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IAEA sees operational safety commitment at Penly
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
