approved the construction of a new nuclear power plant
The Czech government has given preliminary approval for a plan by a subsidiary of electricity producer CEZ to build a…
New shutdown at the Kozloduy NPP, after the one from last week
Bogdan Tudorache NPP Kozloduy’s sixth block was shut down from the country’s energy system after the electrical protection was triggered,…
Bulgaria nuclear reactor shuts down after electric defences activates
Bulgarian nuclear power plant Kozloduy has shut down one of its two 1,000 megawatt units after a protection system was…
C. Ghiţă: Nuclearelectrica needs predictability, coherence and strategic continuity
If market regulations suffer major changes, then obviously exposure to risk increases, Cosmin Ghiţă, CEO of Nuclearelectrica – SNN, told…
Energy Minister, Energy Strategy Summit: Tarniţa in government meeting next week; negotiations with the EU on carbon certificates
Romania has a relatively balanced energy mix and it can cope with most of the situations, Energy Minister Anton Anton…
Nuclearelectrica keeps its money at Eximbank, gets an interest rate of over 3%
Bogdan Tudorache SN Nuclearelectrica reported the creation of a deposit of 61.5 million lei to Eximbank, shows a report presented…
EDF Energy expects UK nuclear plant where cracks found will reopen
EDF Energy said on Friday it was confident its Hunterston B nuclear plant in Scotland would eventually reopen, having been…
Japan plans carbon emission cuts, more nuclear energy
Japan is calling for further efforts to cut carbon emissions by promoting renewables but also nuclear energy despite the 2011…
Doru Visan: Either with the current version or with another approach, we will have at least one new nuclear group
Bogdan Tudorache Romania must have nuclear power and will have at least one new group – says State Secretary of…
Trump administration approved nuclear energy transfers to Saudis after Khashoggi killing
The Trump administration approved the transfer of nuclear energy information to Saudi Arabia on two occasions after the slaying of…
UK Nuclear: Energy bills ‘used to subsidise submarines’
Energy bills in the UK are inflated partly because households are subsidising nuclear submarines, MPs have been told. Experts think…
IEA rings alarm bell on phasing out nuclear energy
A steep decline in nuclear energy capacity will threaten climate goals and power supply security unless advanced economies find a…