GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) is targeting 2030 for completion of its first BWRX-300 small modular reactor in Poland with the plant to be built either at the site of the Patnow coal plant about...
Hinkley nuclear power station on track for 2026 opening
The UK's newest nuclear power station is on track to open by the end of 2026, the company building it has said. Hinkley Point C in Somerset has been under construction by EDF Energy for five...
Czech support for nuclear becomes law
Support for new nuclear build at the Czech Republic's Dukovany power plant has been signed into law by President Miloš Zeman. It is designed to remove market failures that stand in the way of the...
Fatih Birol / IEA Head Says Major Reactor Construction Programme Could Be Needed To Help Meet Climate Goals
Nuclear power has an important role to play in an emerging new global clean energy economy, but analysis has shown that global reactor capacity should increase threefold by 2050 if the world’s...
‘Group Of Vienna’ / IAEA And Leading Companies Join Forces To Lobby For Nuclear Technology
The heads of the International Atomic Energy Agency and more than a dozen leading companies in the nuclear industry agreed at a meeting in Vienna on Wednesday to work together to foster the role of...
Clean Hydrogen / Why It Can Be A ‘Game Changer’ In Fight Against Climate Change
Nuclear hydrogen can be a “game changer” in the fight against climate change by decarbonising heavy industry, energy storage and even synthetic fuel production as part of a clean energy transition,...
UK / Energy Unions Join Forces To Demand ‘Long-Promised’ Funding Solution For New Nuclear
The three biggest energy unions in the UK have joined forces to demand government bring forward a long-promised funding solution for new nuclear. Prospect, Unite and GMB published a joint statement...
Poland / SMRs Could Be Part Of Country’s Long-Term Energy Planning, Says Oil Boss
Small modular reactors are not a technology “from space” and could be part of Poland’s long-term strategic energy planning, the president of state oil and petrol company PKN Orlen Daniel Obajtek...