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Unit 1 of the Takahama
#nuclear
power plant in Japan's Fukui Prefecture has been restarted after being taken offline more than 12 years ago
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The British government has launched a roadmap for reaching its ambition for the UK to have 24 GWe of
#nuclear
generating capacity by 2050, representing about 25% of the country's projected electricity demand
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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has called for up to nine of the ten reactors that have already been restarted to be in operation over the winter to avoid electricity shortages
#nuclear
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Japan's Cabinet has approved a policy to allow new
#nuclear
power reactors to be constructed and the operation of existing reactors to be extended from 40 to 60 years
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The Netherlands' new coalition government has placed
#nuclear
power at the heart of its climate and energy policy
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309
Unit 1 of the Shin Hanul
#nuclear
power plant in South Korea was connected to the electricity grid for the first time on 9 June, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power announced
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Slovenia will close its coal-fired power plants in 2033, the country's government has decided. New
#nuclear
build to enable this is planned at the Krško plant before 2030
3
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Germany's phase-out of
#nuclear
energy will only lead to the country missing its 2030 carbon emissions target, 25 leading foreign and German environmentalists, journalists and academics have written in an open letter to the German public
6
69
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The first of four 80-metre-high cooling towers has been demolished at the Biblis
#nuclear
power plant in Germany
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The USA's first newly constructed nuclear power plant in more than 30 years - Vogtle 3 - reached first criticality in March, was connected to the electricity grid in April and is now officially generating electricity for customers, Georgia Power announced.
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The
#nuclear
industry must act to end the decades-long demonisation of the most environmentally friendly form of energy and the world's only viable hope against climate change and poverty, Michael Shellenberger of Environmental Progress said last week
5
80
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If existing inventories of used
#nuclear
fuel were recycled and repurposed as fuel for advanced fast reactors, it could generate zero-carbon electricity for Europe for up to 1000 years, according to international environmental campaign group
@letsreplanet
5
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The proposed inclusion of certain
#nuclear
and gas activities within the European Union's list of officially approved "green" investments is set to become law after an attempt to block it fails in the European Parliament
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Westinghouse has launched what it calls a "game-changer" AP300 small modular reactor, a scaled-down version of its AP1000 reactor, with a goal for the first one to deliver power to the grid within a decade.
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181
The Japanese government has adopted a plan to extend the operation of existing
#nuclear
power reactors and replace aging facilities with new advanced ones
4
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184
Finland's fifth nuclear reactor, Olkiluoto 3 (OL3), has reached first criticality. The EPR (European Pressurised Water Reactor) is the first new nuclear unit to be commissioned in Finland in over 40 years.
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France's
@EDFofficiel
has made an offer to the Polish government to build as many as six EPR units
#nuclear
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Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted by 112 to 45, with 39 abstentions, in favour of a draft decision asking ministers to negotiate with the US government for a new AP1000 unit at Kozloduy
#nuclear
power plant
8
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The installation of the steel structures of the outer containment dome has been completed in record time at unit 2 of the Rooppur
#nuclear
power plant in Bangladesh
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169
The Belgian government has asked energy company
@EngieBelgium
to see if it can extend the operating life of Tihange unit 2 until the end of the winter peak electricity season
#nuclear
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#Nuclear
energy must be included in the framework of the European taxonomy before the end of this year, energy and economy ministers from ten EU member states said in a joint article published in several European newspapers yesterday
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The Canadian government has approved CAD74 million (USD55 million) of federal funding for small modular reactor development in Saskatchewan
#nuclear
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The Japanese government has adopted a plan to extend the operation of existing
#nuclear
power reactors and replace aging facilities with new advanced ones
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161
The Czech government has decided to change its tender for new
#nuclear
to binding offers for up to four, rather than one, reactors - and said that it is inviting bids from France's
@EDFofficiel
and South Korea's
@ilovekhnp_eng
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@NuScale_Power
has announced it is making a strategic shift from product development to product delivery as commercialisation of its VOYGR small modular reactor power plants approaches
#nuclear
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Bill Gates has written in his year-end blog that
#nuclear
power is "ideal for dealing with climate change". The technologist, business leader, and philanthropist wrote about nuclear power in his 29 December article 'What I learned at work this year'
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The process of loading
#nuclear
fuel assemblies into the core of the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor in France has been completed ahead of its start-up. The 1650 MWe (gross) pressurised water reactor is expected to reach 100% output before the end of the year
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A group of 46 non-governmental organisations from 18 countries has written to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, calling for the inclusion of
#nuclear
energy in the EU taxonomy for sustainable investments
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150
A LEGO fan has designed a model of a
#nuclear
power plant and put it forward as a candidate for possible production by the
@LEGO_Group
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Barakah unit 1 has reached 100% power and is now generating 1400 MW of electricity, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has announced today.
