Since beginning as a munitions manufacturing site Birchwood Park has evolved to become a nuclear technology hub (All images in this story are courtesy of Birchwood Park) The nuclear industry boasts a ...

Aerial view of the ITER construction site (Image credit: ITER) The 37 th meeting of the ITER Council has reported significant progress. ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi reported that ITER is ...

Flamanville Nuclear Plant with Reactor 3 (EPR) in foreground (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) The third French Multiannual Energy Plan (PPE – Programmation Pluriannuelle de l’Énergie) covering the period ...

Cyclife Germany GmbH has successfully finalised the acquisition of Kraftanlagen Heidelberg GmbH and its associated specialised units. Cyclife is an international nuclear decommissioning subsidiary ...

Massachusetts -based nuclear technology startup Alva Energy has emerged from stealth with $33m in Series A funding. Unlike many other startups in the sector, Alva does not plan to build new reactors.

Argentina’s nuclear utility, Nucleoeléctrica Argentina SA (NA-SA) has said testing is underway at the Spent Fuel Dry Storage Project (ASECG II – Almacenamiento en Seco de Elementos Combustibles ...

Japan’s Chubu Electric Power Co has admitted to intentionally falsifying 14 construction and expense reports. The fraudulent claims concern the ongoing decommissioning of units 1&2 reactors at its ...

Urenco’s Capenhurst site will be the site of Europe’s first commercial advanced nuclear fuels facility In January this year the UK government announced a £300m (US$393m) funding programme to develop a ...

In March this year EDF announced plans to extend the operating life of the Heysham 1 and Hartlepool nuclear power stations According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), more than ...

Unit 3 at the Mochovce nuclear power plant is now operating while unit 4 is currently being commissioned (Source: Skoda JS) The Slovak Republic has made significant progress in reaching its climate ...

EDF and the UK Government have signed the Heads of Terms for a Contract for Difference (CfD) agreement to extend the operating life of the Sizewell B NPP in Suffolk, which was scheduled to close in ...

The proposed deployment of X-energy’s Xe-100 plant in the UK could benefit from its US unit planned with Dow Inc. at a manufacturing site in Texas (Source: Centrica) A raft of deals to develop new ...