Nuclear Reactor

The logo of Meta Platforms' business group is seen in Brussels, Belgium December 6, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo
Tech

Meta seeks nuclear power developers for reactors to start in early 2030s

The company wants to add 1 to 4 gigawatts of new US nuclear generation capacity starting in the early 2030s, it said in a release. A typical US nuclear plant has a capacity of about 1 gigawatt

The fourth generation Shidaowan plant in China's northern Shandong province is designed to use fuel more efficiently and improve its economics, safety and environmental footprint. Photo: Collected
China

China launches world's first fourth-generation nuclear reactor

A North Korean nuclear plant is seen before demolishing a cooling tower (R) in Yongbyon, in this photo taken June 27, 2008 and released by Kyodo. North Korea is to restart the mothballed Yongbyon nuclear reactor that has been closed since 2007 in a move that could produce more plutonium for nuclear weapons as well as for domestic electricity production, its KCNA news agency said on April 2, 2013. As well as restarting the 5MW reactor at Yongbyon, the North's only known source of plutonium for its nuclear weapons programme, KCNA said a uranium enrichment plant would also be put back into operation, a move that could give it a second path to the bomb. Picture taken June 27, 2008. Mandatory Credit. REUTERS/Kyodo
World+Biz

North Korea halts nuclear reactor, likely to extract bomb fuel

A view of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna's Ishwardi upazila. Photo: Archives
Energy

Rosatom to build a research reactor in Bangladesh

Kansai Electric Power’s Mihama nuclear power station in Mihama Town, Fukui prefecture, on 23 May. Photographer: Naoki Ueda/Yomiuri Shimbun/AP Photo
World+Biz

Japan allows nuclear plants to operate beyond 60 years

The Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao, Taiwan.Photographer: Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images
World+Biz

Taiwan plans to keep its nuclear power plants on emergency standby

Number of nuclear reactors under construction
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Number of nuclear reactors under construction

A rendering of the entrance of a Small Modular Reactor facility that Rolls-Royce SMR hopes to have operational by the end of the decade is seen in this handout render provided by Rolls-Royce SMR on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. A global search for alternative sources to Russian energy during the war in Ukraine has refocused attention on smaller, easier-to-build nuclear power stations that proponents say they could provide a cheaper, more efficient alternative to older model mega-plants but detractors warn of heightened risks including the disposal of highly radioactive wave and the specter of nuclear weapons proliferation.
World+Biz

With risks, small nuclear reactors emerge as energy option

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks during a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Fontelles, and European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson at the State Department in Washington, US, 7 February 2022. Andrew Harnik/Pool via REUTERS
World+Biz

Ukraine nuclear reactors being safely shut down - US energy official

Bill Gates. File Photo: Collected
World+Biz

Japan to help build Bill Gates' high-tech nuclear reactor in Wyoming -Yomiuri

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World+Biz

Bill Gates' next generation nuclear reactor to be built in Wyoming

File photo: UNB
World+Biz

Israel retaliates after Syrian missile lands near nuclear reactor

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Energy

Russia ships reactor vessel, steam generator for first unit of Rooppur NPP