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The power output of unit 3 at the Mochovce
#nuclear
power plant in Slovakia has been increased from 75% to 90% as energy start-up tests continue,
@Elektrarne
announced
1
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143
The UK has launched a consultation on proposed regulations for
#nuclear
-powered ships that would enable UK-flagged vessels to use the power source and international vessels to visit its ports
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Twenty two countries have signed up to the goal of tripling global nuclear energy capacity by 2050, at the UN's COP28 climate change conference.
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Poland's Ministry of Climate and Environment has issued a decision-in-principle for the country's second large
#nuclear
power plant. Two South Korean-supplied APR1400 reactors are planned in the Patnów-Konin region:
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The USA and Poland have set out a detailed bilateral roadmap for the construction of six large nuclear reactors using US technology and a framework for strategic cooperation civil
#nuclear
energy
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The world’s first modular high temperature gas-cooled reactor
#nuclear
power plant - the HTR-PM - has entered commercial operation, China’s National Energy Administration has announced
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Rolls-Royce SMR of the UK has signed an MoU with Škoda JS to explore areas of collaboration for the Rolls-Royce small modular reactor plant, for deployment both in the Czech Republic and broader central European regions
#nuclear
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Slovenia will close its coal-fired power plants in 2033, the country's government has decided. New
#nuclear
build to enable this is planned at the Krško plant before 2030
0
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A majority of the German public are in favour of the continued operation of the country's three remaining
#nuclear
power reactors beyond the end of this year, the results of two opinion polls show
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Japan's nuclear regulator has approved the operation of units 3 and 4 at Kansai Electric Power Company's Ohi
#nuclear
power plant up to 40 years under new legislation
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Swedish government unveils a roadmap which envisages the construction of new
#nuclear
generating capacity equivalent to at least two large-scale reactors by 2035, with up to ten new large-scale reactors coming online by 2045
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The Vogtle 4 AP1000 reactor is now generating electricity and was connected to the grid for the first time on 1 March,
@GeorgiaPower
has announced
#nuclear
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Nearly 100 Members of the European Parliament have called on the European Commission "to follow the science" and include
#nuclear
under the EU's Sustainable Finance Taxonomy
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France and Sweden have signed a declaration of intent to develop long-term cooperation in the field of nuclear energy.
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A LEGO fan has designed a model of a
#nuclear
power plant and put it forward as a candidate for possible production by the
@LEGO_Group
5
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The Swedish Energy Agency has awarded Swedish Modular Reactors AB funding of just over SEK99 million (USD10.6 million) in support of the construction of a demonstration LeadCold SEALER lead-cooled small modular reactor at the Oskarshamn plant site
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The Belgian
#Nuclear
Society welcomed the political decision to keep two reactors in operation beyond 2025 because of security of electricity supply concerns. However, it questions why the operation of the units has been limited to just ten years
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Vogtle 3 reaches first criticality - Georgia Power has announced that the AP1000 - the first new nuclear unit to be built in the USA in more than three decades - has safely reached initial criticality.
