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OPG chooses BWRX-300 SMR for Darlington new build

OPG chooses BWRX-300 SMR for Darlington new build

Ontario Power Generation has selected the BWRX-300 small modular reactor for the Darlington new nuclear site, and will work with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy to deploy the reactor. Canada's first commercial, grid-scale, SMR could be completed as early as 2028.

New Nuclear 02 December 2021

First contract signed for Cernavoda completion

First contract signed for Cernavoda completion

A year-long, CAD8.4 million (USD6.6 million) contract will see Canada's Candu Energy prepare the licensing basis for two new Candu pressurised heavy water reactors at Romania's Cernavoda nuclear power plant. The signing was celebrated by the governments of Romania and Canada, as well as the USA.

New Nuclear 26 November 2021

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Canadian SMR to offer 'once in a generation' economic windfall - study

Contract for Romanian lead-cooled reactor research facility

Dual criticality for Chinese demonstration HTR-PM 

Fast-spectrum salt reactor to be built at INL

First contract signed for Cernavoda completion

Major lift completed at second Hinkley Point C unit

NuScale SMR planned for Romania

Rolls-Royce secures funding for SMR deployment

Westinghouse signs initial contract for Ukrainian AP1000s

Major components set in place at Rooppur

Major components set in place at Rooppur

All four of Rooppur 1's steam generators have been lifted into position, Russia's Rosatom has announced. Separately, Rosatom's export subsidiary Atomstroyexport is working with the Bangladesh Ministry of Health on a vaccination programme to protect workers at Rooppur from COVID-19. Bangladesh's first nuclear power reactor is slated to start up in 2023.

New Nuclear 24 November 2021

Puerto Rico study and advanced reactors receive US funding

Puerto Rico study and advanced reactors receive US funding

The US Department of Energy has awarded funding to the Nuclear Alternative Project to study the potential siting of small reactors in Puerto Rico. Funding also goes to address hurdles to the use of small reactors in commercial shipping and to support the development of advanced reactor designs. 

New Nuclear 24 November 2021

Components headed to Akkuyu

Components headed to Akkuyu

Russian manufacturers are dispatching several components to Turkey's first nuclear power plant, Akkuyu, which is currently the largest nuclear construction site in the world with 13,000 people working on a daily basis on the site that will house four large reactors.

New Nuclear 23 November 2021

Contract for Romanian lead-cooled reactor research facility

Contract for Romanian lead-cooled reactor research facility

A consortium including Italy's Ansaldo Nucleare and Romania's Reinvent Energy has been awarded a contract worth about EUR20.0 million (USD22.5 million) for the design, procurement, installation and commissioning of a research facility for the development of lead-cooled reactors. The Advanced Thermo-Hydraulics Experiment for Nuclear Application facility will be built at the RATEN-ICN research centre near Pitesti in southern Romania.

New Nuclear 23 November 2021

Westinghouse signs initial contract for Ukrainian AP1000s

Westinghouse signs initial contract for Ukrainian AP1000s

A contract signed by the Ukrainian nuclear operator Energoatom and US vendor Westinghouse will trigger the engineering and procurement of components for the first of several AP1000s planned for Ukraine. The country is planning as much as 11 GWe of new build by 2040.

New Nuclear 22 November 2021

NASA seeks proposals for lunar reactor

NASA seeks proposals for lunar reactor

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration is seeking proposals from nuclear and space industry leaders to develop innovative technologies for a fission surface power system for lunar power applications. It hopes to deploy such a system by 2030.

New Nuclear 22 November 2021

Fast-spectrum salt reactor to be built at INL

Fast-spectrum salt reactor to be built at INL

Southern Company and the US Department of Energy have signed an agreement to design, construct and operate the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment - a proof-of-concept critical fast-spectrum salt reactor. Southern will lead a collaborative effort to build the MCRE - which it says will be the world's first fast-spectrum salt reactor to achieve criticality - at Idaho National Laboratory.

New Nuclear 19 November 2021

NuScale teams up with Prodigy and Kinectrics for MPS deployment

NuScale teams up with Prodigy and Kinectrics for MPS deployment

NuScale Power, Prodigy Clean Energy and Kinectrics have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore and inform the development of a regulatory framework to address licensing and deployment of a Prodigy Marine Power Station. The MPS would integrate up to 12 NuScale Power Modules into a marine-based nuclear power plant system.

New Nuclear 18 November 2021