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UPGRADES BWX TECHNOLOGIES HAS announced a CAD$73 million ($57.7m) contract awarded to support Bruce Power’s Major Component Replacement Project. The contract for Lead-In and Lead-Out activities will be executed by BWXT Canada Ltd and its joint venture teammate, ES Fox Limited.
ROMANIAN NUCLEAR UTILITY Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica said shareholders had approved investment to refurbish Cernavoda 1. The refurbishment work will take place in three phases, with execution between 2027 and 2029.
JAPAN ATOMIC POWER Company said it does not expect to complete required safety upgrades at Tokai 2 in Ibaraki prefecture until September 2024. Construction work on safety countermeasures was scheduled to be completed in March 2021 but is taking longer than expected.
THE IAEA SAID that it had reached a critical milestone in completing the final phase of the modernisation of its nuclear applications laboratories, known as ReNuAL2. The USA, Australia, Kuwait, Mexico, Nigeria, Qatar, Slovakia and Slovenia contributed €6.7 million to the project.
EQUIPMENT INDIA’S BHARAT HEAVY Electricals Limited has dispatched its 42nd nuclear steam generator to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. The steam generator is for a 700MWe unit under construction at Rajasthan Atomic Power Project.
DESKTOP METAL, WHICH specialises in additive manufacturing technologies, announced that Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, a developer of Micro Modular Reactor systems, had adopted two 3D printers from its recently updated X-Series line of binder jetting systems, with two additional machines to follow.
BWX TECHNOLOGIES HAS been contracted by the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Programme for manufacture of naval nuclear reactor components totalling approximately $1 billion.
COMPANY NEWS FRANCE’S ORANO AT the end of 2021 and beginning of 2022 has won a series of contracts from EDF and France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission representing a significant volume of business worth nearly €40 million ($44m).
a tender for new unit at Dukovany
ČEZ launches
Above: Elektrárna Dukovany II, launched a tender for the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Dukovany on 17 March Photo credit: ČEZ
Elektrárna Dukovany II (EDU II), a wholly owned subsidiary of Czech power company ČEZ, has launched a tender for construction of a new unit at the Dukovany nuclear power plant. The Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade
approved the tender after assessing the safety requirements in the tender and completing a safety assessment of the three bidders. The bidders are US-based Westinghouse,
Électricité de France (EDF), and Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP). China General Nuclear (CGN) and Rosatom had previously been excluded for political reasons. Initial bids are due by the end of November
and final bids 20 months later. After evaluation by ČEZ and state approval contracts will be finalised in 2024. “The main objective is a safe and economical
project completed within the stipulated budget and time. For the tender itself, the goal is of course to select the best contractor and to have a quality and beneficial contract. After its signing, the project documentation will be thoroughly prepared in order to minimise the problems surrounding some foreign projects. I believe that the 2036 start date for test
Pakistan Grid connection for Karachi 3 Unit 3 of the Karachi nuclear power plant in Pakistan was successfully connected to the grid on 4 March, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced. Karachi 3 is the second 1100MWe Hualong
One PWR to be constructed outside China. Karachi 2 entered commercial operation in May 2021. Both units were contracted to CNNC’s
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operation of the new unit is achievable,” said Daniel Beneš, ČEZ Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO. After the Ministry of the Environment issued a positive opinion on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in 2019, EDU II it received a Location Permit from the State Office for Nuclear Safety last year and a Generating Facility Authorisation from the Ministry of Industry and Trade. EDU II began planning procedures when it applied to the Construction Authority for permits on 1 June 2021. The Czech Republic operates six commercial
nuclear power units – four Soviet-built VVER-440s at Dukovany and two Russian VVER-1000s at Temelin, which together provided about 35% of total electricity production. The Dukovany units, which were commissioned in 1985-1987, will be decommissioned no later than 2045-2047. ČEZ said the Dukovany nuclear power plant
has become a driving force in the region and an opinion poll conducted by IBRS at the end of last year showed, 65% of respondents favoured further nuclear investment (up from 62% the previous year). ■
China Zhongyuan Engineering Corporation (CZEC). “Each Hualong One unit is expected to
generate approximately 10TWh of electricity per year after completion, meeting the annual demand of electricity of more than 4 million households in Pakistan,” CNNC said. Five nuclear reactors currently account for
around 8% of Pakistan’s energy mix: four CNNC- supplied CNP-300 PWRs at Chashma in U
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