NEI Catch-Up Newsletter - 22nd November 2023

Welcome to another weeks LinkedIn newsletter from the team at Nuclear Engineering International . Some great project news from all around the world and plenty to cover.

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Construction schedule agreed for Hungary’s Paks II

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade Péter Szijjártó said the construction phase of the Paks NPP expansion project is underway. At the signing of the construction timetable for the coming years, he told a joint press conference with State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom" Director General Alexei Likhachev that the new units would begin operation in the 2030s. “We will be able to connect the new NPP to the grid at the start of the next decade,” he said.

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EDF given more time to upgrade its 900 MWe reactor fleet

French nuclear safety regulator Autorité de s?reté nucléaire (ASN) has agreed to give EDF more time to complete safety upgrades at its 32 900 MWe nuclear power reactors in operation at the Blayais, Bugey, Chinon, Cruas-Meysse, Dampierre, Gravelines, Saint-Laurent and Tricastin NPPs. These include France’s oldest nuclear units, which began operation between 1977 and 1988.

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Former Zion NPP site released for unrestricted use

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has released for “unrestricted use” most of the land on and around the area where the Zion Nuclear Power Station once operated. This means that any residual radiation is below NRC’s limits and there will be no further regulatory controls imposed by the NRC for that portion of the property. Only the plant’s used fuel storage facility, covering about five acres, will remain under NRC licence and oversight.

Norway considers SMR for Halden

Norway’s Halden municipality, Norsk Kjernekraft and ?stfold Energi are collaborating to investigate Halden as the possible location for a NPP using small modular reactor (SMR) technology.

The three parties have established a new company –?Halden Kjernekraft?–?to investigate the possibilities of producing electricity using nuclear power in Halden. The company will initially carry out investigations and surveys as a decision-making basis for future development.

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