July 2022

South Korea's industry ministry said on Tuesday it planned to increase nuclear power's contribution to the country's energy mix to 30 percent or more by 2030, up from 27 percent in 2021, and pledged to resume work on two stalled reactors. South Korea's new president, Yoon Seok-yeol, has rejected the idea of phasing out nuclear …

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Foreign and Trade Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Friday that the construction phase of the PaksII nuclear power plant could start in September after talks with Rosatom head Alexey Likhachev in Istanbul. He said all outstanding issues had been resolved ahead of the new phase. Rosatom is providing the necessary documents for four more permits …

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Framatome of France and Bruce Power of Canada have been awarded a contract to provide system-wide decontamination services for units 3 and 4 of the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant as part of the Plant's Major Parts Replacement (MCR) program. Using a unique chemical decontaminating technology developed globally, Famatone will localize this technology for use by …

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Korea Hydro & Nuclear Corporation (KHNP) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kazakhstan Nuclear Power Station (KNPP), an arm of the government's Samruk-Kazyna State Welfare Fund, to cooperate on the introduction of nuclear power in Kazakhstan. The MOU was signed on June 28 during a visit to Seoul by a Kazakh delegation led …

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