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France will construct six new
#nuclear
power reactors, consider building a further eight and push ahead with the development of small modular reactors, President Emmanuel Macron has said
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#Nuclear
energy must be included in a delegated act of the European taxonomy, 18 trade unions in the energy sector from 10 European Union countries have told Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission
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Ministers from Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland met in Paks and agreed: "Without
#nuclear
power it will not be possible to achieve the goals of climate neutrality"
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Swedish small modular reactor project development company
@karnfull_en
has formed a strategic partnership with Finnish SMR developer Steady Energy to introduce SMRs for district heating in Sweden
#nuclear
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An open letter to the prime minister of Belgium, Alexander De Croo, has called for the country's anti-nuclear policies to be re-evaluated and for Belgium's
#nuclear
facilities and skills to be positively applied in an effort to avert climate change
1
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Dutch
#nuclear
energy development company ULC-Energy BV has signed an MoU with US utility
@ConstellationEG
to support the deployment of a fleet of Rolls-Royce small modular reactors in the Netherlands
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Unit 1 of the Takahama
#nuclear
power plant in Japan's Fukui Prefecture has been restarted after being taken offline more than 12 years ago
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Unit 2 of the Shin Hanul
#nuclear
power plant in South Korea has attained a sustained chain reaction for the first time, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power announced
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China General Nuclear has successfully completed the hoisting of the 225-tonne dome into place on the second unit at Taipingling
#nuclear
power plant, in Huizhou in south China's Guangdong province
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Small modular reactor developer
@NuScale_Power
has applied to to US
#nuclear
regulators for approval of its updated design. It has also signed a contract with Romania's RoPower Nuclear SA for FEED work toward deployment of a VOYGR-6 SMR plant at Doicești
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The Cabinet of Ministers in Ukraine has given the go-ahead to begin work on project documentation for the construction of two
@WECNuclear
AP1000 reactors at the Khmelnitsky
#nuclear
power plant
0
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Sweden's parliament has approved a bill that will clear the way for new nuclear power in the country by removing the current limit on the number of nuclear reactors in operation, as well as allowing reactors to be built on new sites.
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The US Senate's voted 96-3 for legislation intended to strengthen domestic nuclear fuel production and ensure disruptions in uranium supply will not impact the development of advance reactors or the operation of the USA's existing power reactor fleet:
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Italian utility
@EdisonNews
has announced its ambition to construct two
#nuclear
power plants based on
@EDFofficiel
's SMR technology between 2030 and 2040, if the conditions are created for the return of nuclear energy to Italy
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Argentina is preparing to refurbish Atucha I, the first
#nuclear
power reactor in South America, so that it may generate power for a further 20 years
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The governor of Japan's Shimane prefecture has approved the restart of unit 2 at Chugoku Electric Power Company's Shimane
#nuclear
power plant
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The
@usairforce
has confirmed the Eielson base in Alaska as the facility planned to host its first small
#nuclear
power plant
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.
@ForgemastersHQ
has completed weld-assembly of a full-sized SMR
#nuclear
vessel demonstrator assembly using Local Electron-Beam Welding. It said the technique took less than 24 hours to complete the welds, typically requiring a year of work
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Swedish Energy & Industry Minister Ebba Busch has announced the appointment of Carl Berglöf as national
#nuclear
power coordinator as the country embarks on a programme to expand its nuclear generating capacity
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The first of the two high-temperature gas-cooled reactors of the demonstration HTR-PM plant at Shidaowan, in China's Shandong province, attained a sustained chain reaction for the first time yesterday
#nuclear
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The Czech Republic has plans for small modular reactors, with a number of different firms in talks over options, including the UK's Rolls-Royce SMR, which this week visited the country for discussions:
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An open letter to the prime minister of Belgium, Alexander De Croo, has called for the country's anti-nuclear policies to be re-evaluated and for Belgium's
#nuclear
facilities and skills to be positively applied in an effort to avert climate change
1
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110
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has approved the operation of units 3 and 4 at Kansai Electric Power Company's Takahama
