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GE Vernova Hitachi's BWRX-300 small modular reactor design appears suitable for construction in the UK, regulators have concluded following Step 2 of the Generic Design Assessment. The regulators said there are "no fundamental safety, security, safeguards or environmental protection shortfalls with the design that could prevent its deployment in Great Britain".

 

The government has "only just begun when it comes to our ambitions for new nuclear in the UK", ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Secretary Ed Miliband told the Nuclear Industry Association's Nuclear 2025 conference in London. He said the government has plans for further reactors - both large and small - and has initiated a search for suitable sites.
 

US private fusion energy company TAE Technologies and the UK Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Authority have announced a bilateral and reciprocal investment commitment to commercialise TAE's proprietary particle accelerator technology for the global market.
 

Framatome has completed the manufacture of the reactor pressure vessel for the second of two EPR units being built at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Somerset, UK. The first two of four steam generators for the unit have also been completed.
 

The Czech Republic's ÚJV Řež has signed a memorandum of understanding with UK-based Rolls-Royce SMR "aimed at deepening further cooperation in the implementation of small modular reactor technology in the Czech Republic and abroad".
 

A series of "radical, root-cause solutions" is required to simplify the UK's nuclear regulatory system in order to speed up the construction of new nuclear projects at a lower cost and on time, an independent taskforce has concluded.
 

More than 15,000 tonnes of crushed concrete generated from the demolition of the turbine hall at the shutdown Sizewell A nuclear power plant in Suffolk, England, is to be used in the construction of the new Sizewell C plant.
 

A GBP9.9 million (USD12.9 million) investment from Innovate UK, backed by a further GBP8.9 million from industry, will support a major project to develop cutting-edge new treatments for cancer using lead-212 derived from used nuclear fuel.
 

The UK government has announced that Wylfa on the island of Anglesey, North Wales, will host three Rolls-Royce small modular reactors. It said the site - where a Magnox plant is being decommissioned - could potentially host up to eight SMRs.