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Second Batch of Nuclear Fuel for Bangladesh's Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Arrives at Shahjalal International Airport

Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant construction recently reached a key milestone, as a Russian cargo plane carrying a new batch of enriched uranium nuclear fuel landed smoothly late Friday night at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Officials confirmed that the nuclear fuel, under tight security escort, has departed for transport to the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project site in the Pabna region. M. Rashiduzzaman Millat, State Minister of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism of Bangladesh...

2026-10-04

Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics Makes Important Progress in Electrolyzer Design and Electrocatalytic Materials Research

Recently, the National Key Laboratory of Thorium-based Nuclear Fission Energy at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made important progress in the fields of membrane-divided electrolyzer design and electrocatalytic materials. Researchers combined electrolyzer reactor design with electrocatalytic material innovation to develop an anion exchange membrane-divided H-type electrolysis system based on nonporous metal-organic framework (MOFs) materials, achieving efficient electrochemical recovery of uranium resources and complete degradation of organic ether solvents in uranium-containing organic ether wastewater. The related results, titled "Nonporous Metal-Organic Framework Enables Record-High Uranium Extraction and Complete Diglyme Degra...

2026-09-30

Taiwan's Nuclear Safety Commission Completes Compliance Review of Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant "Restart Plan"

On September 24, 2026, the Nuclear Safety Commission of the Taiwan region of China officially completed and approved the review of the restart plan for the Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant (the Third Nuclear Power Plant). The Nuclear Safety Commission (referred to as the NSC), Taiwan's nuclear safety regulatory body, officially announced the completion and approval of the review of the restart plan submitted by Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) for the Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant (the Third Nuclear Power Plant). This move marks a key step for the Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant units in the contest between decommissioning and shutdown versus evaluation for life extension. However, the NSC emphasized that this approval only represents recognition of the plan's content at the current stage. For the units to actually restart, they must still pass multiple stringent engineering self-inspections, on-site reviews, and statutory approval procedures. The NSC...

2026-09-30

Bechtel and Westinghouse Consortium Formally Signs EPC Turnkey Contract for Poland's First Nuclear Power Plant, Construction Scheduled to Begin in 2027

A consortium comprising U.S. engineering giant Bechtel and nuclear technology supplier Westinghouse Electric Company has formally signed an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract with Poland's state-owned nuclear power company Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) to advance the construction of Poland's first-ever commercial nuclear power plant. The nuclear project is located in Choczewo on the Baltic Sea coast in the Pomerania province of northern Poland. PEJ officially stated that the site is planned to host 3 Westinghouse AP1000 Generation III+ advanced pressurized water reactor units, with a designed total installed capacity of 3750 megawatts (3750 MWe), and the first unit is expected...

2026-09-30

State Nuclear Electric Power Planning Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. convened the first Party Committee (enlarged) meeting of 2026 and the second meeting of the 2026 Safety Production and Emergency Management Committee

On September 28, State Nuclear Electric Power Planning Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. convened the first Party Committee (enlarged) meeting of 2026 and the second meeting of the 2026 Safety Production and Emergency Management Committee. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the meeting thoroughly studied and implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and directives on safety production, fully implemented the relevant work requirements of the Group Company's Safety Production Deployment Enhancement and Third Quarter Safety Risk Control Meeting, comprehensively reviewed the work of the first three quarters, scientifically assessed the current safety development situation, and arranged and deployed key tasks for safety production and ecological environmental protection in the next stage. Wang Chengli, Secretary of the Company's Party Committee, Chairman, and Director of the Safety Committee...

2026-09-30

Standard Technical Specifications for Passive Nuclear Power Plants, Chiefly Compiled Under the Leadership of Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute, Officially Released

Recently, the National Nuclear Safety Administration officially released the Standard Technical Specifications for Passive Nuclear Power Plants and its explanatory document, chiefly compiled under the leadership of Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute, aiming to promote the standardization and normalization of technical specifications for passive nuclear power plants, continuously improve the nuclear safety supervision and management system, and further enhance the operational safety level of China's nuclear power plants. Based on the framework and format, screening criteria, and other foundations for technical specifications established by the Special Working Group on Technical Specification Optimization of the National Nuclear Safety Administration, Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute, targeting the passive design characteristics of AP and CAP series nuclear power plants and fully incorporating the operating experience and safety regulatory practices of China's passive nuclear power plants, completed the compilation of China's first standard technical specifications and explanatory document for passive nuclear power plants...

2026-09-30

Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 of Qinshan Phase II Completes 218 Refueling Outage

At 18:30 on September 29, Unit 2 of Qinshan Phase II was successfully connected to the grid, marking the official completion of the 218 refueling outage. During this outage, more than 5,300 tasks were completed, mainly including the PSR weakness modification for prevention of boron misdilution, addition of automatic primary coolant makeup and residual heat removal eddy current detection functions, excitation system modification for the B-train emergency diesel generator, disassembly and inspection of the turbine-generator, annual inspection of the main transformer and station service transformer, replacement of No. 2 and No. 3 seals of the No. 2 main coolant pump, disassembly and inspection of the No. 1 charging pump, modification of the nuclear island switchboards, condenser cleaning and eddy current inspection, and optimization of the pipe supports where the safety injection system safety valves are located. These important tasks have laid a solid foundation for the safe and stable operation of the unit in the next fuel cycle. All outage personnel, under the...

