The deployment of Rolls-Royce SMR's small modular reactors (SMRs) has been boosted by a new agreement that will enable use of the design in the Netherlands.
Rolls-Royce SMR has signed an exclusive agreement with Dutch development company ULC-Energy to work together to deploy SMR power stations in the country. Rolls-Royce SMR…
Anti-Sizewell C campaigners have warned that confirming funding for the power station is a "dodgy decision" after reports that prime minister Boris Johnson has agreed to part-fund the project.
Planning permission for Sizewell C was granted in July but details on the government's final investment decision are yet to be announced.…
EDF has set out its plans for providing the water needed for the Sizewell C project, after the nuclear power plant was given the green light despite concerns raised by the Planning Inspectorate about the water supply strategy.
Since the development consent order (DCO) was granted last month, further questions have…
Campaigners opposing Sizewell C have launched a legal challenge against the government's decision to give the nuclear power station the green light.
Campaign group Together Against Sizewell C (TASC) has written to energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng to legally challenge his decision to approve the project against the advice of the planning…
A range of future energy options for the UK remain on the table following the shutdown of Hinkley Point B in Somerset earlier this week.
The nuclear power plant was the UK's first Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor and, following a nine year construction period, has been operational since 1976. Over the last…
Senior international energy figures have expressed concerns that a nuclear accident could occur at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Rafael Grossi said that the Zaporizhzhia plant in the south-eastern city of Enerhodar “is completely out of control”, in an interview with Associated…
It’s great news that engineering giant Rolls-Royce has now shortlisted six possible locations for its first factory relating to small nuclear power stations. This is the first of three offsite assembly factories building key elements of the next generation small modular reactor power stations (SMRs). Construction will begin once Rolls-Royce…
Hinkley Point C is getting ready for another engineering feat with the precision placement of 5,000t cooling-water intakes on the seabed.
Each intake head will be connected to 8km of tunnels used to circulate cooling-water for the new power station. The first heads have been loaded onto barges at Bristol Port’s…
EDF's frustration at the lack of government funding commitments for the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power plant could be relieved soon, with reports that funding for the project could be approved within the next two weeks.
Last week, unions claimed that EDF might pull out of the project as it awaited…
New footage released by EDF shows how work at Hinkley Point C has progressed over the last six months, with the project moving into new phases of construction.
Work has accelerated following the subsiding of the pandemic, with around 8,000 people now working on site and delivery director Nigel Cann emphasised…
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