Reactor design rss

International tie-up bolsters AP1000 supply chain

Corporate

14 May 2013

Westinghouse AP1000 48Westinghouse and China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corp have formed a joint venture to develop the global AP1000 supply chain.

ESBWR back as proposed North Anna unit

New Nuclear

26 April 2013

ESBWR 48Dominion has reverted to GE-Hitachi's Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) as the favoured technology for the proposed third unit at its North Anna plant in Virginia.

SMR funding signed, sealed and delivered

New Nuclear

16 April 2013

P Lyons at mPower (BW)_48A formal agreement with the US Department of Energy (DoE) means that Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) mPower can access the first $79 million of federal funding under a government program to accelerate commercialization of small modular reactors (SMRs). 

First selection of Atmea1 nuclear reactor

New Nuclear

03 May 2013

Atmea1_68x48Turkey stands to be the first country to use the Atmea1 reactor design by Areva and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. An accord signed today could see four of the units deployed at Sinop in the early 2020s.

Air cooling for Finnish plant

Regulation and Safety

17 April 2013

Loviisa (Fortum)_48New cooling towers will help to ensure safety at Finland's Loviisa nuclear power plant even if the seawater normally used to cool the plant were to be unavailable.

UK starts ABWR design assessment

New Nuclear

10 April 2013

ABWR (Hitachi) 80x48The generic design assessment for Hitachi-GE's Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) has officially begun with the signature of agreements by the company and UK nuclear regulators.