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IAEA reviews long-term operational safety at Romania’s Cernavoda NPP
12 March, 2024
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Restart of Japan’s Onagawa 2 delayed until September
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 by Japan's Tohoku Electric has said it plans to restart unit 2 at its Onagawa nuclear station in Miyagi Prefecture around September after additional safety construction works have...

South African regulator amends operational timelines for Koeberg NPP units
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 by South Africa's National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) has approved a request from power utility Eskom to separate the operating timelines of the two units at the Koeberg NPP. Following a...

Automated control system introduced at five Russian NPPs
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 by An automated maintenance, repair and operation management system – TOREX – has been introduced at five Russian NPPs – Balakovo, Beloyarsk, Kola, Rostov and Smolensk. The idea of a...

US NRC warns VC Summer NPP over cracks
Friday, October 13, 2023 by The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a warning to the single unit VC Summer NPP in South Carolina over a cracked pipeline in the cooling system. The plant has reported...

IAEA sees operational safety commitment at Penly
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 by An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Operational Safety Review Team (OSART) team of experts concluded an 18-day mission to the Penly NPP in France at the request of the...

Unit 2 of Japan’s Shimane NPP to restart in 2024
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 by Japan’s Chugoku Electric Power Co announced that it will restart unit 2 at its Shimane NPP in the prefectural capital of Matsue in August 2024. This will be the first time the reactor...

Rosatom scientists test silicon carbide cladding
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 by Researchers at Russia’s AA Bochvar Research Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIINM - part of TVEL) together with specialists from the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR -...

Russian Kursk NPP unit closed after drone attack
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 by Unit 4 at Russia’s Kursk NPP was completely disconnected from the grid following a Ukrainian kamikaze drone carrying explosives fell near the station. Kursk NPP comprises four...

IAEA concludes long-term operation safety review at Kozloduy NPP
Friday, June 23, 2023 by An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safety Aspects of Long Term Operation (SALTO) team of experts has completed a review of long term operational safety at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy NPP.

Bulgaria to continue imports from Russia for Kozloduy NPP
Friday, March 24, 2023 by Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet has approved a derogation from European Union (EU) sanctions on Russia and will be able to import the materials and spare parts necessary for its...

ASN provisionally extends use of Flamanville EPR vessel head
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 by France's Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN) has issued a draft decision which should allow EDF to use the current reactor pressure vessel (RPV) head of the 1650 MWe EPR under...

New crack detected at France’s Penly NPP
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 by France’s Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN - l'Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire) has asked Électricité de France (EDF) to "revise its strategy" for repairing plants affected by stress...

No active faults identified under Ishikawa NPP
Wednesday, March 08, 2023 by Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has said there are no active faults underneath Hokuriku Electric Power Company’s Shika NPP, contrary to a previous view presented by an...

New impellers for OL3’s feedwater pumps
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 by Finland’s Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) said the EPR reactor at unit 3 of the Olkiluoto NPP (OL3) is expected to operate at full power in February after the feedwater pumps impellers...

KHNP hosts IAEA OSART mission at Saeul NPP units 1&2
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) has recently hosted an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Operational Safety Review Team (OSART) at units 1&2 of its Saeul NPP...

Akkuyu NPP hosts WANO support mission
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 by An expert mission to support the Moscow Centre of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO MC) has taken place at the Akkuyu NPP construction site in Turkey, according to...

More delays for restart of French reactors
Tuesday, November 08, 2022 by French utility EDF has discovered a radioactive leak in the primary cooling circuit of unit 1 at its Civaux NPP in southwestern France, according to a report by Reuters. While there...

US NRC validates NuScale’s Emergency Planning Zone boundary methodology
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 by NuScale has announced that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) has issued letter ML22287A155, concurring with NRC staff,...

IAEA conference discusses safety of evolutionary and innovative reactor designs
Friday, October 21, 2022 by As evolutionary and innovative reactor designs get closer to deployment in several countries, regulators are defining the best approaches for evaluating their safety and licensing...

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