Power output from the 1600 MWe Olkiluoto 3 EPR in Finland has reached 100% as commissioning tests of the reactor continue, operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) has announced. Regular electricity...
Romania / Nuclearelectrica And Nova Power Form Joint Company For SMR Deployment
Romanian state-owned nuclear company Nuclearelectrica and private Romanian firm Nova Power & Gas SRL have established a project company called Ropower Nuclear to develop small modular reactors...
France / Government Drafting Legislation To Prepare For First EPR2 Nuclear Plant
France is drafting legislation to streamline bureaucracy around nuclear power projects and aims to start construction of its first next-generation EPR2 nuclear power plant before May 2027, an energy...
Westinghouse Establishes Cooperation with Dozens of Polish Suppliers for the Construction of the First Polish Nuclear Power Plant
Westinghouse Electric Company has signed Memoranda of Understanding with 22 companies in Poland. The MoUs, signed in the presence of the U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzeziński, allow for...
EXCLUSIVE: France urges Brussels to label nuclear-produced hydrogen ‘green’
French Energy Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher is trying to get EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson to include nuclear among energy sources for the production of so-called “green” hydrogen, according...
Constellation to help Dutch Rolls-Royce SMR deployment
Dutch nuclear energy development company ULC-Energy BV has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US utility Constellation to support the deployment of a fleet of Rolls-Royce small modular...
Fermi Energia requests bids from three SMR vendors
Estonia's Fermi Energia has said it will accept tenders from three small modular reactor (SMR) developers: GE Hitachi, NuScale and Rolls-Royce. The company said bids with comprehensive technical...
French deputy: ‘We have been suffering from the German electricity strategy for years’
EURACTIV France spoke to right-wing deputy Raphaël Schellenberger about his vision of “European energy solidarity”, which he conditions on the sovereignty of states to decide their own energy mix...