BELFORT, France--President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to unveil France's plans to build new nuclear reactors as part of the country's strategy to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. Macron was expected to provide a roadmap for the building of third-generation EPR reactors during a visit Thursday to the eastern town of Belfort. The move comes amid concerns about spikes in energy prices and France's dependence on global gas and oil producers. French electricity giant E

BEIJING, April 18( Xinhua)--A new nuclear power unit in Pakistan powered by the Hualong One reactor, the China-developed third-generation nuclear reactor, has started commercial operation, the China National Nuclear Corporation said Monday. The Karachi unit 3 is the fourth nuclear power unit worldwide that use the Hualong One reactor.... Karachi unit 2 and unit 3, both powered by Hualong One, will provide nearly 20 billion kWh of electricity for Pakistan, said the corporation. The construction

“ The cost of trying to dismantle the reactor and demolish the reactor core would be extremely expensive and put workers at risk.” The federal government built nine nuclear reactors at Hanford to make plutonium for atomic bombs during World War II and the Cold War.... The site along the Columbia River contains America's largest quantity of radioactive waste. The reactors are now shut down and sit like cement fortresses near the southeastern Washington city of Richland.... Work on the K-West re

2 reactors, currently under decommissioning process, and the No.... The government is seeking to make long-term use of existing nuclear plants rather than building new ones or replacing reactors, as sought by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and some business circles.... Following the 2011 Fukushima disaster, which was triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami, Japan introduced stricter safety standards limiting the operation of nuclear reactors to 40 years in principle....

The decommissioned plutonium-producing B reactor is seen on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on April 3, 2008, as viewed from a bus taking visitors on a public tour near Richland, in Washington.... The federal government is moving forward with the" cocooning" of eight plutonium production reactors at Hanford that will place them in a state of long-term storage to allow radiation inside to dissipate over a period of decades, until they can be dismantled and buried.... " The cost of trying to dis

At least 10 nuclear reactors are being installed in the country while two reactors in Gujarat's Kakrapar have started generating power commercially, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology was informed on Monday. According to sources, the new nuclear reactors coming up in states like Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana are of 700 MW capacity and will start operating in the next few years. The details of the new nuclear reactors were provided to the members of the Standing Commi

LONDON: A Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc project has raised ￡455mil( US$ 617mil or RM2. 56bil) toward developing small modular nuclear reactors in Britain, with almost half coming from the government. The government has committed ￡210mil( RM1. 18bil) toward developing the small modular rectors, secured by private-sector funding of ￡245mil( RM1. 38bil), according to statements.... That will take forward phase two of the project, which is focused on getting reactor design approval and identifying sites

This photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter on Sept.... 2 unit of Chugoku Electric Power Co.'s nuclear plant in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, became the 17th reactor across a total of 10 nuclear plants nationwide to pass stricter safety standards introduced after the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011.... It is a boiling water reactor, the same type as those installed at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant....

A combination of photos of candidates of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for the upcoming presidential election speaks during a joint news conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo, Sept.... Former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and former communications minister Sanae Takaichi also said Japan should in the meantime restart its currently idled nuclear reactors in order to maintain a stable and feasible power supply source.... " I will eventually seek technologies such as SMRs or nucl

The current deadline to reliably send electricity to the grid came after a leaking turbine seal forced another month’s wait.... The reactor was producing power at 98% of capacity on Friday, according to Nuclear Regulatory Commission records. Two older reactors are also operating at Plant Vogtle. Georgia Power said Friday that it’s making final preparations to load the 157 fuel assemblies into the reactor core.... The company says unit 4 is supposed to reach commercial operation by March 2024.I