Two “major milestones” have been reached on the tunnelling and marine project at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset, according to Balfour Beatty project director Roger Frost.
The outfall tunnel for the nuclear power station’s cooling water system is now complete, and a trial lift for the tunnel intake…
The last time I visited Hinkley Point C was almost two years ago – in a time before Covid, before Brexit and before site visits became a distant memory.
Much has changed in the world since then but despite the chaos around, much has also progressed at Hinkley. When I hopped…
EXCLUSIVE Clean energy developer Shearwater Energy has identified “about 18 sites around the UK” that could be used as small modular reactor (SMR) power plants.
Shearwater Energy director Simon Forster told NCE it is a “dynamic situation”, adding that the existing Wylfa Newydd site on Anglesey is the current front-runner. “We’ve…
Poland’s focus on nuclear power is being bolstered by proposals for the use of small modular reactor (SMR) technology to repurpose existing coal-fired power plants.
US-based SMR developer NuScale Power has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with energy firms Getka and Unimot to explore the deployment of SMR technology as…
Two rival proposals to revive the Wylfa Newydd nuclear power plant on Anglesey have been revealed.
The alternative proposals were tabled by American engineering giant Bechtel and UK-based clean energy developer Shearwater Energy during a Welsh Affairs Committee evidence session on Wylfa yesterday. It comes after Horizon Nuclear Power officially withdrew its…
The Welsh government has recruited UK civil nuclear executive Mike Tynan to revitalise Trawsfynydd in north Wales, the site of one of Britain’s first atomic energy plants.
According to the Financial Times the site will make use of small nuclear reactors, with Tynan to join a new publicly-owned development company Cwmni Egino…
Fugro has said that it has completed a six month offshore site investigation project for Turkey’s planned Sinop peninsula nuclear power plant but the future of the project still remains in doubt.
Turkey’s state-owned nuclear power company EUAS International ICC commissioned Fugro to undertake the series of geological, geotechnical and geohazard…
The government has revealed its proposals to utilise a high temperature gas model for the prototype next-generation nuclear reactor.
In a call for evidence published yesterday (29 July), the government stated that it will look to explore high temperature gas reactors (HTGRs) as the most promising model for the new advanced…
Energy analysts have suggested that Horizon Nuclear Power – which officially withdrew its planning application for the proposed Wylfa Newydd power station in January – could step in if China General Nuclear (CGN) is forced out of other UK nuclear projects.
CGN – China’s state-owned nuclear energy company – is part…
The government has announced plans to fund the Sizewell C nuclear plant via the Regulated Asset Base (RAB) funding model.
The government announced that it will unveil legislation in the autumn to fund the £20bn plant in Suffolk. Under a RAB model funding is released based on predictions of costs and…
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