Unit 1 of Russia’s Kursk-II NPP, with a Kursk NPP-2 with an innovative Generation 3+ 1,252 MWe VVER-TOI reactor begins commercial operation after receiving final approval from the Federal Service for ...

(Image credit: Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic) Rolls-Royce SMR and and Czech power company ČEZ Group have signed an Early Works Contract (EWC) that enables work to start on the ...

China’s Sanmen NPP has begun using “Enhanced Perception and Intelligent Inspection System for the On-Duty Operator”, developed by the China Nuclear Power Company’s Intelligent Robot & Equipment ...

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has renewed the operating licence for a second time for unit 2 of Duke Energy’s HB Robinson Steam Electric Plant in South Carolina. This is the fastest ...

The world’s first programme of pilot operation using uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (mox) fuel with the addition of minor actinides has been completed at the BN-800 fast neutron reactor at unit 4 of ...

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) has distributed SEK19.8m ($2.2m) to nine municipalities that have applied to carry out feasibility studies for the establishment of new ...

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has abandoned plans to create a Lunar Gateway orbital station around the Moon to focus on building a base at the lunar South Pole. To this ...

Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from academic research into industrial practice, but its adoption in nuclear engineering remains under cautious review. This reticence is not ideological but ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) have established the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad to promote the rapid development and implementation of advanced ...

The FLARE approach first compresses the fuel to high densities and then uses a separate process to ignite it (Source: First Light Fusion) The design of a power plant based on Inertial Confinement ...

A trainee working on advanced fusion engineering technology at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (Credit: UKAEA) The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has awarded contracts worth £8.1m ($11m ...

The existing buildings, including turbine halls and the large reinforced reactor domes at Biblis can be repurposed for laser laboratories, target fabrication, high-power laser test stations, and ...