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Time for a new focus on fast reactors
23 November, 2022
Fast neutron reactor designs have been under development since the earliest days of civil nuclear engineering. Despite their many potential advantages, the sector has been dogged by persistent technical challenges that have stunted the anticipated growth trajectory. That may all be about to change as breeder technology gets a rethink.

Hungary plans life extension for Paks NPP
15 November, 2022
Attila Steiner, Secretary of State for Energy at Hungary’s Ministry of Technology & Industry, introduced a bill at a recent meeting of the state assembly (unicameral parliament), proposing that Paks NPP should be authorised to operate for an additional 20 years.

Grossi active at COP27
14 November, 2022
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has said nuclear science and technology are part of the solution to both mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change impacts.

Westinghouse and KHNP may both build NPPs in Poland
03 November, 2022
Poland’s government has formally adopted a resolution on the implementation of its nuclear project “using a proven and safe technology in cooperation with the American company Westinghouse Nuclear”, according to the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. The decision to use Westinghouse AP1000 technology been announced earlier, on 28 October. Both France’s EDF and South Korean state-run company Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) had also submitted bids for the contract.

IAEA conference discusses safety of evolutionary and innovative reactor designs
21 October, 2022
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 their operation. This topic is centre stage at the four-day International Conference on Topical Issues in Nuclear Installation Safety: Strengthening Safety of Evolutionary and Innovative Reactor Designs, which opened in Vienna on 18 October.

Political developments undermine plans for talks on Zaporizhzhia protection zone
28 September, 2022
The site of Ukraine’s Zaporozhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) was hit by new shelling and explosions this week, breaking windows in one of its turbine halls and once again underlining the urgent need to establish a nuclear safety and security protection zone around the plant, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said on 27 September.

Next generation fast neutron reactors
28 September, 2022
We are running out of time to choose between good and bad in the power industry. Soon people will have to make a choice based on other criteria – between either extending the life of previous technologies or a new technology platform.

Nuclear Safety: Zaporizhzhia and military conflict
13 July, 2022
In March, Russian forces took control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and its satellite town. Olexiy Kovynyev reflects on the events and what it means for the safety of nuclear power in conflict zones.

US commits funding for Romanian SMR
30 June, 2022
US President Joe Biden has said at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Germany that the USA is committing $14 million toward a Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) study to provide the basis for the deployment of a small modular reactor (SMR) power plant in Romania. “This action is the next step in fulfilling the pledge made by Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Romania President Klaus Iohannis at the 2021 UN Conference on Climate Change in Glasgow (COP26), where they announced their intent to deploy an SMR in Romania in partnership with US firm NuScale Power,” the State Department noted in a statement.

Iran talks set to resume
27 June, 2022
EU Foreign Policy Chief Josef Borrell said during a recent visit to Tehran, that the Vienna talks will resume with the aim of reinstating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

World Nuclear Fuel Conference report
22 June, 2022
In the wake of the conflict in Ukraine, concerns over Russia’s major role in the nuclear fuel supply chain have been brought to the fore as the industry seeks to assess potential risks and if alternatives are necessary. At an international event in London, the industry gathered to explore the situation.

Two European Parliament committees oppose taxonomy plans
16 June, 2022
Lawmakers in the European Parliament have formed a cross-party coalition, which aims to block nuclear energy and fossil gas from receiving a green investment label under the EU’s green finance taxonomy. The coalition has objected to a European Commission proposal, tabled at the end of 2021, to include fossil gas and nuclear power in the EU’s list of green investments as “transitional” sources of energy. The European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee members, at a joint meeting on 14 June, voted by 76 to 62, with four abstentions and six who did not vote, to oppose the EU taxonomy plans.

Iran begins removal of IAEA monitoring systems
13 June, 2022
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told a press conference that Iran had informed the Agency of its intention to remove 27 cameras as well as an online monitoring system and a flowmeter from its nuclear facilities.

IAEA continues to press for access to Zaporizhzhia NPP
07 June, 2022
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said on 3 June he is continuing his efforts to organise an IAEA mission to Ukraine’s largest NPP, Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia, to carry out important nuclear safety, security and safeguards activities at this site. With respect to safeguards, transmission of remote safeguards data to IAEA headquarters from the Zaporizhzhia NPP stopped on 30 May, the Agency said. However, with the assistance of the plant operator, the IAEA is continuing technical attempts to re-establish the data transmission

Future of Zaporizhzhia NPP remains unclear
23 May, 2022
Recent statements by Russian officials seem to imply that Russia’s occupation of the Zaporizhzhia NPP in southern Ukraine may be permanent.

EDF warns of more delays and cost increases for Hinkley Point C
10 May, 2022
Electricite de France (EDF) says its Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear plant in the UK risks being late and over-budget as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and supply chain disruption weigh on progress at the site, Bloomberg reported on 7 May. The risk of delays has increased since the company’s update in January 2021 because of the combination of the pandemic, the UK’s exit from the European Union, lower civil productivity, the Ukrainian conflict and supply chain disruption, EDF said in a presentation.

Hungary receives Russian nuclear fuel by air
11 April, 2022
Hungary received the first shipment of nuclear fuel for the Paks nuclear power plant from by air from Russia on 6 April, after the war in Ukraine made rail transport impossible, according to Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.

IAEA and EU discuss strategic security and other issues
17 March, 2022
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on 15 March that senior officials of the IAEA and the European Union (EU) had held discussed a number of strategic issues during the eighth EU-IAEA Senior Officials Meeting in Vienna.

EC confirms nuclear and gas as part of European taxonomy
03 February, 2022
The European Commission (EC) approved in principle a Complementary Climate Delegated Act including, under strict conditions, specific nuclear and gas energy activities in the list of economic activities covered by the European Union (EU) taxonomy.