2026-09-29

Shanghai Electric Delivers the First Domestic Steam Generator Water Chamber Head Forging for the "Guohe One"

On September 28, the first domestic water chamber head forging for the Guohe One steam generator, manufactured by Shanghai Electric, completed acceptance and was officially shipped at Shanghai Electric Shangzhong Casting and Forging Co., Ltd. The water chamber head is a key pressure-bearing core component of the Guohe One steam generator, with a single-piece net weight of 90 tons. It features a complex structure with ultra-large dimensions, ultra-thick cross-sections, and irregular multi-nozzle geometry, making it the world's largest nuclear power irregular complex-structure large forging, with manufacturing difficulty far exceeding that of similar products for existing domestic nuclear power reactor types. Facing this world-class extreme manufacturing challenge, Shanghai Electric concentrated its efforts to successively break through 500-ton-class ultra-pure low-segregation large steel ingot manufacturing, integrated forging forming technology for multi-nozzle spherical heads,...

2026-09-29

Rosatom Manufactures Innovative Equipment for Akkuyu NPP Unit 2 in Turkey

According to reports, Atommash, the machine-building plant of Rosatom in the Rostov Region, has completed the manufacture of a full set of high-tech equipment for the turbine building of Akkuyu NPP Unit 2. This is the first time Atommash has produced a Separator-Steam Superheater (SPP), which is used to ensure the operation of the turbine unit. Rostov Region Governor Yury Slyusar and Igor Kotov, head of Rosatom's machine-building division, attended the equipment completion ceremony. Kotov said, on the occasion of the plant's 50th anniversary...

2026-09-29

Pakistan Denies Overflight Permission, Bangladesh's Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Fuel Transport Blocked

Recently, the nuclear fuel transport for Unit 2 of Bangladesh's Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) was delayed because Pakistan did not approve overflight permission. Faqir Mahbub Anam, Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Bangladesh, stated that the chartered flight was originally scheduled to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on September 24, but could not proceed because it was not granted permission to enter Pakistani airspace. It is reported that the route usually passes through Kazakhstan, Turkmenis...

2026-09-29

Uzbekistan and Turkey Discuss Cooperation on Civil Construction and Infrastructure Works for the First Nuclear Power Plant

The Uzbek Atomic Energy Development Agency (Uzatom) and a delegation from Turkey's large engineering and construction group Özaltın Holding held high-level working talks in Tashkent on September 25, focusing on the feasibility of multi-faceted engineering cooperation in the construction of Uzbekistan's first nuclear power plant project. It is understood that the talks were chaired by Azim Axmedxadjayev, Director of Uzatom, and Muzaffer Özdemir, CEO of Özaltın Holding, led the delegation. The two sides held discussions centered on the full-cycle construction...

2026-09-28

Uranium Fuel Air Delivery for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 in Bangladesh Delayed

Recently, the first batch of uranium nuclear fuel transport cargo flights for Unit 2 of Bangladesh's first nuclear power facility—the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP)—was forced to be suspended, resulting in the postponement of the originally scheduled delivery. The batch of nuclear fuel was originally planned to arrive by air on September 24 at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Faqir Mahbub Anam, Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Bangladesh, stated that the cargo charter flight carrying the uranium fuel was originally scheduled to land on the 24th, but because it was not granted permission to enter Pakistani airspace, the flight could not proceed as scheduled, and the specific reason why Pakistan has not yet approved the airspace permit remains unclear. Anam added that the Russian side has provided a new timetable, and it is expected that this batch of uranium fuel will arrive in Bangladesh in the first week of October.

2026-09-28

Bangladesh and the United States Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Strategic Civil Nuclear Cooperation

Bangladesh and the United States formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on strategic civil nuclear cooperation in New York, aimed at deepening strategic collaboration between the two countries in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Rehan Asad, Science and Technology Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, and Jacob Helberg, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective sides. The signing of this agreement comes at a time when Bangladesh is actively pursuing a strategic transition to expand and diversify its long-term energy supply structure. Currently, the country is relying on Russian technology to advance its first nuclear power plant—Rooppur...

2026-09-27

First Light Fusion's Low-Cost Fusion Compression Technology Achieves Experimental Validation, Driving Source Cost Expected to Drop by an Order of Magnitude

UK commercial fusion innovator First Light Fusion has announced that its independently developed pulse power facility M3 (M3 pulse power facility) has successfully completed a series of proof-of-principle experiments, formally validating the core fuel compression physics mechanism of its proprietary fusion pathway FLARE (Fusion via Low-power Assembly and Rapid Excitation). The experiments confirmed that, relying on a precisely designed Multi-layered liner, fusion fuel can be effectively compressed to a high-density state using a driver with a more streamlined configuration and lower peak power. The core design logic of the FLARE technology pathway...

2026-09-24

Poland's SGE Advances Plan to Build 14 BWRX-300 SMRs in the UK

Polish energy development company SGE (formerly Synthos Green Energy) is advancing a project to deploy a reactor fleet consisting of 14 BWRX-300 small modular reactors (SMRs) in the UK. The project joint team stated that it has full confidence in the commercial economic model and the complete supply chain delivery capability of the plan. SGE formally submitted its project application in July under the UK's Advanced Nuclear Framework. The fleet's total planned installed capacity reaches 4.2 gigawatts (GW), equivalent to 11% of the UK's current total electricity demand. SGE has formed an engineering and technology alliance that includes Samsung C&T (Samsung C&T)...

2026-09-24