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A good year for Loviisa NPP
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
EDF Energy has reported that its eight UK nuclear power stations produced their highest output for seven years in 2012.
