Romania expects to make a preliminary final investment decision next year on whether to build a small modular reactor plant (SMR), which could become Europe’s first project using the technology, Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja said on Monday.
read more... 19/03/2024
Poland's power grid operator PSE plans to spend 64 billion zloty ($16 billion) by 2034 to build new high-voltage power lines and connect planned renewable and nuclear capacity, as part of the country's drive to wean itself off coal.
read more... 18/03/2024
A new funding programme for nuclear fusion research has been announced by Germany's Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger aimed at paving the way for the first fusion power plant to be constructed in Germany by 2040.
read more... 15/03/2024
France will continue its treatment-recycling strategy for used nuclear fuel beyond 2040, with plans to extend the life of existing recycling plants and to launch studies for a new mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication plant and a new used fuel processing plant, the Minister for the Economy, Finance, Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, Bruno Le Maire, announced on Friday.
read more... 12/03/2024
Delaying the start of fuel loading, which requires French nuclear safety authority ASN authorisation, would almost certainly lead to a delay in starting the 1.6 GW reactor, which is due to go into commercial service by June.
read more... 11/03/2024