Category: Nuclear
Kenya’s first nuclear power plant faces opposition from coastal residents
An area has been set aside in Kenya’s southern county of Kilifi for the construction of the country’s first nuclear facility. The project on the coast of the Indian Ocean is expected to be fully operational by 2034. But it has faced fierce opposition. On Friday (Oct. 11), a group of activists and environmentalists took…
US declassifies nuke numbers
The United States had 3,748 nuclear warheads in stock as of September 2023, according a new ‘fact sheet’ put out by the Department of Energy. The tally includes both active (maintained in operational, ready-to-use configuration) and inactive (stocked at a depot with their tritium trigger components removed) warheads. The US began to stockpile nukes in…
Africa’s sole nuclear power station secures 20-year extension
The operating license for Unit 1 of South Africa’s 2-unit Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant has been extended following the implementation of safety improvements. The decision follows a request by state-owned utility Eskom for an extension in 2021, which was granted by the National Nuclear Regulator. Unit 2’s extension application is under review, with its current…
EDF Suspends Small Nuclear Reactor Project Due to Technical Complexities
The French company EDF has decided to suspend its small nuclear reactor project. The reason is the problems arising from the excessive technical complexity of this device. French energy giant EDF has suspended its NUWARD small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) project. This decision was made due to the high level of technical complexity of the…
Russia and Mozambique discuss activation of cooperation in the power industry
The topic was discussed during a meeting between the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Mineral Resources (Rosnedra) Evgeny Petrov and the Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources of Mozambique Carlos Mesquita. “At the meeting they discussed issues of activating the interaction of the [Russian hydroelectric company] RusHydro Group with the government…
Who will benefit from booming demand for uranium?
A scramble for uranium has developed after the Ukraine conflict and short-sighted Western sanctions on Russia exposed Europe’s dependency on Russian oil and gas, The Economist has argued. About 10% of the world’s electricity is generated from uranium in nuclear reactors. But the problem is that Kazakhstan, that boasts a close mutually-beneficial relationship with Russia,…
Nuclear energy race: US yielding to Russia and China
Although a massive US nuclear power plant in Georgia is finally complete, the facility “might be the last of its kind,” the Wall Street Journal has reported. The development comes as the US faces the closure of at least 25 nuclear plants, in another sign that America is losing the nuclear energy race to Russia…
Who is still conducting nuclear tests?
Fifty years ago, on July 3, the Soviet Union and the US signed the Treaty on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests. The subsequent Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996 never came into force. Eight of the 44 countries that had nuclear potential and technology at the time – Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, China,…
Ethiopia’s agreement with Rosatom on infrastructure construction is a significant step toward harnessing nuclear energy, technology minister says
The agreement was concluded in July 2023 on the sidelines of the 2nd Russia-Africa Summit. Belete Molla explained the importance of cooperation with the Russian state nuclear company for the African country’s development goals at a meeting with a Chinese delegation. Representatives of the China National Nuclear Corporation met with the Ethiopian minister to discuss…
Argentine President Halts Funding for Nuclear Power
🇦🇷 Argentine President Javier Milay has effectively halted funding for nuclear power. The budget of the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) is set at around 100 billion pesos ($114 million), despite annual inflation approaching 300%, meaning that this amount was only enough to cover expenses until this month or next month. Accordingly, work on CAREM…
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