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Oct 11, 2024 · Homepage - World Nuclear News. More countries sign declaration to triple nuclear capacity. At the COP29 UN climate change conference taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, six more countries - El Salvador, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Nigeria and Turkey - have added their support for the tripling of global nuclear energy capacity by 2050.
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IEA forecasts continued nuclear capacity growth to 2050. Global nuclear generating capacity is expected to increase from 416 GWe in 2023 to 647 GWe in 2050 in a scenario based on existing energy policies, according to the latest World Energy Outlook from the International Energy Agency. Energy & Environment · Wednesday, 16 October 2024.
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The Chukotka becomes fifth Project 22220 nuclear icebreaker launched. The ceremonial launch of the 173-metre long Chukotka nuclear-powered icebreaker has taken place at the Baltic Shipyard. The first three of Russia's Project 22220 vessels are already operating on the Northern Sea Route. New Nuclear · Thursday, 7 November 2024.
China's demonstration HTR-PM enters commercial operation
Sep 19, 2024 · It follows a successful 168-hour demonstration run for the High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor - Pebble-bed Module (HTR-PM) in Shidao Bay (also known as Shidaowan), in Shandong Province, which is currently operating at 2×200 MWt power. The HTR-PM features two small reactors (each of 250 MWt) that drive a single 210 MWe steam turbine.
Nuclear battery: Chinese firm aiming for mass market production
Tuesday, 16 January 2024. Beijing Betavolt New Energy Technology Company Ltd claims to have developed a miniature atomic energy battery that can generate electricity stably and autonomously for 50 years without the need for charging or maintenance. It said the battery is currently in the pilot stage and will be put into mass production on the ...
Companies pool resources to manufacture TRISO fuel
May 1, 2024 · The PFM is the USA's first privately-funded producer of TRISO fuel particles. The joint venture expects to begin manufacturing TRISO particles and FCM fuel in late 2025. Its production capacity will be available to the broader commercial market, the partners said, adding that they have developed "concrete plans to support rapid expansion to ...
Chinese molten-salt reactor cleared for start up
A cutaway of the TMSR-LF1 reactor (Image: SINAP) In January 2011, CAS launched a CNY3 billion (USD444 million) R&D programme on liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs), known there as the thorium-breeding molten-salt reactor (Th-MSR or TMSR), and claimed to have the world's largest national effort on it, hoping to obtain full intellectual property rights on the technology.
Europe's first EPR reaches criticality - World Nuclear News
Sep 10, 2024 · Inside OL3, Finland's newest nuclear plant (Image: TVO) "First criticality of the OL3 EPR plant unit was reached on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 3.22 a.m.", utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) announced. Electricity production will begin when the unit is connected to the national grid, which is expected to happen at the end of January 2022.
Westinghouse unveils AP300 small modular reactor
How the AP300 might look (Image: Westinghouse) The AP300 SMR, based on the licensed and operating AP1000 pressurised light water technology, is described as an "ultra-compact, modular constructed unit that leverages the innovation and operational knowledge of the global AP1000 fleet" and will use identical AP1000 technology including "major equipment, structural components, passive safety ...
Three microreactor designs selected for US test bed experiments
Sep 19, 2024 · Three microreactor designs selected for US test bed experiments. Radiant, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation and Westinghouse have been awarded US Department of Energy funding totalling USD3.9 million for front-end engineering and experiment design of their respective microreactor designs in a new test bed facility at Idaho National Laboratory.