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France's EDF has made an offer to the Polish government to build as many as six EPR units. A project of that size would decarbonise 40% of the country's electricity and avoid up to 55 million tons of CO2 per year, EDF said. The "non-binding preliminary offer" represents a range of options for Poland. It details the engineering, procurement and construction that would be needed for four to six EPR units, at either two or three sites. The EPR units would produce 1650 MWe each.

Polish state takes over nuclear company in preparation for NPP construction The Polish state treasury has taken full ownership of PGE EJ1, the company charged with managing the country’s planned first nuclear power station, for about €114m in what was said to be “an element in preparation for realisation” of the Polish nuclear power programme. Polish power company Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) said on 26 March that it had sold to its shares in PGE EJ1 to the State Treassure, following several months of negotiations. The sales contract was signed by all entities holding shares in PG...

Barakah Unit 2 operating licence issued, power potential increases 09 Mar 2021 Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter The UAE’s Nawah Energy Company (Nawah) of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) was issued on Tuesday morning its operating licence for the Unit 2 reactor of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant (Barakah) by the country’s independent nuclear power plant regulator, the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR). The issuance of the operating licence comes 13 months after the FANR issued the operating licence for the Unit 1 reactor in Feb. 2020 which was...

China now ‘a country that has truly mastered independent third-generation nuclear power technology’, CNNC party chief says.