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IAEA conference discusses safety of evolutionary and innovative reactor designs
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...
French strike affects 20 nuclear power reactors
Strikes have affected almost a third of France's nuclear reactors, a power union official said, delaying maintenance at many of them just as EDF is pushing to get some its fleet...
IAEA sees strengthened operational safety at UAE’s Barakah NPP
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Operational Safety Review Team (OSART) has concluded a five-day follow up mission to the UAE’s Barakah NPP. The mission, which focused on...
IAEA issues report on Zaporozhzhia and addresses UN Security Council
On 6 September the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a lengthy report on the situation in Ukraine, and later that day IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi...
French regulator allows temporary modification of thermal discharges at NPPs during heatwave
French nuclear regulator Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN) has decided to extend the temporary framework for thermal discharges from the Golfech, Saint-Alban, Blayais and Bugey...
LTO safety review completed at Mexico’s Laguna Verde NPP
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 the Laguna Verde...
Framatome and Inria partner to accelerate NPP safety studies
France’s Framatome has announced a strategic partnership with Inria, the French national institute for research in digital science and technology, to accelerate studies for...
More problems for OL3
The trial operation of the EPR reactor at unit 3 of Finland’s Olkiluoto NPP (OL3) will be suspended for more than a month due to loose parts problems with the turbine's superheater,...
IAEA completes safety review at Brazil’s Angra NPP
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safety Aspects of Long Term Operation (Salto) team has completed a review of long-term operational safety of unit 1 at the Angra NPP...
IAEA reviews operational safety at France’s Civaux NPP
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Operational Safety Review Team (OSART) team of experts have completed a five day mission to France’s Civaux NPP. The mission, carried out...
IAEA receives required equipment list from Ukraine
Ukraine has provided the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with a comprehensive list of equipment which it says it needs for the safe and secure operation of its...
IAEA prepares for missions to Chernobyl and other Ukrainian nuclear sites
Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 9 April that it was gradually restoring regulatory control of nuclear and radiation safety at the Chernobyl NPP but...
IAEA reports no significant developments in Ukraine
Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 6 April that there had been no significant new developments related to nuclear safety or security in the country over...
IAEA Director General concludes meetings in Ukraine and Russia
Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 1 April that it was “analysing the possibility” of resuming regulatory control of the Chernobyl nuclear power...
IAEA urges agreement to enable assistance at nuclear facilities in Ukraine
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said yesterday, 23 March, that the IAEA stands ready to send experts and equipment to Ukraine to...
IAEA says power restored to Zaporozhye
Power has been restored to Ukraine's Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and some workers have been able to rotate shift at Chernobyl after being on-site for almost four weeks.
Electricity production begins at OL3
The EPR reactor at unit 3 of Finland’s Olkiluoto NPP (OL3), which was commissioned in December 2021, was finally connected to the national grid with a capacity of 103MWe on 12...
Restart of Japan’s Tokai 2 deferred again
Japan Atomic Power Company (JAPC) said on 28 February that it does not now expect to complete required safety upgrades at Tokai 2, an 1100MWe boiling water reactor, in Ibaraki...
Petten HFR reactor expected to restart in a month
The High Flux Reactor (HFR) project team at NRG in Petten in the Netherlands has provided a further progress update on the reactor’s extended closure.