#nuclear
power plant in Fukui prefecture for a further 20 years
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The governor of Japan's Shimane prefecture has approved the restart of unit 2 at Chugoku Electric Power Company's Shimane
#nuclear
power plant
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US President Joe Biden has signed the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced
#Nuclear
for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act into law
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The Canadian government's inclusion of small modular reactors in clean energy technologies eligible for a new investment tax credit has been greeted as a clear signal it considers
#nuclear
power "clean energy" on a par with other low-carbon technologies:
5
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112
@NuScale_Power
has completed its merger with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp to create the world's first and only publicly traded small modular reactor technology provider
#nuclear
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India's installed
#nuclear
capacity is set to more than triple by 2031, and nuclear power plants are likely to generate about 9% of the country's electricity by 2047, according to Minister of State Jitendra Singh
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109
Polish climate and environmental activists are asking Germany to reconsider its 2011 decision to phase out
#nuclear
power
4
27
109
French construction company
@eiffage
has been awarded a contract worth more than EUR4 billion (USD4.4 billion) by
@EDFofficiel
for civil engineering works on the first two EPR2 reactors planned at the Penly site in Normandy, northern France
#nuclear
1
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The world’s first modular high temperature gas-cooled reactor
#nuclear
power plant - the HTR-PM - has entered commercial operation, China’s National Energy Administration has announced
4
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112
Estonia's
@fermienergia
has said it will accept tenders from three small modular reactor developers:
@gehnuclear
,
@NuScale_Power
and
@RollsRoyce
#nuclear
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109
Survey shows that 78% of people surveyed in Sweden - up from 71% in 2017 - strongly support
#nuclearenergy
, 43% are open to the construction of new
#nuclearpower
plants, & 35% would like to continue using the country's reactors for full operating lives:
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Energy ministers from 11 EU member states have called for a strengthening of European cooperation in the field of
#nuclear
energy
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The world's only
#nuclear
powered cargo ship yesterday set sail from the Russian port of St Petersburg laden with a cargo of components destined for the Rooppur nuclear power plant under construction in Bangladesh
0
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109
Swedish power company OKG AB has signed its first contract to supply hydrogen produced at its Oskarshamn
#nuclear
power plant
1
22
107
South Korea's HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering plans to develop a small modular reactor for use in shipping in cooperation with the UK's
@COREPOWER10
and the USA's
@SouthernCompany
and
@TerraPower
#nuclear
4
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108
The British government has launched a roadmap for reaching its ambition for the UK to have 24 GWe of
#nuclear
generating capacity by 2050, representing about 25% of the country's projected electricity demand
2
37
108
Ontario Power Generation has submitted an application for a Licence to Construct a small modular reactor at the Darlington site, where it plans to build Canada's first commercial, grid-scale SMR.
1
28
102
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority today formally accepted a report concluding unit 2 of Chugoku Electric Power Company's Shimane
#nuclear
power plant meets the country's new safety standards
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103
Barakah unit 3 is now supplying its first electricity to the UAE's grid. The country's first
#nuclear
power plant is a key component of the UAE's Net Zero 2050 Strategy.
1
27
103
The decision by the California legislature to pass a bill that will enable the state's only remaining
#nuclear
power plant to continue operation until 2030 has been greeted as the right choice for the state
2
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105
.
@WECNuclear
has signed an agreement with Community
#Nuclear
Power Ltd for the construction of four AP300 small modular reactors in the North Teesside region of northeast England. It would be the UK's first privately-financed SMR fleet
2
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France will construct six new
#nuclear
power reactors, consider building a further eight and push ahead with the development of small modular reactors, President Emmanuel Macron has said
0
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103
The owners of Sweden's Forsmark and Ringhals
#nuclear
power plants are to assess the possibility of extending the operating lifetime of the plants' reactors from 60 to 80 years. This would enable their continued operation into the 2060s
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Governor JB Pritzker has said he will sign a new bill lifting Illinois' ban on the construction of new
#nuclear
reactors, after the state's lawmakers passed new legislation that will allow the construction of reactors up to 300 MWe capacity from 2026
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