Atomic industry

The Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency are currently conducting a Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of the UKHPR1000 reactor.

Operators at Exelon Generation's Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant removed Unit 1 from service just after midnight Sunday to begin a planned refueling outage, capping a record-setting run of 628 consecutive days of power generation.

Operators powered down Lasalle Generating Station Unit 1 early this morning to begin the nuclear power plant's spring refueling outage, but this year will be different for the hundreds of employees and outage workers tasked with refueling and performing maintenance on the plant while it's offline.

Adding white graphene to ceramics could lead to materials tough enough for use in nuclear power plants.

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has completed early payment of the full amount of the parent company guarantee obligation in respect of the construction of Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at Units 2 and 3 of the V.C.

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today rejected a proposal backed by President Donald Trump that would have provided potentially billions of dollars to coal and nuclear power plants in support "grid resiliency."

ROSATOM and King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (K.A.CARE) signed the roadmap for the implementation of the Program for the Cooperation on Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy.

Ministerial Meeting was an opportunity for the current Executive Director to reunite with predecessors

On 31 October 2017, a festive ceremony of commencement of works at the foundation pit of the main buildings of Unit 2 of Bushehr NPP (Bushehr-2 Project) took place in the province of Bushehr (Iran). 

Some 600 participants including government ministers, policy makers and experts from around the world will gather at an IAEA conference in the United Arab Emirates next week to discuss the future of nuclear power, including challenges and opportunities.

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano highlighted the IAEA’s contributions in the field of nuclear medicine at the European Association of Nuclear Medicine Annual Congress in Vienna on Saturday.

Global research on the effects of carbon dioxide (CO2) on the ocean will get a boost as the US Government announced a further $433,000 to support the IAEA Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC).

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano emphasized the IAEA’s role in strengthening global nuclear safety and security, as well as the importance of nuclear science for development at the 20th Edoardo Amaldi Conference in Rome today.

For a long time now theoretical cooperation between Russia and Brazil in the field of peaceful nuclear energy development has been under discussion.

GE Power Joins Industry Leaders to Kick-off Conversation on Power Plant Flexibility