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SAFETY AND SECURITY KOREA HYDRO & Nuclear Power (KHNP) hosted an International Atomic Energy Agency Operational Safety Review Team (OSART) at units 1&2 of its Saeul NPP (formerly Shin-Kori units 3&4). The 13 experts from 11 countries inspected 10 areas including leadership, operation, maintenance, emergency response, and accident management in accordance with the international nuclear safety standards that were strengthened after the 2011 Fukushima accident.
NUCLEAR FUEL NUCLEAR FUEL FOR the Akkuyu NPP under construction in Turkiye are on track for 2023 delivery.Anastasia Zoteeva, the general director of the project company, Akkuyu Nukleer said fresh fuel will be delivered for the first unit in May 2023.
FUEL COMPANY TVEL (part of Rosatom) has signed contract documents with the Egypt Atomic Energy Organisation for the supply of low enriched nuclear fuel components for Egypt’s ETRR-2 research reactor. The contract is part of a long-term contract for the export to Egypt of nuclear fuel components for the reactor.
RUSSIA IS OFFERING new technologies to improve the efficiency of the nuclear fuel cycle at India’s Kudankulam NPP. The new solutions include increased uranium enrichment, extended fuel cycles and accident tolerant fuel assemblies.
THE US DEPARTMENT of Energy announced an approximately $150m cost-shared award with American Centrifuge Operating of Bethesda, Maryland, a subsidiary of Centrus Energy Corp, to demonstrate the USA’s ability to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU), which is not currently available at commercial scale from US suppliers.
V Jennifer M Granholm. “Nuclear energy will help us meet President Biden’s climate goals, and with these historic investments in clean energy, we can protect these facilities and the communities they serve.” Nuclear power currently provides 50% of
US carbon-free electricity but shifting energy markets and other economic factors have already resulted in the early closures of 13 commercial reactors since 2013. These closures have led to an increase in carbon emissions in those regions, poorer air quality for residents living in the surrounding areas, and the loss of thousands of high-paying jobs. Units 1 and 2 at the Diablo Canyon Power
Plant were scheduled to be decommissioned in 2024 and 2025, but the conditional award of credits, valued at up to $1.1bn, will allow the plant to remain open. Final terms are subject to negotiation and finalisation by DOE. Diablo Canyon, owned and operated by Pacific Gas and Electric Company, produces approximately 16 GWh of electricity annually, about 15% of the state’s clean energy. The first CNC award cycle prioritised
reactors facing the most imminent threat of closure, limiting applications to reactors that had already announced intentions to cease operations due to economic factors. The second CNC award cycle will prioritise reactors that are projected to shut down due to economic factors within the next four years. DOE is expected to begin accepting applications for the second cycle of CNC funding in January 2023. However, a proposal to restart the Palisades
NPP along Lake Michigan depended on federal government approval, which has been denied. The plant closed in May and Holtec International bought the plant in June, with the goal of decommissioning it by 2041. Nonetheless, Holtec had applied for the CNC programme, hoping to restart the plant but this proposal was rejected on 18 November.. The 800 MWe PWR started operations
in 1971. Some 170 employees transferred to other Entergy facilities when it closed, while 90 retired, and about 225 stayed for decommissioning.
Egypt First concrete poured El-Dabaa 2 First concrete has been poured for the foundation slab of unit 2 of Egypt’s El Dabaa NPP. The plant will comprise four units with generation III+ VVER-1200 pressurised water reactors. The NPP is being constructed in accordance with contracts that entered into force in December 2017 based on an inter- governmental agreement signed by Egypt and Russia in 2015. Russia will arrange for the training of the Egyptian personnel and assist in the operation and maintenance of the plant for the fi rst 10 years. The $30bn project is mainly fi nanced through a $25bn Russian loan. NPPA Chairman Amged El-Wakil said: “The
start of the main stage of construction of power units 1&2 this year is a large-scale achievement of the NPP construction project, which demonstrates the level of support for the project from the leadership of our two countries. I am also inspired by Egypt’s success in establishing itself as a regional leader in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and this, I am sure, will serve the benefit of the regions of the Middle East and North Africa.”
Netherlands Preparatory work begins for Pallas Preparatory works have started on the construction of the Pallas Research Reactor which will be built at Petten. It will replace the existing 45 MWt High Flux Reactor (HFR) that began operation in September 1960. Since then, its use has shifted from nuclear material testing to basic research and the production of medical radioisotopes. HFR, operated by NRG on behalf of the European Union’s Joint Research Centre, has provided about 60% of European and 30% of the world’s use of medical radioactive sources. The new 55 MWt tank-in-pool type Pallas reactor will be able to deploy the neutron fl ux more effi ciently than the HFR. Work is currently underway to make the
original access road to the Energy & Health Campus from the 1960s accessible. During the construction of the steel sheet pile structure around the work site, the contractor KWS U
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