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US DOE studies advanced reactors for CO2 removal system
13 September, 2023
A US Department of Energy (DOE) report has suggested pairing...
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A good year for Loviisa NPP
Wednesday, January 04, 2023 by Finland’s Loviisa NPP had “a good production year in 2022”, according to owner/operator Fortum. The two-unit NPP generated a total of 7.9 TWh avoiding 6m tonnes of CO2 emissions. The...

Temelín and Dukovany pass environmental audit
Friday, December 16, 2022 by Both the Temelin and Dukovany NPPs in the Czech Republic meet the requirements of the international standard for environmental management, power company ČEZ has said. This followed...

Pakistan’s Karachi 3 completes acceptance tests
Thursday, April 21, 2022 by On 18 April, unit 3 of Pakistan’s Karachi NPP, a 1100 MWe Chinese supplied HPR1000 (Hualong One) pressurised water reactor (PWR), completed acceptance tests, marking the start of...

Exelon faces closure of its Illinois NPPs if new legislation is not adopted
Thursday, July 22, 2021 by US power utility Exelon said on 19 July that the four nuclear plants serving Chicago and northern Illinois are approaching a combined 41 years, or 15,000 consecutive days, of...

Tests at Zaporozhye NPP prepare Ukraine for integration with European grid
Thursday, May 13, 2021 by Ukraine nuclear utility Energoatom, together with Ukrenergo, on 8-9 May conducted tests at unit 1 of the Zaporozhye NPP to confirm compliance with the requirements of the...

India’s Kudankulam-2 connected to grid
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 by Unit 2 at India’s Kudankulam NPP, a Russian supplied VVER-1000 reactor, was connected to the southern grid on 29 August, and is now slowly increasing power production from an...

UK NPP achieves world record
Tuesday, August 09, 2016 by Unit 2 of the UK’s Heysham II NPP, operated by EDF Energy, broke the world record for the continuous operation of a commercial nuclear power reactor on 1 August. The Advanced...

German NPP breaks world record
Saturday, March 26, 2016 by Germany's single unit Grohnde NPP, a 1,360MWe pressurised water reactor, has become the world’s first commercial reactor to have generated a combined total of more than 350TWh...

NRC reports good performance for most US power reactors
Tuesday, March 08, 2016 by The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has placed 96 of the USA's 99 operating nuclear power reactors in the top two of its categories for performance in 2015. NRC assesses...

IAEA OSART mission to Flamanville site completed
Thursday, October 23, 2014 by An international team of nuclear safety experts led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today completed an assessment of operational safety at Flamanville 1&2 in France....

Record year for UK nuclear power stations
Thursday, January 17, 2013 by EDF Energy has reported that its eight UK nuclear power stations produced their highest output for seven years in 2012.

Bruce B breaks operational record
Thursday, December 13, 2012 by

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