Constellation Energy, a US-based carbon-free energy producer, will invest $800 million in two Illinois nuclear power plants – Braidwood and Byron to increase their clean energy output. The investment proposal follows Constellation Energy’s announcement of substantial development at its clean hydrogen project at the Nine Mile Point Generating Station in upstate New York, and the […]
Canadian uranium production company Cameco, Brookfield Renewable Partners and its institutional partners have jointly signed an agreement to acquire nuclear power company Westinghouse Electric in a deal worth $7.87bn. The US-based nuclear energy company will be bought from Brookfield Business Partners and its institutional partners. Currently, Westinghouse Electric services nearly half the nuclear power generation […]
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) said that it has bagged its largest-ever order, which is worth INR 10,800 crores ($1.48 billion), from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL). Under the order, BHEL will be responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of turbine island for half a dozen pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWRs), […]
Godrej & Boyce has bagged an INR 468 crores contract from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for steam generators for the indigenously developed 700MW pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWR) to be set up by the latter. The order was won by Godrej Process Equipment, one of the 14 businesses of Godrej & Boyce, […]
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has prevailed in an open competitive bidding process for the fleet mode tender floated by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for the 6×700 MW Turbine Island Package Projects with a bid of around INR108 billion ($1.49 billion). The company said that it has retained its leadership position in […]
Nawah Energy Company, a joint venture between the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), has commissioned Unit 1 of the 5.6GW Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in the Al Dhafrah Region in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Barakah nuclear power project, which has an estimated construction cost of $24.4 billion, will have […]
Rosatom announced that the 70MW Akademic Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant (Akademic Lomonosov FNPP) in the Russian Far East has entered fully commissioned. According to the Russian state-owned nuclear energy company, the floating nuclear power plant began generating electricity to the isolated grid of the Chaun-Bilibino energy center of Chukotka in December 2019. Since then, […]
ASE (Rosatom State Corporation Engineering Division) has completed the supplies of the main equipment for the third unit of the 6GW Kudankulam nuclear power plant (Kudankulam NPP) in India. The Kudankulam power plant is located in Koodankulam, Tirunelveli district in the southern Indian state Tamil Nadu. The Indian nuclear power plant, which will feature a total […]
Nuclear power industry news : BHEL has won an INR 4,400 crore contract from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for erecting the third and fourth units of the 6,000MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu. In this connection, the state-owned BHEL will work on the erection of the two 1GW turbine generator […]
Nuclear power industry news : Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has scrapped the 2.7GW Wylfa Newydd nuclear power project in the UK after failing to secure the necessary project funding. The Wylfa Newydd project was being developed by its subsidiary Horizon Nuclear Power at the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales. Hitachi suspended development of the nuclear […]